In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

Making fun of management self-help books, especially the current crop that leans on the likes of Jesus and Shakespeare for inspiration, is easy. Which is why I'm not ready to hail Stanley Bing as a ...

A video parody in favor of President Barack Obama called One Term More is circulating the Internet. It's a witty, satirical rewrite of the great song from Les Misérables, "One Day More." And the ...

Sarcasm. Hyperbole. Both are useful tools in a writer’s arsenal. When combined, they can make for rather incisive criticism of a person or idea. Take, for instance, Will Saletan‘s piercing satire of ...

It’s not even meant to be ironic; people fucking label with irony so much and people need to learn the difference between irony and satire and sarcasm. Irony is something very specific that does not ...

Google’s John Mueller answered if it’s still true that Google doesn’t understand sarcasm. Google’s John Mueller offered an explanation of when sarcasm might not be appropriate in the context of Google ...