Dry humor

Dry humor is a technique of humor that derives its effect essentially from the fact that the respective utterance is not recognizably accompanied by emotions and can therefore only be indirectly exposed as a joke . The content of such a statement is particularly often sarcastic .

A typical representative of dry humor is British humor , which also has sarcastic content and black humor .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} English humor characteristics. Retrieved November 21, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Dry humor at helpster.de. Retrieved November 21, 2014 .