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Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion. People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. Most people are able to experience humour—be amused, smile or laugh at something funny (such as a pun or joke)—and thus are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by subjective personal taste, the extent to which a person finds something humorous depends on a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence and context. For example, young children may favour slapstick such as Punch and Judy puppet shows or cartoons such as Tom and Jerry or Looney Tunes, whose physical nature makes it accessible to them. By contrast, more sophisticated forms of humour such as satire require an understanding of its social meaning and context, and thus tend to appeal to a more mature audience. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in the genre humor 2
Works about humor 31
- Come farsi una cultura mostruosa
- Lavoratori di tutto il mondo, ridete
- Sesso? Fai da te!
- Fragebogen
- Hardly Working
- Subtreasury of American Humor
- Tracey Takes On...
- Théologie portative
- Rome Done Lightly
- La familia Cebolleta
- The Trials and Tribulations of an English Woman In Uganda
- Terrible Maps
- On Humour
- La Sartagnado
- Offizielle Mitteilungen
- Mit Ringelnatz knallvergnügt durchs Leben
- Frag Mutti. Das Sparbuch
- Ceci n'est pas un livre sur les dinosaures
- Noch'n Buch
- Si tu veux suivre Dieu, attache bien ton chameau
- Kador 1
- Kommunikationsausbrüche
- Hell und schnell
- Das Ringelnatz Lesebuch
- Ein Mensch
- Tohuwabohu
- Der Bär verspürt an manchen Tagen ein rätselhaftes Unbehagen
- The Path of Most Resistance
- Das große Janosch Buch
- Das Wörterbuch der Lebenskunst
- L'Arme du rire
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