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'''Anti-Humor''' is about ''intentionally'' avoiding a punchline. Certainly not all '''Anti-Humor''' ends up being funny, but it should be clear that the writer is trying to create humor from avoiding a punchline or humorous twist. For example, when [[Back to the Future (film)|Biff Tannen]] says "that's as funny as a screen door on a battleship" he's not trying for '''Anti-Humor''', he is simply screwing up the traditional punchline. |
'''Anti-Humor''' is about ''intentionally'' avoiding a punchline. Certainly not all '''Anti-Humor''' ends up being funny, but it should be clear that the writer is trying to create humor from avoiding a punchline or humorous twist. For example, when [[Back to the Future (film)|Biff Tannen]] says "that's as funny as a screen door on a battleship" he's not trying for '''Anti-Humor''', he is simply screwing up the traditional punchline. |
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Compare/contrast [[Shaggy Dog Story]] where the humor comes from a tediously long story being used to set up a weak punchline. Both types of humor stand traditional wisdom about humor on its head. Could be the source of humor in a [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] scenario. Compare [[Bait and Switch]]. Contrast [[So Unfunny It's Funny]] where the humor is unintentionally bad but so bad it's funny. |
Compare/contrast [[Shaggy Dog Story]] where the humor comes from a tediously long story being used to set up a weak punchline. Both types of humor stand traditional wisdom about humor on its head. Could be the source of humor in a [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] scenario. Compare [[Bait and Switch]]. Compare also [[The Comically Serious]] when it's a serious ''character'' put into a humorous context. Contrast [[So Unfunny It's Funny]] where the humor is unintentionally bad but so bad it's funny. Not to be confused with [[Ha Ha Only Serious]]. |
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== [[Comic Books]] == |
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⚫ | {{quote|I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor... [[Tomato Surprise|I am Pagliacci]]." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. }} |
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⚫ | * Occurs early on in the ''[[Father Ted]]'' Christmas special when Ted finds a baby [[Door Step Baby|left on the parish doorstep]]. Before Ted can bring the baby in the mother appears, takes the baby from his hands, and heads off to leave the infant with someone else. Ted muses on the [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious hi-jinks]] the priests and the baby would have gotten up to, but stops when Dougal reminds him it wouldn't be funny. |
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⚫ | * One song of Italian band Elio e le Storie Tese was entirely based on this kind of humour. First of all, the jokes were more than deadpan, since they were told by a vocal synthesizer. Then, among the "normal" jokes, it featured gems such as: "An Englishman, a Frenchman and a German are on a plane. The plane crashes and they die". |
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== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] == |
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* Perhaps the best-known joke in the English language is an example: "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!" Few people realize it now, but it was a subversion of older iterations of the joke. Most people hear it before they are old enough to have come to expect the typical conventions of a joke (like a punch line), so the joke is simply [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|unfunny]]. |
* Perhaps the best-known joke in the English language is an example: "Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side!" Few people realize it now, but it was a subversion of older iterations of the joke. Most people hear it before they are old enough to have come to expect the typical conventions of a joke (like a punch line), so the joke is simply [[Seinfeld Is Unfunny|unfunny]]. |
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* [[Bill Bailey]] is fond of these. |
* [[Bill Bailey]] is fond of these. |
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{{quote|What's green, has four legs and could kill you if it fell out of a tree? |
{{quote|What's green, has four legs and could kill you if it fell out of a tree? |
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A pool table. }} |
A pool table. }} |
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== [[Web Animation]] == |
== [[Web Animation]] == |
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* One clip in [[Asdfmovie]] has a guy pressing a button that reads [[Schmuck Bait|"POINTLESS BUTTON: Warning, pointless"]]. It does absolutely nothing. |
* One clip in [[Asdfmovie]] has a guy pressing a button that reads [[Schmuck Bait|"POINTLESS BUTTON: Warning, pointless"]]. It does absolutely nothing. |
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== Webcomics == |
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* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0600.html strip #600]. |
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0600.html strip #600]. |
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* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130905191843/http://morningglory.excision-gaming.com/index.php Morning Glory]'' (NSFW) |
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130905191843/http://morningglory.excision-gaming.com/index.php Morning Glory]'' (NSFW) |
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* ''[[Unwinder's Tall Comics]]''. On [https://web.archive.org/web/20140220153454/http://tallcomics.com/?id=107 this page], Unwinder's box of rejected ideas includes "Normal Al", who parodies [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]] by sucking all the humor out. Basically, Normal Al plays straight covers of the songs that Weird Al parodies, and rewrites Weird Al's original songs with completely serious lyrics. |
* ''[[Unwinder's Tall Comics]]''. On [https://web.archive.org/web/20140220153454/http://tallcomics.com/?id=107 this page], Unwinder's box of rejected ideas includes "Normal Al", who parodies [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]] by sucking all the humor out. Basically, Normal Al plays straight covers of the songs that Weird Al parodies, and rewrites Weird Al's original songs with completely serious lyrics. |
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* [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/jokes-with-realistic.php This] [[Something Awful]] article. |
* [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/comedy-goldmine/jokes-with-realistic.php This] [[Something Awful]] article. |
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* [http://averagecats.com/ Average Cats] is a gallery of Anti-Humor [[LOLcats]]. |
* [http://averagecats.com/ Average Cats] is a gallery of Anti-Humor [[LOLcats]]. |
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* [http://anti-joke.com/ Anti-Joke.] This is the whole point of this site. |
* [http://anti-joke.com/ Anti-Joke.] This is the whole point of this site. |
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* In ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19213_7-animals-that-are-evolving-right-before-our-eyes.html 7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes] |
* In ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_19213_7-animals-that-are-evolving-right-before-our-eyes.html 7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes] |
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{{quote|'''Q:''' What did the elephant say to the poacher? |
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'''A:''' Dear God in heaven, please don't kill me for my ivory. |
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Sorry about that. Sometimes we get "joke" mixed up with "tragic imagined dialogue that could be happening at this very second if elephants had the power of speech."}} |
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== [[Western Animation]] == |
== [[Western Animation]] == |