Types of Humor in shows?

OH TGIF this is an easy one! Humor that makes ME laugh is cultured, intelligent and witty. Humor that makes OTHER PEOPLE laugh is coarse, vulgar, dirty and cheap! That's a JOKE people!

Seriously, humor is such a complicated emotion! We laugh at things because we are surprised, or embarrassed, or delighted and that's just the first three that came to mind. A lot of Wicked's humor, for example, gets laughs because it suddenly jerks us out of the moment by invoking a line from The Wizard of Oz, causing us to laugh in recognition.

"The Producers" was lambasted (Often unfairly) for being "coarse" or "Cheap". Sometimes I think that happens because people think they ought not laugh at a sexual reference or "bad" word and so they feel obligated to justify themselves: "Yes I laughed, but it was a cheap joke". Mel Brooks has a particular rythm to his humor that often depends a "punch" in the punchline that emphasises the "dirty" word. ("Who do you have to F*ck in this Town???")

Spamalot seems to be stirring up a lot on controversy on the boards as they are using all the "low" humor tricks in their show- Anachronistic references, breaking the fourth wall, audience interaction- but I think if it makes you laugh, it's a good joke and if it doesn't it isn't!

The thing about Avenue Q...YES, it's a bit dirty...but it's also incredibly clever and witty. You'd have to be brilliant to think of some of the things that they did.

Wocked? The Asian cooking musical?

haha..

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Without the low humour?

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