What is a cold joke? What is black humor?

[Edit this paragraph] Definition of a cold joke

Definition 1: The person telling the joke is quite calm and basically expressionless. The listener should be stunned for a moment after hearing the joke, and think about it until the joke becomes funny.

Definition 2: Cold jokes generally go beyond conventional thinking, do not conform to logic and reality in life, and make people feel stunned; although some cold jokes are quite funny, no matter what, this kind of joke will not be heard after listening to it. You won't laugh as hard as those who hear "normal" jokes; jokes that are not funny at all, very boring jokes, but can achieve the purpose of mental relaxation, because this kind of joke does not require brain to understand; brain teasers It's just a bad joke. (Especially the kind of guessing idioms that use homophones, English, etc., and the kind of guessing like peanuts and butterfly love flowers).

Definition 3: A cold joke is a joke that is not funny at all, a very boring joke, but it can achieve the purpose of mental relaxation, because this kind of joke is easy to understand and easy to understand, but it can The aftertaste is long.

Definition 4: A cold joke refers to a joke that was originally funny due to problems such as phonetic characters, translation, omission of the subject, different logic, assertions and special content, or due to the performer's tone or expression. The joke feels different than the average joke and is harder to laugh at. Cold jokes do not mean they are not funny, they are also a manifestation of humor. Sometimes the fact that a joke is not funny is part of the punchline of the joke.

Definition 5: A bad joke (called a bad gag in Hong Kong and a bad joke in Taiwan) is a type of failed joke. It refers to the fact that the joke itself is phonetic, or translated, or the subject is omitted, or it is different. Problems with logic, diction, special content, etc., or due to reasons such as the performer's tone or expression, cause an originally funny joke to fail to achieve its purpose of being funny, making it difficult to make people laugh and leading to a dull moment. However, this does not mean that the joke itself is boring. This is also a manifestation of humor. Nowadays, most people will smile knowingly when they hear cold jokes, and sometimes they will hug their arms tightly to express: "It's so cold!" or speak and express with cold connotations, such as cold shock, temperature, air conditioning or hot weather, etc. wait.

Some cold jokes only have performance problems. After re-conceptualizing the performance, many subtleties can be discovered. Sometimes saying that a cold joke is not funny is another funny point of the joke (it is simple and very good at the same time. (to change the atmosphere), cold jokes are now widely popular in the Internet, BBS, TV programs (variety shows), books, magazines and other media, and there are many masters of cold jokes in the market.

Black humor

Black humor, English name: black humor

Modern American literary genre. It was popular in the mid-to-late 1960s. In 1965, Friedman compiled the works of 12 writers into a collection of short stories titled "Black Humor", from which the name of the genre was derived. Black humor novels strive to highlight the absurdity and cruelty of the living environment, ridicule and attack traditional values ??and aesthetic concepts, and express the alienation of the world, the degradation of human nature and the fragmentation of emotions. Some critics call it "gallows humor" or "jokes in times of disaster." Black humor can be said to be anti-rational and anti-idealistic literature.

After the rise of "black humor" literature in the early 1960s, it quickly became one of the important literary genres in the United States and even the entire West. The reason why it has gained social attention is not only its profound ideological connotation and aesthetic value, but also its uniqueness in creative techniques. Taken together, it has the following artistic features.

First, the special humor style. "Black humor" is different from the humor in traditional literature. In traditional Western literature, generally speaking, the distinction between tragedy and comedy is very clear. Comedy satirizes the ugliness and deformity of the villain, while tragedy expresses the pain and misfortune of the hero. But "black humor" literature breaks this boundary. The content of tragedy adopts the artistic treatment of comedy, and pain and misfortune also become the objects of jokes, that is, the content of tragedy is expressed in the form of comedy. This introduces a new factor into the traditional aesthetic form of humor: believing that pain is ridiculous and taking a mocking attitude towards misfortune.

For example, Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" and Heller's "Catch-22" are both based on World War II, but the author's intention is not to write a "war novel" or to truly describe the second world. War, but I want to use this to enlighten people, so that people can see the situation of the weak and the strong in contemporary society from these novels.