"hostile humor" is a correct phrase that can be used in written English.
It refers to humor that is mean or unfriendly in nature. Example: "The comedian's jokes were full of hostile humor, making some audience members uncomfortable and causing others to laugh nervously."
Maybe his spoiled-baby face was just too nearly perfect for the role, and he knew it, and knew the hostile humor that lay behind Mankiewicz's putting so much of him in the role of Hearst the braggart self-publicist and making Kane so infantile.
Contemptuous behavior includes eye-rolling, sarcasm, hostile humor and name-calling.
Men tend to tell more jokes, tease and disparage (hostile humor), and enjoy slapstick humor, whereas women tend to prefer telling a story, usually in a self-deprecating manner, that elicits a response of group solidarity from other females.
After Ms. Sangalo's father, a jeweler, died when she was a teenager, she began playing the bars of Salvador, accompanying herself on guitar and learning to project above the din and disarm potentially hostile crowds with humor and between-song patter.
They ignore the hostile climate that their "humor" creates, that they are throwing gasolene on the hatred that fuels rapes and young gay kids killing themselves and all sorts of sadness and evil.
Use humor to counter hostile behavior or unfair treatment.
"International audiences are hostile because they don't understand the humor that is often present in the work of black performers," said James Ulmer, whose Ulmer Scale rates the global "bankability" of actors.
Research on humor and coping shows that the non-hostile kind of humor (that doesn't poke fun at other people) can help you cheer up, and cheer up the other people around you at the same time.
Many gay rites-of-passage stories are echoed here: hostile small-town environment (Chattanooga, Tenn).; rigidly masculine father; humor as armor against bullies; unrequited loves; drug and alcohol dependency; internal homophobia; weakness for rough trade.
But studies about joke preferences by Hans Jurgen Eysenck (1972, xvi) have shown that the people who enjoy aggressive and sexual humor the most are not those who usually repress hostile and sexual feelings, but those who express them.
A different brand of humor pierced the cold air outside, where the atmosphere was more carnival-like than hostile.
