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Anti-humor is a type of indirect humor that involves the joke-teller delivering something which is deliberately not funny, or lacking in intrinsic meaning. The practice relies on the expectation on the part of the audience of something humorous, and when this does not happen, the irony itself is of comedic value. Anti-humor is also the basis of various types of pranks and hoaxes. The humor of such jokes is based on the surprise factor of absence of an expected joke or of a punch line in a narration which is set up as a joke. This kind of anticlimax is similar to that of the shaggy dog story.〔Warren A. Shibles, (Humor Reference Guide: A Comprehensive Classification and Analysis ) (Hardcover) 1998 ISBN 0-8093-2097-5〕 In fact, some researchers see the "shaggy dog story" as a type of anti-joke.〔John Henderson, "Writing Down Rome: Satire, Comedy, and Other Offences in Latin Poetry" (1999) ISBN 0-19-815077-6, (p. 218 )〕 ==Examples== A common example of anti-joke is "Why did the chicken cross the road?" with the answer, "To get to the other side." The punchline is intentionally mundane. The shaggy dog story involves telling an extremely long joke with an intricate (and sometimes horribly grisly) back story and surreal or incredibly repetitive plotline, but ending the story with either a weak spoonerism, or abruptly stopping with no real punchline at all. Versions of these jokes may take up to several minutes or even hours to tell. Some anti-jokes can take a darker tone of humor. One such joke that has become popular on the Internet involves one asking "Why did Sally fall off the swing?" with the answer, "Because she had no arms." Another type of anti-joke gives a suggestion of building to a (typically risqué) punchline, but breaks the audience's anticipation by swerving to a non-risqué punchline or no punchline at all: "Did you hear about the honeymooners who confused the tube of K-Y Jelly with window putty? Quite the tragedy, all the windows fell out of their new home." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anti-humor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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