In a humour article, GamesRadar editor Dave Meikleham listed Charmander as a video game creature who would make an " awesome pet ", stating that it could serve as a makeshift campfire.

" Nintendo World Report editor Pedro Hernandez called Bowser the " main character " of the game, commenting that the plot and humour of the game makes iconic characters " more enduring, including Bowser.

Much of the humour of the round came from the reactions of the two team captains: while Paul Merton was clearly familiar with the game and greatly enjoyed it, his opponent, Ian Hislop, admitted he'd never seen Play Your Cards Right and appeared mystified by the game's rules and etiquette ( when at one point Merton and the crowd shouted the traditional cry of " lower, lower ," to predict the next card in the hidden sequence, Hislop commented, " I'm not sure this program could get much lower!

Adventure Gamers gave the game 4 out of 5 stars, saying, " Overall, Beneath a Steel Sky is an engaging adventure classic, which fuses an intelligent, thought-provoking storyline with light-hearted humour, to create a thoroughly enjoyable playing experience.

Unlike Mastermind presenters, Mayne had a very dry, quirky and sometimes sarcastic sense of humour, but did a very good job of keeping the game going ; he would quickly jump in if one of the celebrity panelists was tardy in posing their question, so as not to penalise the contestant.

The game has a comical overtone, with lighthearted humour and cartoonish aliens.

Despite the fact that it features a nine-year-old as the protagonist, much of the game's humour is adult-oriented, including sexual puns ( such as a frog called " Horny "; Willy giving a bully a hand held game system and telling him to " play with himself "; a young blonde school nurse with large breasts ) and some satire ( including a parody of conservative American talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh ).

Reardon also became popular because he added a touch of humour and entertainment to his game.

* Toon ( 1984, a humour role-playing game )

Adventure Classic Gaming called it " rewarding but challenging ", and suggested skipping the floppy disk version of the game as the voice-acting ( not available on the floppy disk version ) was excellent and an integral part of the game's humour.

Adventure Gamers praised the voice acting, graphics, humour and story, calling it " a wonderful game ", but noted that " it stops short of being a classic simply due to its sheer difficulty and the unwieldy nature of the game ".

Additional humour is derived from the manner in which the host introduces and explains the game.

Critics praised the fun, addictiveness, music and humour of the game.

The game also drew criticism in the Daily Star for its juxtaposition of war and humour and its use of iconography closely resembling the remembrance poppy.

The game has a somewhat dark sense of humour, which is similar to that of Theme Park in many ways.

The game revolves around the continual worldwide conflict that the Warhammer Fantasy setting is known for, and the game is geared toward ongoing, constant war laced with dark humour.

GameDaily's Chris Buffa also listed the droid as one of their top 25 video game robots, praising its humour and in-game value.

Boyce's humour refers to rugby union very often and he has written many songs about the trials and tribulations of following the game as a fan e. g. ' Asso Asso Yogoshi ', ' The Scottish Trip ', ' Hymns and Arias '.

While Fur Fighters was not a tremendous financial success and went almost unnoticed by the majority of gamers at the time, critically the game was almost universally praised for its size, scope, sense of humour, and attention to detail.

" Most critics praised the game for its humour and unique take on the god-game genre, but also criticised it for its frustrating micromanagement and annoying bugs.

There is also a strong element of humour in the game.

Another development was the increasing use of " gross-out humour " usually aimed at a younger audience, in films like There's Something About Mary, American Pie and its sequels, and Freddy Got Fingered.

" A friend of Eileen's reminisced about her tolerance and humour, often at Orwell's expense.

Thus, Sterne lost his chances for clerical advancement but discovered his real talents ; until the completion of this first work, " he hardly knew that he could write at all, much less with humour so as to make his reader laugh ".

In 1969, while at Kearney State College, he wrote a weekly humour column for the college newspaper and was a frequent contributor of poetry and short stories to The Shore Anthology and The Antler.

A lengthy shaggy dog story derives its humour from the fact that the joke-teller held the attention of the listeners for a long time ( such jokes can take five minutes or more to tell ) for no reason at all, as the story ends with a meaningless anticlimax.

** Farce – aims at entertaining the audience by means of unlikely, extravagant, and improbable situations, disguise and mistaken identity, verbal humour of varying degrees of sophistication, which may include word play, and a fast-paced plot whose speed usually increases, culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene.

By contrast, the humour and transformation in The Importance of Being Earnest is much lighter in tone, though Algernon's protest at his putative arrest, " Well I really am not going to be imprisoned in the suburbs for dining in the west-end!

The majority of people are able to experience humour, i. e., to be amused, to laugh or smile at something funny, and thus they are considered to have a sense of humour.

Series such as Love Thy Neighbour and Mind Your Language, which attempted to find humour in racial or ethnic conflict and misunderstandings, were heavily criticised at the time.

The comedian Felix Dexter has said that he appreciated the humour of an innocent confronting an expert with neither understanding the other, but that ' I feel that a lot of the humour is laughing at black street culture and it is being celebrated because it allows the liberal middle classes to laugh at that culture in a safe context where they can retain their sense of political correctness.

The humour acquired a real edge with jokes that were both risqué and controversial, as homosexuality was still a crime punishable by imprisonment at the time in the UK.

These efforts at humour have sometimes had a mixed reception.

It frequently makes use of humour ; this perhaps reflects the sense of looking back at an earlier part of the century with affection, and Lewis as a middle-age man recalling his childhood during those years.

He was still in contact with his Shrewsbury friends, who had added John Wells to their number, and were now running their own humour magazines at Oxford, Parsons Pleasure and Mesopotamia, to which Rushton made many contributions during his frequent visits.

The kind of lofty and stately poetry that celebrated the achievements of these archaic aristocrats was within the reach of ' The Cean nightingale ', yet he seems to have been more at home in verses of a humbler and lighter strain, even venturing on folksiness and humour.

It cannot be denied that both Rivers and Haddon were serious about their work but at the same time they were imbued with a keen sense of humour and fun.

When asked about Irving ’ s statement that " more women died on the back seat of Edward Kennedy's car at Chappaquiddick than ever died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz ", Hochhuth dismissed it as provocative black humour.

He found his talent for humour at school and developed his musical ability by singing in the choir at St James's, his local church.

In Britain, innuendo humour did not transfer to radio or cinema at first, but eventually and progressively it began to filter through from the late 1950s and 1960s on.

Double entendres are popular in modern movies, as a way to conceal adult humour in a work aimed at general audiences.