Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy. Slapstick may involve both intentional violence and violence by mishap, often resulting from inept use of props such as saws and ladders.
A slapstick scene from the 1915 Charlie Chaplin film His New Job. Chaplin started his film career as a physical comedian, and his later work continued to contain elements of slapstick.
A slap stick
Advertisement for Punch and Judy showing Punch with his slapstick (1910)
Fred Karno, music hall impresario and pioneer of slapstick comedy
Humour or humor is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours, controlled human health and emotion.
Humour can be a way of dealing with the menacing or unpleasant: Sprayed comment below a memorial plaque for Alois Alzheimer who first described the memory-damaging Alzheimer's disease – the German text means "Alois, we will never forget you!"
Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton enjoying a joke, in spite of their language differences
A person working in a retail store wearing a large pair of pants in an attempt to amuse those around them
A man laughing
