1. Exaggeration. Sometimes when things are exaggerated it can make things more funny.
2. Exposing the truth. Sometimes we say things to be nice, or tell a white lie. If you say what you really mean it can be funny (as long as it is not happening to you!) For example in a cartoon by Mankoff it says "No, Thursdays out. How about never-is never good for you?" Instead of saying, "No, can't do it then. I'm sorry." He told the truth and it was funny!
3. Clash of context. When things obviously don't go together but are put together anyway. For example a cartoon by Mankoff where a boy is saying to his father
"Dad, here's the update on my childhood as you requested." Its a clash of context because the child is acting like the adult.
4. Surprise. When you are just not expecting something. Like in a cartoon by Mankoff A table of executives and the man at the head saying
"And, with no reason yet to panic, I think it's only prudent that we make preparations to panic." We do not expect him to say that. If the caption had said.
"While it is prudent we make preparations to panic, There is no reason to." It wouldn't be funny. A lot about comedy is that its a slap in the face. Something we are not expecting.
5. Counterfactual. Wen you just know that something is wrong, and impossible.
6. Conflict. Need I add more.
7. Cliche manipulation. Like a cartoon done by BEK. A man in a throne that looks like God talking to an angel with a note pad saying
"Oh, and C.C to the devil."
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