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Physical humor is humor that stems from things happening to a person. The most common example of physical humor the nearly-ubiquitous Object Hitting Man In Crotch. Other common examples include but are not limited to Spilling Food Or Beverage On Person, Small Dog Clinging To Toy While Being Lifted Into The Air, and the classic Slipping On Stuff.
Physical humor is humor that stems from things happening to a person. The most common example of physical humor the nearly-ubiquitous Object Hitting Man In Crotch. Other common examples include but are not limited to Spilling Food Or Beverage On Person, Small Dog Clinging To Toy While Being Lifted Into The Air, and the classic Slipping On Stuff.
The U.S. cable television show 'Jackass' has "elevated" physical humor of the painful type into a successful show and two movies. For whatever reason, young men in the coveted 18-25 demographic find that sort of humor to be delightful, much to the confusion and consternation of their female friends and relatives.
The U.S. cable television show 'Jackass' has elevated physical humor of the painful type into a successful show and two movies. For whatever reason, young men in the coveted 18-25 demographic find this to be the pinnacle of humor and often never grow out of it.
== Puns, Limericks, And Spoonerisms ==
== Puns, Limericks, And Spoonerisms ==
Puns are plays on words, normally involving homonyms
Puns are plays on words, normally involving [[homonyms]] or similar-sounding phrases. "Annapolis a fruit!" is a perfect example of a pun.
A limerick is a short poem consisting of five lines of varying length. Generally speaking, the last line of the limerick should reprise the first part of the limerick. Most limericks are ribald in nature, but there are plenty of perfectly tame limericks.
An example:
<blockquote>
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket
he had a daughter named Nan
who ran off with a man
and as for the bucket, Nan took it.
</blockquote>
A Spoonerism is created by swapping the first letters of two words, named after Edwin Spooner who often switched letters by accident. (It is suspected that Spooner had a brain tumor.)