incongruity
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Incongruity is one of the fundamental forces in the universe of comedy: take two things that don’t usually belong together; throw them into the same sentence; hilarity ensues.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2017
Incongruity has a lot going for it—jokes with punch lines, for example, fit well.
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2014
A group of Canadian researchers reported on "Ethnic Humor as a Function of Social-Normative Incongruity on the Basis of Multiple Dependent Variables."
From Time Magazine Archive
The essence of Mark Twain's humour is Incongruity.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
Incongruity, however, is of the very texture of Synge's art, which has reconciled qualities, as I have said, never before reconciled in English literature.
From Irish Plays and Playwrights by Weygandt, Cornelius
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