In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...

This week I’m going to be taking a look at sarcasm. If that revelation just prompted you to say to yourself, “Big deal, Mr. Word Guy,” well, congratulations. You just used sarcasm. I also plan to take ...

Roseanne Barr is notoriously sarcastic and pointedly snide. A committed Jew and liberal activist member of the Peace and Freedom Party, she recently employed dark sarcasm in her attempt to ridicule ...