Anti-Humour - The New 'Alternative Comedy'

Question: "What did that little boy with no arms or legs get for Christmas?"

Answer: "Cancer".

Offensive? distasteful? Or funny? If you joke that you are one of a growing number of people to understand "anti-humor," a new genre of comedy to cult status in England and America have. Deliberate counter comedy tradition, many say it is overtaking observational humor to the new 'alternative comedy' became.

Wikipedia describes it as "a form of indirect humor joke where the counter deliver something that is not intentionally funny, or is lacking in intrinsic importance." Originally an underground phenomenon, anti-humor is now a plethora of fans, including mainstream comedians Bill Bailey and Jimmy Carr. websites dedicated to jokes (eg the website of Comedy Central) has caught on and started phenomenon including an anti-or anti-humor joke department. But is it anti-humor comedy or just a future passing phase?

In reality, an umbrella term, anti-humor under his wing, taking a series of joke telling style. Below are some examples

The mundane ends based upon introducing an unexpected end everyday.

Q: What is the difference between a boy and a girl?

A. The boy is eight times greater chance of being convicted for murder.

Or the use of unexpected technical or conversational language as the popular "Johnny big head" joke below

Johnny came home crying from school and says, says I have a big head "Mommy all the kids at school."

His mother replied: "No, you do not Johnny. You have a hideously deformed head. The other children are merely hiding the truth to protect your feelings."

Crap jokes are funny because they have no meaning or is illogical or absurd.

A man decides to buy a new ceiling fan, but the seller says, "Well, I'm all for the tuna."

So guy says aloud, "I want a ceiling fan."

But the seller says, "I tell you, I'm all for the tuna."

The frustrated man screams: "I want a ceiling fan?"

So the sale of his ear, and says: "Oh sorry, I could not hear you. I thought you were a man who wanted tuna."

Dark humor to try the receiver, which often takes something harmless and extracting humor by giving a dark twist (like dead baby jokes that are currently popular shock)

Q: Why did the Jolly Green Giant kicked out of the garden?

A: Statutory rape by a guard.

A Shaggy Dog story is a long and complicated joke with a weak or no end. His humor is dependent on its anti-climactic punch line. Take a look at this example (http://www.badpuns.com/jokes.php?section=shaggy&name=shaggydog)

Although there is no doubt that there is a recent rise in popularity of "anti-humor" is, one might argue that the origins of the genre since the modern comedy began. Probably one of the oldest jokes on the comedy circuit is "The Aristocrats." Based on a short story with a family traveling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aristocrats_ (joke)), includes all categories of anti-humor "and considered a sort of "secret handshake" among many comedians. So popular that in 2005 a documentary based on it, with comedians such as Whoop Goldberg, Billy Connolly and Eric Idle. Nevertheless recognized until recently is another example of the popularity of anti-humor in the recent past.

Anti-humor is impolite a revolt against the classic joke. By undermining the traditional ending and / or increasing the shock value, turning a classic joke in his head, mocking his own size. One wonders whether the anti-humor is always there as a sort of relief Comedians sick of worn jokes. Maybe it was one way of the humor back to comedy, so it was not working.

But Todd Jackson comedy writer blog http://www.dead-frog.com 'm anti-humor comedy as a progression in the public taste,

"It is also and advanced public comedians who tell us that good enough humor fun to eat its own tail, you will hear a tried and true punch line to see."

He refers to an article in the New York Times that the talks among the general public is much more self-conscious about his funny and in this way suggests a similarity between the observational study of humor and anti-humor.

Anti-humor seems to keep what verse is obviously well-worn territory. In this way, a number of conceptual artists to bring life to what is an old company through a traditional format and undermine one could say that the anti-humor is reinvigorating a tired comic tradition. Like all other art forms, of course, progress, anti-humor seems the next step for comedy. Especially popular among young people and a place to pave the way for the genre which is www.itsnotfunny.co.uk some really good / bad examples of anti-humor submitted by students from across the country. It seems that the anti-humor will only gain popularity in the coming years and it is clearly here to stay.

Interestingly, Jackson mentions that his aristocrat joke online database now some aristocrats joke, a straight and clean version of the action of the family includes covers. It seems that even in cases of anti-humor can undermine undermined.