According to (former) Onion Editor-In-Chief Scott Dikkers
- Irony – Intended meaning is opposite of literal meaning
- Character – Comedic character acting on personality traits
- Relatable – Common experiences that audiences can relate to
- Shock – Surprising jokes typically involving sex, drugs, gross-out humor, swearing
- Reference/Parody – Mimic a familiar character, trope or cliche in an unfamiliar way
- Hyperbole – Exaggeration to absurd extremes
- Wordplay – Puns, rhymes, double entendres, etc.
- Analogy – Comparing two disparate things
- Madcap – Crazy, wacky, silly, nonsensical
- Meta-humor – Jokes about jokes, or about the idea of comedy
- Misplaced Focus – Attention is focused on the wrong thing
Do you have a favorite "kind" of joke or is it more about the execution? Do you have a least favorite kind?
Do you agree with this theory of comedy or are there more types of joke?
I like misplaced focus, which I assume would include dry humor and deliberately downplaying situations.
Character humor is very funny too sometimes when its done to my tastes, not a character that is a funnyman but a character that has extreme or specific traits that lead to comedic situations. Hyperbole is funny too.
Generally not a fan of reference and shock humor, madcap also is very easy to make obnoxious.
same, though if dipped in too much irony it can just come across as callous shock humor. Like "my car plowed through a crowd of people. Don't worry, the car's fine."
agreed