and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

His book, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2010, and his second book Not Taco Bell Material also reached New York Times bestseller status and received widespread acclaim for its cutting social commentary and humor.

Another noticeable trait is his sense of humor, largely absent in the comics and movies but very much a part of Howard's original vision of the character, particularly apparent in " Xuthal of the Dusk ", also known as " The Slithering Shadow.

Although they also employ humor, they are more serious in tone, commonly using irony or satire.

Although humor is the most prevalent subject matter, adventure and drama are also represented in this medium.

Ishi's imperturbable good humor alone made the work possible, though it also at times added to my exasperation ".

Beyond horror, Poe also wrote satires, humor tales, and hoaxes.

Wilkins also published the highly successful Los Angeles punk humor zine Wild Times and when he ran out of funding for the zine syndicated some of the humorous material to over 100 U. S. fanzines under the name of Mystic Mark.

Folklore can also be used to assert social pressures, or relieve them, for example in the case of humor and carnival.

Whereas, throughout its history, the South has relished its grits, making them a symbol of its diet, its customs, its humor, and its hospitality, and whereas, every community in the State of South Carolina used to be the site of a grits mill and every local economy in the State used to be dependent on its product ; and whereas, grits has been a part of the life of every South Carolinian of whatever race, background, gender, and income ; and whereas, grits could very well play a vital role in the future of not only this State, but also the world, if as Charleston's The Post and Courier proclaimed in 1952, " An inexpensive, simple, and thoroughly digestible food, should be made popular throughout the world.

Internet humor may also be regarded as humor that specifically relies on characteristics belonging to the Internet, such as the domain name slurls or the " geek " or " hacker " humor ( i. e., humor that would not exist if not for the Internet ), some of which can be considered ironic.

The Mishnah also quotes the Torah for principles not associated with law, but just as practical advice, even at times for humor or as guidance for understanding historical debates.

The “ clever slave ” in particular is a very strong character ; he not only provides exposition and humor, but also often drives the plot in Plautus ’ plays.

At times, Sakamoto would also present varying interpretations of technology's intersection with music: He would present some pieces, such as " Replica ", with Kraftwerkian rigidity and order, while he would infuse humanity and humor into others – " Broadway Boogie Woogie ", for example, liberally lifts samples from Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner and pairs them with a raucous, sax-driven techno-pop backdrop.

It is used to add humor to games, but can also have an effect on gameplay such as improving the strength of other attacks.

He had a startling fondness for scatological humor, which is preserved in his surviving letters, notably those written to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla Mozart around 1777 – 1778, but also in his correspondence with his sister and parents.

The newsgroup also follows various internet " mad scientists " and " crackpots " such as Archimedes Plutonium, Kurt Stocklmeir, and Time Cube inventor Gene Ray with a mixture of mockery and appreciation for the unintended humor they produce.

These first five episodes feature a noticeably different tone from the rest of the series, including some more adult-oriented humor, with some raunchier elements and slightly coarser language ; several of the characters, primarily those of Rosco and Cooter, are also given different interpretation to their more recognized roles.

The unreliable narrator device is also used to generate suspense in " The Three Apples " and humor in " The Hunchback's Tale " ( see Crime fiction elements below ).

He also appreciated her blunt personality and bawdy sense of humor.

The voice and humor of Queer Duck character Bi-Polar Bear – voiced by Ren & Stimpy and Futurama actor Billy West – is also done in the style of Paul Lynde, as was the supervillain The Scoutmaster in the Simpsons episode Radioactive Man.

He was also known for his pranks and impish sense of humor.

For a serious young man who plays golf with a serious intensity, Palmer has such an inherent sense of humor that it relieves the strain and keeps his nerves from jangling like banjo strings.

Everywhere there are little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments with winning warmth.

More than literal adaptations, the plays address violence, death, crime and fear in contemporary contexts, while revisiting many trope of the original Grand Guignol corpus, often with humor.

Plautus scattered songs through his plays and increased the humor with puns and wisecracks, plus comic actions by the actors.

He deconstructed many of the Greek plays ’ finely constructed plots ; he reduced some, exaggerated others of the nicely drawn characters of Menander and of Menander ’ s contemporaries and followers into caricatures ; he substituted for or superimposed upon the elegant humor of his models his own more vigorous, more simply ridiculous foolery in action, in statement, even in language.

The humor Plautus offered, such as “ puns, word plays, distortions of meaning, or other forms of verbal humor he usually puts them in the mouths of characters belonging to the lower social ranks, to whose language and position these varieties of humorous technique are most suitable ,” matched well with the stable of characters.

He did write a series of brief nonsense plays which poked fun at the conventions of the theatre using zany, offbeat humor and outrageous, impossible stage directions, such as " The curtain is lowered for seven days to denote the lapse of a week.

Many people had assumed that Labiche's plays owed their popularity to the actors who had appeared in them, but upon reading the plays, they realized that their success was due to the writing itself, with its humor and skilled characterization.

Minneapolis became a home for vaudeville comedy known as bondkomik ( rustic humor ), which featured multi-act plays, dances, songs and monologues.

The humor has a typically British, offhanded flavor, and the essentially simple story plays more as a multi-character rondo on a single idea.

The horn-shaped rhyta are carefully woven in composition with the erect male organs of the satyrs, but this blatantly sexual and somewhat humorous theme appears to be a late development, in keeping with Athenian humor, as is expressed in the plays of Aristophanes.

The humor plays upon the fact that Leberkleister rhymes with Jägermeister.

Carpas, or tent shows, were popular beginning in 1911 where lower-class citizens would perform picaresque humor and theatrical plays, a place for training for aspiring actors.

* One of the greatest literary figures in Belgian history was eccentric playwright Michel de Ghelderode, a true visionary whose folkish morality plays and stories resonated with Hieronymus Bosch-like humor and fantasy.

In the hundreds of plays he wrote, with settings ranging from the Biblical times to legendary Spanish history to classical mythology to his own time, Lope de Vega frequently took a comical approach just as Cervantes did, taking a conventional moral play and dressing it up in good humor and cynicism.

In fairness, it should be noted that despite his stereotyped appearance and voice, he nonetheless usually plays straight man to Magoo's shenanigans, rather than being a source of humor himself ; that is, he is the " sane " one of the pair.

The scenarios used in " Ridiculous " plays were often parodies or re-workings of pop-culture fiction, used as vehicles for social commentary or humor.

The story uses a style typical to many parodies and spoofs of the genre, most notably Bored of the Rings, encompassing not only high and sometimes abstruse humor but middle and low as well, through punning references and plays on words designed to either make light of the original characters ' names or referencing pop-culture touchpoints.

While at Emerson, he worked for the school humor magazine, school newspaper, WERS 88. 9 FM radio, and served as art director on several dramatic plays.

Although a number of his longer works tend to be melodramatic, it was his satirical plays that are memorable for their irony and humor, the tightness of their plot structure, and the specious use of language.

He frequently plays with a dark sense of humor in his writings.