Types of Humor
Walter Mitty
"The Catbird Seat"
Clips & Examples
Vocabulary
100
A form of comedy delivery in which a comic entertains an audience with jokes and stories.
What is Stand-Up comedy?
100
He is smoking a cigarette, facing a firing squad.
What is the last scene he imagines himself in.
100
The efficiency expert who wants to change everything at F & S.
Who is Mrs. Barrows?
100
The film clip that is an example of farcical humor.
What is The Marx Brothers' mirror scene?
100
Fallible.
What is the word that means to have faults?
200
Comedy in which mock violence and simulated bodily harm are staged for comic effect.
What is Slapstick comedy?
200
A pen.
What Walter Mitty, as a master surgeon, imagines he fixes a failing respirator with.
200
Man is, but Mr. Martin isn't.
What is infallible?
200
The cartoonist who drew cartoons using gallows humor.
Who is Charles Addams?
200
Scheme.
What is the word that means to plot or plan?
300
Grim or depressing humor dealing with misfortune and/or death.
What is Gallows humor?
300
an ace flying fighter pilot.
What does Walter Mitty imagine himself as, when he is drinking a lot of brandy?
300
He is buying cigarettes and whiskey.
What is the unlikely situation that Mr. Martin finds himself in at the opening of the story?
300
The type of humor displayed by the Three Stooges telephone pole clip.
What is slapstick humor?
300
Braying.
What is the word that means to make a loud noise like a donkey?
400
Humor in which performers target themselves and their misfortunes.
What is Self-Deprecating humor?
400
dog biscuits.
What is the item that Walter Mitty almost forgets to purchase before meeting up with his wife?
400
Heroin.
What Mr. Martin says he will be "coked to the gills" on when he blows up Mr. Fitweiler.
400
The comedic duo that employed satirical humor to make fun of Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On" song.
Who is The Flight of the Concords?
400
Nonsensical
What is the word that means to make no sense?
500
Comic presentation marked by extravagant exaggeration and outsized characterization.
What is hyperbolic humor?
500
"ta-pocketa-pockita-pockita-pockita."
What is the sound machines make in Walter Mitty's imagination.
500
The two types of humor this story represents.
What are ironic and situational?
500
The type of humor used in making Monty Python's "Mr. Creosote" clip.
What is Hyperbolic?
500
Turret.
What is the word that means a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building?
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