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sketch Customer: What’s that fly(苍蝇) doing in my soup? Waiter: Swimming, I think. City Lights 《城市之光》 * Unit 3 A taste of English humour humour comedy n. 幽默；滑稽 n. 喜剧 Words preview Look at the following pictures. Which picture can make you laugh? Do you feel my love? I’m driving at a high speed. I want to lose my weight. I want to jump higher. Which one is Dolly? Fire! Do you know what a punchline is? Read the following jokes and find their punchlines. POLICEMAN: Why did you have to break into the same shop three times? THIEF: Well, I stole a dress from that shop but my wife didn’t like it. So I had to go back and change it twice! TEACHER: You say that John Jones has a cold and cannot come to school today. Who am I speaking to? VOICE: Oh, this is my father. What on earth is humour? Humour is a word means making others laugh. The emotion shows on people’s face means they are happy. So we can say it is humour. Its adjective is humourous. It is a word often be used to describe people if they often make others laugh. We often called them humourists (幽默大师). Humour means the quality in something that makes it funny and makes people laugh or the ability to laugh at things and think that they are funny. Humour is not always kind, some humour can be cruel. It depends on who is joking and who is listening. What does humour mean for you? Is humour always kind? How many kinds of humour do you know? Humour comedy jokes funny stories cross talk mine tongue twisters word play sketch (小品) comedy Chinese humor pantomime (哑剧) funny plays cross talk jokes doggerel (打油诗) English humor nonverbal mime verbal jokes funny stories funny poems varieties of humor The following pictures show you some typical actors or writers of humour. Do you know them and which kind of humour they belong to? mime Charlie Chaplin Mr. Bean funny stories Mark Twain Zhou Xingchi Ge You comedy cross talk Jiang Kun Tang Jiezhong Chen Peisi Zhao Benshan Chinese humorists Do they