This research focuses on identifying the impoliteness strategies and explaining purposes of most frequently used strategy in Afraid Dark stand-up comedy show performed by Trevor Noah. The data this are Noah’s utterances which contains strategies. analysis was based theory proposed Jonathan Culpeper (1996). result shows that Noah uses 105 instances cover all five types Culpeper; bald record impo...

A ‘‘sense of humor’’ can be fractionated into appreciation (enjoying jokes), production fluency (making jokes), and production success (making funny jokes). There is scant research on how appreciation and production relate, and their relation to individual differences. Participants (N = 159) rated the humor of captioned cartoons and created captions for different cartoons. People who wrote funn...