A Brief Note On Psychology

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Anecdotal
1. Anecdotal: Named after the word anecdote (which stems from the Greek term meaning “unpublished”); refers to comic personal stories that may be true or partly true but embellished.

Blue
2. Also called off-color, or risque (from the French word for “to risk”); relies on impropriety or indecency for comic effect. (The name probably derives from the eighteenth-century use of the word blue to refer to morally strict standards — hence the phrase “blue laws” to refer to ordinances restricting certain behavior on the Sabbath). A related type is broad humor, which refers to unrestrained, unsubtle humor often marked by coarse jokes and sexual situations.

Burlesque
3. Ridicules by imitating with caricature, or exaggerated characterization. The association with striptease is that in a bygone era, mocking skits and ecdysiastic displays were often on the same playbills in certain venues.

Dark/Gallows/Morbid
4. Grim or depressing humor dealing with misfortune and/or death and with a pessimistic outlook.

Deadpan/Dry
5. Delivered with an impassive, expressionless, matter-of-fact presentation.

Droll
6. From the Dutch word meaning “imp”; utilizes capricious or eccentric humor.

Epigrammatic
7. Humor consisting of a witty saying such as “Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.” (Not all epigrams are humorous, however.) Two masters of epigrammatic humor are Benjamin Franklin (as the author of Poor Richard’s Almanackand Oscar Wilde.

Farcical
8. Comedy based on improbable coincidences and with satirical elements, punctuated at times with overwrought, frantic action. (It, like screwball comedy — see below — shares many elements with a comedy of errors.) Movies and plays featuring the Marx Brothers are epitomes of farce. The adjective also refers to incidents or proceedings that seem too ridiculous to be true.

High/highbrow
9. Humor pertaining to cultured, sophisticated themes.

Hyperbolic
10. Comic presentation marked by extravagant exaggeration and outsized characterization.

Ironic
11. Humor involving incongruity and discordance with norms, in which the intended meaning is opposite, or nearly opposite, to the literal meaning. (Not all irony is humorous, however.)

Juvenile/sophomoric
12. Humor involving childish themes such as pranks, name-calling, and other immature behavior.

Mordant
13. Caustic or biting humor (the word stems from a Latin word meaning “to bite”). Not to be confused with morbid humor (see above).
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