Humor

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Humor is a property of certain speech, writings, figures, persons, entities and concepts that have it. Humor is an ineffable quality which produces certain physiological and intellectual effects in human beings.

1.  Sources of Humor

Humor can come from many sources such as deviation from what is expected (irony, puns etc), the bizarre, bodily functions, violation of social taboos, misportrayal of well known figures and institutions and understatement in language ^{[Citation Needed]}. The distinction between these and other categories is somewhat blurry and subject to dispute.

Increasing amounts of humor have originated in discussions of technical systems, particularly on fora, newsgroups and mailing-lists, prime examples of this are a section in the manual for FreeBSD UNIX, and the comic strip User friendly.org.

Parodies and Satires are types of humor, often presented in textual or audio/video form which expose unspoken truths about well known institutions, artistic styles, events or persons. For example this article is a style parody of a Wikipedia article^{[Excuse me?]}.

Existential Humor →

2.  Criticism of Humor

Humor can be dangerous because people can fail to recognize it as such and take it seriously, accordingly strong taboos exist against insertion of overt humor into judicial, legal and industrial resources--although this has happened from time to time to alleviate boredom^{[Citation Needed]} including on The Vistua Network, for example the old AUP.

Nerd Humor →

Various types of humor may be disturbing or terrifying to some, particularly humor which taps existential angst, primordial fears, psycho-sexual conditions, or which is too similar to real incidents that occurred in such persons life.

Roman Catholic Nuns have argued against humor for centuries, in spite of being inherently humorous themselves, a fact they steadfastly deny. Although the Holy See has not issued any particular religious rulings against humor it should be noted that The Pope is either the least or the most humorous individual known to man.

Failed attempts at humor can cause embarrassment.

3.  In Popular Culture

Humor has long^{[Citation Needed]} enjoyed a major role in popular culture.

• On late-night television talk shows various people are humorous
• In Doctor Who there are also jokes.
• Star Trek is also funny, usually by accident.
• This Internet is extremely humorous, on occasion.
• Winston Churchill was humorous in so many ways.
• Adam-7 is humorous.

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