at we are all in this human condition together.
Humor covers a wide spectrum of human activity, everything from the wordplay of a Mercutio or a Mrs. Malaprop to the slip-and-fall antics of the Three Stooges. In a very rough way, humor which is simply words and actions designed to cause laughter can be divided into two different groups: Comedy, the humor of exaggeration or incongruity, and Wit, the humor of analogy and word-play.
Both Wit and Comedy are in many ways bound up with culture, although Comedy (based as it is in use of the human body) is far more universal because all people can relate to some extent to physical humor since we all inhabit human form). As Berger (in Boskin, 1997) notes, "Humor is directly tied to the `cultural code' of a given country", to the assumptions about cause and effect, to the values, to the shared social, historical and artistic experiences held by a given group (p. 28). Slapstick is a form of Comedy; it exists in large measure outside the limits of culture and language that define humor because it plays upon
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