Anti-joke

Anti-humor and anti-jokesPaul Lewis, "Joke and Anti-Joke: Three Jews and a Blindfold", The Journal of Popular Culture, 1987, Vol. 21, Issue 1, pp. 63-73 is a kind of humor based on the surprise factor of absence of an expected joke or of a punch line in a narration which is set up as a joke. This kind of anticlimax is similar to that of the shaggy dog story Warren A. Shibles, Humor Reference Guide: A Comprehensive Classification and Analysis (Hardcover) 1998 ISBN 0809320975 In fact, some researchers see the "shaggy dog story" as a type of anti-joke.John Henderson, "Writing Down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry" (1999) ISBN 0198150776, p. 218

An example of anti-humor is "Why did the chicken cross the road?" with the answer, "To get to the other side." Another involves any seemingly humorous setup leading to the non-sequitur "punchline" of "No soap, radio."

A form of anti-humor is poking fun at bad humor by the way of parody. An example is Jim\'s Journal, a comic strip by Scott Dikkers, co-founder of The Onion. Alternative comedy, among its other aspects, parodies the traditional idea of the joke as a form of humor.Andrew Stott (2005) "Comedy", ISBN 0415299330, p. 119 Andy Kaufman saw himself as a practitioner of anti-humor. Other comedians known for their anti-humor are Ted Chippington, Jimmy Carr, Neil Hamburger, and Bill Bailey.

See also

• Anti-art
• Dadaism
• Meta-joke
• Nonsense verse

References

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