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Ex: Something Borrowed [] The tone of this movie is facetious, and the ending is ironic. In __Something Borrowed__ the popular out going girl gets the “hunk” that her best friend, the smart quiet girl, is in love with. By the end of the movie the “hunk” leaves the popular girl and goes with the quiet smart best friend. This is funny because of the irony of the situation. The roles reversed and the “good girl” won while the “bad girl” lost her man. This is relatable to some audiences and a humorous feeling to that audience.
 * Inversion/Reversal—**When characters or concepts shift positions of power or identification.

Ex: [] When Achmed the Dead Terrorist says, “It’s just a flesh wound,” but really he has no flesh at all. The tone of this example is comical. When saying that something is not as bad as it really is when the reality of the situation is actually a more serious situation, it is funny to the viewer. Achmed the Dead Terrorist has no flesh what so ever, he is all bone, and by stating that “it’s just a flesh wound” Achmed is trying to play up the real situation.
 * Understatement—**When the author does not explain or relay the full magnitude of a situation

Ex: [] The tone of this video is very comical. When Will Farrell opens the do to his landlord “Pearl” who is just a toddler little girl the element of surprise is added to the feeling that the audience gets. This is funny because of the unexpected twist of a little girl cursing at an adult is not something that is an everyday occurrence. This twist on a real life situation creates a very comical tone.
 * Surprise—**When something is unexpected, an action or an ending

Ex: The Hangover []
 * Absurdity—**Something that is clearly illogical and obviously wrong.

The tone of this movie is sarcastic and hilarious. Many parts or lines that the actors have in this movie are full of sarcasm. Because of the messed up situation that these three “wolf pack” members—which is already very humorous—the added sarcasm to the plot of the movie creates a very funny tone.

Word Play: Ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUt76HhemUk The tone of this video is playfully mocking. The writer uses the literal meaning of the celebrities names to portray what they do. Wesley Snipes is not just the actor's name but what he does-in the video he is a sniper. This makes the reader look at names more critically than before and instead think of them in their literal sense instead of in just a label sense. The writer is making fun of the names, not only to laugh at their literal sense, but to demonstrate that names have a bigger impact than just a title but also a characterization.
 * Rachael Smith (Word Play to Deviation)**
 * Pun**- using a word with more than one meaning in a specific context

Ex: http://www.fun-with-words.com/oxym_example.html Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- //George Bernard Shaw// The tone of these examples is comical, to prove a point and at the same time contrasting it. A secret cannot be though of as open because it is just that- a secret. The secret part implies something confidentially shared between, usually, only two people. An open secret demonstrates secret knowledge that everyone knows which is the opposite of a secret. Oxymorons serve to demonstrate a paradoxical relationship while enhancing one's understanding of a phrase.
 * Oxymoron**- when two words with contrasting ideas are put together to make a new word

Ex: http://www.i18nguy.com/humor/headlines.html These double entendres exemplify a witty and humorous tone. The phrase "Include Your Children When Baking Cookies" could mean two thing. One being bake cookies with your kids and enjoy togetherness, or bake your kids into cookies then enjoy them. These phrases with more than one meaning demonstrate to the reader that there is a darker, sicker side to seemingly innocent sentences.
 * Double** **Entendre**- when a statement could have more than one meaning

Ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0vVa-5pej4&list=PL4E92925AFC73E424&index=1&feature=plcp When one thinks of The Eagles, the first thing to come to mind is not an African American man looking like a rap artist. In this video the normal concept of the song Hotel California is distorted because someone, who would be generally associated with rap music, sings the song. A deeper level of distortion is achieved when the artist is seen driving down the highway in a desert. When normally one would except to see a rap video take place in a city or club. A distortion affects the reader by making them think outside the box or outside norms and stereotypes.
 * Distortion-** alteration of shape, concept, person, time

Ex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZE67Vw0OYo&feature=related The title of the video makes the audience expect something serious and rather boring to happen, but when the video starts the audience is comically surprised. Instead the video is not about a bigfoot in the animal sense but an actual man's foot caught on tape. This video could also represents a pun because the use of the words "bigfoot" and "tape" have multiple meanings. A deviation affects the viewer by catching them by surprise and changing their train of thought. It serves to refresh the audience to a new and interesting topic, a way in which the audience would not have thought before.
 * Deviation-** to go off topic of off a path

