Audience Pleasures – Horrible HistoriesVariety Familiarity/ repeated elements Types of humour

Physical humour/ slapstick

Toilet humour/ scatalogical humour

Wordplay/ linguistic humour

Black humour

Visual comedy

Participation/ Feeling part of a group Relatability/ Identification with character types or situations

We learn Escapism and Silliness

1. Things that are out of place (this is called incongruity, or anachronism if it is something from another time that is out place)

2. A sense of rebellion/ anarchy/ anti-establishmentism

3. Intertextuality/ references to media and advertising

4. Puns or wordplay

5. Footnotes and asides 6. Slapstick/ physical humour 7. Opportunities for participation 8. Irony or sarcasm

9. Speaking directly to the camera/ Breaking the fourth wall

10.Black humour 11.Toilet humour (this is called Scatological humour)

12.Variety

13.Familiarity/ repeated elements

14.Visual comedy 15.Eccentricity 16.Escapism and Silliness