wit, and the British class system. These are often accompanied by a deadpan delivery which is present throughout the British sense of humour. It may be...
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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...
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Black comedy (redirect from Black humour)
dying. Black humour can occasionally be related to the grotesque genre. Literary critics have associated black comedy and black humour with authors as...
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Surreal humour (also called surreal comedy, absurdist humour, or absurdist comedy) is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning...
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Toilet humour, potty humour or scatological humour (compare scatology), is a type of off-colour humour dealing with defecation (including diarrhea and...
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Deadpan (redirect from Deadpan humour)
Deadpan, dry humour, or dry-wit humour is the deliberate display of emotional neutrality or no emotion, commonly as a form of comedic delivery to contrast...
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Humour is an integral part of the Canadian identity. There are several traditions in Canadian humour in both English and French. While these traditions...
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surreal humour, and cultural references to great effect. British Comedy Guide List of British comedians British Comedy Awards British humour British sitcom...
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confrontation, underlining the cultural importance of this unspoken rule. British humour is well known for its use of absurdity, awkwardness, dark comedy, self-deprecation...
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In British popular culture, the British Rail sandwiches were the sandwiches sold for consumption on passenger trains of the former British Rail (BR),...
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Plug (comics) (category British humour comics)
Plug was a British comic magazine that ran for 75 issues from 24 September 1977 until 24 February 1979, when it merged with The Beezer. It was edited...
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Treacle mining (category British humour)
topic has been a joke in British humour since the mid-19th century. One possible origin of the joke is from 1853 when 8,000 British Army soldiers were camped...
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joke types. Anti-humor Bar joke Bellman joke Black comedy Blonde joke British humour Callback Conditional joke Cringe comedy Cruel jokes Dad joke Dead baby...
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Caustic humour is a type of humour which relies on witty insults. As is implied by the name (which literally means humour which is designed to burn or...
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as 'only' or 'mainly' Scottish. United Kingdom portal British humour British nationalism British studies Cool Britannia Cricket test Jacobean debate on...
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of humours is a genre of dramatic comedy that focuses on a character or range of characters, each of whom exhibits overriding traits or 'humours' that...
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Postcard (redirect from British seaside postcards)
inch) shorter. 75 million of these cards were sent within Britain during 1870. In 1973 the British Post Office introduced a new type of card, PHQ Cards, popular...
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Gabrovo, Bulgaria is well known for the unique sense of humour possessed by its citizens. Local humour centres on the alleged stinginess of its citizens and...
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comedy British humour List of BBC sitcoms List of American television series based on British television series Lists of films based on British TV comedies...
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book and is the most famous of the 44 he wrote. It is a classic of British humour and by its 32nd impression in 1966 had sold over 300,000 copies. It...
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shaped the game's humour and style, with a soft focus look leading to a style akin to Plasticine models. The distinct British humour was also used to distinguish...
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Rude Britain (subtitled 100 Rudest Place Names in Britain) is a 2005 book of British place names with seemingly rude or offensive meanings. The book...
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Colin Firth (category Use British English from January 2014)
on 11 December 2010. Retrieved 30 January 2013. "Easy Virtue brings British humour to Rome Film Festival". Reuters. Retrieved 27 October 2008. Colin Firth...
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The Beezer (category British humour comics)
(called The Beezer and Topper for the last three years of publication) was a British comic that ran from (issues dates) 21 January 1956 to 21 August 1993, published...
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Punch (magazine) (category Use British English from July 2015)
Punch, or The London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and wood-engraver Ebenezer Landells...
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Computer humour, also known as hacker humour, is humour on the subject of computers or their users. Examples of computer humour include: "Any key", taken...
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Billy Bunter (category British humour comics)
then later branched into a style of his own, concentrating on slapstick humour. Soon the Famous Five vanished from the strip, replaced by Jones minor,...
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List of regular mini-sections in Private Eye (redirect from Dumb Britain)
quotations related to Dumb Britain. Bizarre, ignorant or otherwise humorous answers to questions given by contestants on British television and radio quiz...
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The Beano (category British humour comics)
its legacy is its misbehaving characters, escapist tales and anarchic humour with an audience of all ages. Beano is a multimedia franchise with spin-off...
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Cheeky Weekly (category British humour comics)
Cheeky Weekly was a British comic book magazine published every Monday by IPC Magazines Ltd. It ran for 117 issues from (issues dates) 22 October 1977...
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