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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I was just kidding,” is probably one of the most common refrains uttered when someone gets busted. Even President Donald Trump tried to back out of his infamous “pussy grabbing” comment saying it had ...

Roseanne Barr is notoriously sarcastic and pointedly snide. A committed Jew and liberal activist member of the Peace and Freedom Party, she recently employed dark sarcasm in her attempt to ridicule ...

Breaking: Roseanne Barr has said something controversial. The comic has basically done nothing but that in the last decade or so, but out of context, this quote comes across as particularly egregious.