comedy video techniques
Everything builds up to what seems like a huge, exciting moment. Instead, the ending is disappointing, ordinary, or much less important than expected.
Anticlimax
Fast, playful back-and-forth conversation between characters, often involving witty remarks.
Banter
What is Exaggeration?
A writer deliberately makes something seem much bigger, worse, better, or more important than it really is to highlight an issue.
What is Caricature?
An exaggerated representation of a person's most noticeable features or behaviours.
What actually happens is the opposite of what was expected to happen.
A character attempts something with confidence but it goes spectacularly wrong.
Epic fail
Humour based on exaggerated physical actions, accidents, or clumsy behaviour.
slapstick
What is irony?
The difference between what is expected and what actually happens, often exposing flaws or contradictions.
What is Dramatic Irony?
The audience knows something important that a character does not know.
A joke, phrase, or situation that keeps appearing throughout a story, becoming funnier each time.
Running gag
Saying the opposite of what you really mean, usually to mock or criticise.
sarcasm
What is a parody?
A humorous imitation of a well-known person, genre, movie, book, or style.
A character launches into a long, exaggerated speech about something that annoys them. They are usually very frustrated and angry.
Comic rant
One character completely misunderstands what another person is trying to say.
missing the point
What is incongruity?
Humour created when something seems out of place, unexpected, or doesn't fit the situation.
What is Hypocritical Humour?
A character criticises others for behaviour they themselves display.
What is understatement?
Making something seem less important, serious, or dramatic than it actually is.