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Examples
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Through an elaborate and well-played hoax, you brought a Kaufman-esque anti-humor to the American television viewing audience.
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And it would also be wonderful if the writers stopped taking their anti-humor medications.
Commander in Chief 2005
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Neil Hamburger has been derided and applauded, for several years at this point, for being the world's best worst comedian - his is a conceptual brand of deliberately antagonistic anti-humor that relies more on performance and delivery than the quality of his jokes.
Austinist bryan carroll 2009
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Of course these are well covered topics by many comedians, but you may have heard by now that Neil Hamburger's routine is that he's not funny, which is funny depending on your view of such anti-humor.
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"No soap, radio" is a classic example of "anti-humor" where the joke is that there's really not a joke.
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Austin Powers (the sequels dropped in quality precipitously), so it's no shocker that his latest outing failed to elicit belly laughs but I never thought was capable of anti-humor as severe as this.
DVD Verdict 2008
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But, it's all part of his schtick, and everyone from Tim and Eric to Jimmy Kimmel to the guys in Tenacious D have been able to find the funny in Hamburger's anti-humor.
Austinist 2008
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There’s some humor, but it’s kind of anti-humor; when Tommy Gunn shows up as the pizza guy, Navarro is ridiculing the tendency of porn to ridicule itself … it’s all very meta, but not so pompously so that it loses its sense of fun.
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Many people’s jokes have been of the “anti-humor” variety.
The Great Muffin Joke Debate Sean 2007
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