Portal:Humor

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Welcome to the WikiPortal Humor!

Humor Portal

Welcome to the WikiPortal Humor!

Humor (also spelled humour) is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh or feel happy. The origin of the term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which stated that a mix of fluids known as humors controlled human health and emotion. A sense of humor is the ability to experience humor, a quality which all people share, although the extent to which an individual will personally find something humorous depends on a host of absolute and relative variables, including, but not limited to geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education and context. For example, young children (of any background) particularly favour slapstick, while satire tends to appeal to more mature audiences.

This portal is made to provide easy access to humor-related topics and articles on Wikipedia. You may like to browse through the keyword collection and the featured article. Of course you are also invited to contribute to Wikipedia by editing one of the articles listed under "review needed".

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Featured article

Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. In Celtic societies, it was thought a bard's satire could have physical effects, similar to a curse. The humor of such a satire tends to be subtle, using irony and deadpan humour liberally. Most satire has specific, readily identifiable targets; however there is also a less focused, formless genre known as Menippean satire. Example: The film, The Great Dictator (1940) by Charlie Chaplin is a satire on Adolf Hitler and his Nazi army.

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Joke of the Week

Definition of KISS

Prof. of Economics Kiss is that thing for which the demand is aways higher than the supply.

Prof. of Accountancy Kiss is a credit because it is profitable when returned.

Prof. of Algebra Kiss is infinity because two divided by nothing.

Prof. of Zoology Kiss is the interchange of salivary bacteria.

Prof. of Philosophy Kiss is the persecution for the child, ecstasy for the youth and homage for the old.

Prof. of English Kiss is a noun that is used as a conjunction, it is more common than proper, it is spoken in the plural and it is applicable to all.

Prof. of Architecture Kiss is a process which builds a solid bond between the two dynamic objects

Prof. of Comp.Science What is a kiss? It seems to be an undefined variable

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Things you can do

Weekly Collaboration

A joke is a short story or short series of words spoken or communicated with the intent of being laughed at or found humorous by the listener or reader.

This week's weekly collaboration is on the article Joke. Our aim is mainly to achieve a major improvement of readability, this could be done by converting the numerous bullet points in fluent text.

Vote on next week's collaboration

Please edit the proposals page at Portal:Humor/Weekly Colaboration/Next Week

The Weekly Collaboration in the Portal:Humor is aiming to improve and maintain articles in the topic area around humor. This page makes it up to you which article should be placed in next week's improvement focus. Please post your proposals underneath this text. Each Saturday evening (New Zealand Time) the article that was given the most "Agree." comments is listed as Weekly Collaboration at Portal:Humor/Weekly Colaboration and hence appears at Portal:Humor.