There are various types of humor, from the witty humor of Mark Twain, to the physical humor of The Three Stooges, to the dark humor of George Carlin.
To Dryden, Chaucer was the primary source not just of English literature but of the English character, "the various manners and Humors... of the whole English nation".
Just as bodily health was said to rely on a sound physical constitution and a balanced diet and way of life, so the health of the polity depended on a sound constitution that achieved a "natural" balance between the various organs and "humors" of the political body.
Much of its humor ridicules various ethnicities and American states.
Kurtzman eventually left Mad to work on various other, lesser-known humor magazines: Trump (published by Hugh Hefner), Humbug, and Help! (which prefigured National Lampoon).
Peek at the Rotten Tomatoes page for 2014's Captain America: The Winter Soldier and you'll see critic after critic applauding the film for its "energy", "humor" and various allusions to real-world problems.
For both François and des Esseintes, life consists primarily of a futile quest to forget their bodily ailments and limitations through various amusements and there is humor in their splattering failures.
After the various treatment regimens, aqueous humor samples were obtained by paracenthesis and immediately assayed for nitrates and nitrites (an index of NO production), using a microplate assay kit.
The wars of Renaissance Italy also enter into the action, as do the superstitions of the era, making the ambitions of the Duke of Milan just one more factor in a project that required the builder of the great church to calculate the "humors" of various types of wood and to poach tombstones when barges laden with marble sank in the Arno.
The various mind-sets that make humor work -- the perverse joy of incongruity, the detached contempt of satire -- suddenly were nowhere to be found in the American psyche.