AS WELL AS Are exemplified in the Epic Rap Battles of History. [|Epic Rap Battles of History. Christopher Columbus VS Captain Kirk] WARNING: There is some cursing in this video, but it's the lightest one I could find out of the battles. If you are only mildly offended by cussing, don't watch past 0:53, and if you are only moderately bothered by cuss words, don't watch past 1:13. (Also, die-hard fans of Captain Kirk might not like this because he gets whipped pretty bad.) Otherwise, this video - and the whole series - is quite entertaining.
 * Caricature** --- When one aspect of a person's personality is exaggerated; ludicrously exaggerating the defects or peculiarities of a person
 * Bathos** --- An abrupt transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect; a triteness or triviality in style
 * Tone**: The tone of this video is comical and mocking, the 'opponents' trying to bash each other's infamous faults while propping themselves up. They go about this in a manner which only reinforces stereotypes the viewers had already formed about them. Elaborate costumes and makeup serve to exaggerate certain physical and personality traits of the characters. Also, the opponents are rapping, using rhyme and rhythm to tear each other apart. It is difficult to imagine the idolized, charismatic Captain Kirk, created generations ago, speaking so crudely and out of character. For Columbus, this ridiculous form of fighting is even stranger, since he lived centuries ago and never would have spoken in modern-day vernacular.

Ex: Monty Python and the Holy Grail [|The Knights who say Ni] Note: You do not need to watch past 1:57 to understand the humor.
 * Inherently Funny Words** --- Words that simply make people laugh. There is a belief among some writers and actors that words that start explosively, thus dubbed "Plosives", are funny, such as the letters k, t, and b. Some singers also believe that the sounds of some words do inherently give a subconscious tone of sad, angry, or jolly. (There are arguments against the existence of 'inherently' funny words, because a word's entertainment value is often defined by the context in which it is used. In the example given, the presence of the comical tools Anti-climax and Ridiculous Accents might bolster the effects of the word "ni.")
 * Tone:** The scene starts out with distant laughter and disconcerting music as masked figures ominously appear and multiply in the distance. However, the tension is broken when the 'boss' of the figures presents the cloaked figures as The Knights who say Ni, keepers of the 'sacred' words; "ni, peng, and niiiiiiwong." People almost always laugh at these nonsensical words, and the word "ni" has become a cult-pop-culture reference. Also, the fact that the actors actually give power to the words adds to the ridiculous nature that is Monty Python.

Ex: "What is black, white, and asian?" "A panda bear!" See also: [|Riddles from yahooanswers] However, the "classic" and possibly most well-known riddle is: "What has four legs by morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?" The answer is "Man", who starts out crawling on all fours, then walks on two in his prime, and finally uses a walking staff in his old age.
 * Riddles** --- A puzzling statement or question; a conundrum; a question or statement designed to test a person's ingenuity in discovering its meaning or in answering it
 * Tone:** The first example given is a riddle which frequents the halls of Bear Creek High School, a riddle which is designed to make anyone who does not know the answer sound like a racist. Although several gruesome substitutes can be given, the correct answer is so cute and unexpected and so utterly different from the answerer's guess that it usually procures a laugh from the givers, if not the receivers, of the riddle. Other modern riddles often have to do with graphic and disturbing answers and are sometimes classified as jokes due to their morbid flavors (one such popular theme of this riddle genre is "babies in the trash can/microwave/oven"). Riddles of olde, like the last example given, have to do more with the deciphering of symbols and decoding of metaphors than with insulting the answerer. However, in all versions of riddles, the cleverness and deep/open thinking which must be employed to solve the riddle have delighted generations of human beings, nicknamed "the thinking... [and] ...laughing animal."

Example: "My sister uses so much makeup, she has to use a sandblaster to get it off at night." ~Margaret http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/hyperbole/hyperbole2.html The tone of this example is very comical and can also be recognized as something that could be very mocking. This is a pretty comical article because clearly it is an exaggerated statement because it does not take a sandblaster to take makeup off, but the fact that this girl may use so much makeup is the reason that is overly exaggerating. If it took a sandblaster to take makeup off of a person, I would be highly surprised which is why this is a very comical example.
 * Hyperbole** --- Very exaggerated statements, obvious sarcasm.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdIanqM_RZ8 The tone of this video is very comical and mocking to a point. Although there is really such thing as a Mac computer, there is obviously no such thing as a MacMini. This goes along with the definition that it could be a respected structure meaning the Mac, but that the parody contains mocking or uncommon topics which is the MacMini.
 * Parody** ---The use of common and respected structures that contain mocking or uncommon topics.

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMzufTogzl0 Although this is not the most comical video, it is still very informative of what is going on around them. In this video it is funny to see Shakira singing on the phone while she is on her way to the actual performance. This is basically a way of showing just how good this phone is and what it is actually capable of doing. In other words it is a way for this company to make their phone the most popular.
 * Generalization** --- A basic group of ideas, concepts, information.

Example: An example of incongruity can be found when people deny things before they get to court, but when they get to court all they do is confess and act all good towards the judge as if they have never done anything wrong. I find this a little funny because usually when one goes to court, they would stand by their word and try to get out of doing something wrong, but most of the time they will just confess after stating their side of the story.
 * Incongruity** --- When something is out of place or inappropriate behavior.