What is Humour?
[[File:Laughter 2 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|[[Laugh]]ing or [[smile|smiling]] often show a sense of humor and that the person is [[happy]].]] '''Humour''' or '''humor''' ({{lang-el|Χιούμορ}}) is the way that some experiences can make people [[laugh]] or feel [[happy]]. Most people are able to be amused (laugh or smile at something funny) and have a '''sense of humor'''. You can use [[pun]]s with words that sound similar but have different meanings, or a word that has two meanings.<ref name=JournalofHumor>{{cite journal|url=http://afflatus.ucd.ie/Papers/Journal_of_Humor_Research_2006_trumping.pdf|title=The Cognitive Mechanisms of Adversarial Humor|journal=Humor International Journal of Humor Research|volume=19|issue=3|pages=305–339|author=Tony Veale, Kurt Feyaerts, Geert Brone|year=2006|doi=10.1515/HUMOR.2006.016|s2cid=1821223|access-date=2010-12-27|archive-date=2011-07-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721132659/http://afflatus.ucd.ie/Papers/Journal_of_Humor_Research_2006_trumping.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> Other examples of humor are [[satire]], saying yes or no when it is not expected, and using different kinds of [[logic]]. People of different ages and [[culture]]s can find different things humorous.<ref name=JournalofHumor/> For example, adults may like [[satire]], which children could find hard to understand.<ref>Seth Benedict Graham ''[http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-11032003-192424/unrestricted/grahamsethb_etd2003.pdf A cultural analysis of the Russo-Soviet Anekdot] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116083634/http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-11032003-192424/unrestricted/grahamsethb_etd2003.pdf |date=2013-01-16 }}'' 2003 p.13</ref><ref>Bakhtin, Mikhail. ''Rabelais and His World'' [1941, 1965]. Trans. Hélène Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana University Press</ref> A comedian is someone who is paid to make people laugh. Humor is describing things in a funny way, having the ability to make the jokes. ==Related pages== *[[Comedy]] *[[Joke]] == Refere