WorksheetsTheories of Funniness #2
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 20mins
Humor gives you a break from tension.
Someone does something that makes the audience laugh in relief during a tense situation.
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
The audience laughs at something or someone who appears to be more stupid than they judge themselves to be.
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
People laugh when things that are not normally associated with each other are put together.
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
Someone passes gas in an awkward way during a very serious test which causes laughter to erupt from the entire class.
What theory?
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
In the movie, Monsters, Inc., the monsters are afraid of the little kids. Normally kids are afraid of monsters.
What theory is this?
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
A guy thinks he is super smart and great at his job. Yet, he thinks that a computer is talking to him when clearly it can't be.
What theory?
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
A person is in a creepy, haunted house. They open up a door to a room because they hear noise in there. Instead of finding something creepy, the person finds a cat playing with a toy.
What theory?
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
A person trying to ride a hoverboard for the first time, thinking they will be amazing at it. Instead, they fail...miserably.
What theory?
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
In Star Wars, General Hux (a bad guy) tells Poe (good guy) that he will destroy him. Poe should probably be scared. Instead he makes a joke.
What theory?
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
Geniuses who act childish.
These are two complete opposite ideas. What theory is when you have two things that are opposites put together to create humor?
Release Theory
Superiority Theory
Incongruity Theory
