practical joke - For April Fool’s Day I thought it would be hilarious to wrap up my flatmate’s car with wet toilet paper. She was absolutely furious and couldn’t see the funny side., pun - My father-in-law asked what I thought of the soup he had made. I said ‘It’s soup-er!’ and cracked up, but he didn’t get it., slapstick - My four-year-old niece was making a huge fuss about putting on her shoes. To make her laugh, pretended to try to put her shoes on my feet, and then my hands, and then my ears, which of course looked incredibly ridiculous. Not only did she laugh, I also got her to put on her shoes!, black humour - My colleague told me her pet bird had died, and she had got another one that was identical. I joked ‘Why on earth would you want two dead birds?’ She just went really quiet., deadpan/dry humour - My new friend offered me a cup of tea, and I admitted that I don’t actually drink tea. She said, while keeping a completely straight face, ‘Sorry, I can’t be friends with someone who doesn’t drink tea.’ I was pretty sure she was pulling my leg though., satire - I wrote a fake interview with our mayor for my university’s student newspaper, exaggerating her views about issues to show how extreme they were. I got a lot of comments about it, although some people thought I really had interviewed her., stereotype - At a party, I was introduced to an accountant and I made a joke about how he must be really wealthy. He didn’t look amused., irony - My friend and I had been relaxing on a gorgeous beach all day. ‘It’s a hard life, isn’t it?’ commented my friend. I smiled and replied ‘Yeah, totally miserable.’,

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