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Humour
How is American, British and Russian humour is different?
What is the English for «анекдот»? What meanings does this word have? What are the rules of this genre?
Are there some universal things that would be considered funny by people across the cultures?

Humour these days
How do you think the humour has changed over the past 30 years?
Do we laugh at the same things? Has topics changed?
When we want to make others laugh what do we usually do? Used to do 10+ years ago?

Fibre

Cereal – serial
serial killer/
murderer etc

Surreal humour or surreal humor (also known as absurdist humour or surreal comedy)
is a form of humour is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical.
irrational or absurd situations and expressions of nonsense.

Punchline

Sense of superiority
Get your own back on people in authority
Feel good at the expense of others
Sigmund Freud
Subconsciously
Everybody worries to greater of lesser extent about …
Is not a laughing matter
Anxiety-provoking situation
Those who are in power (the authorities)