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  Satire

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• Word play

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• Sketch comedy

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• Improvisational comedy

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• Insult comedy

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• Cringe comedy

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• Wit

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• Physical comedy

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• Deadpan

  Deadpan is a form of comic delivery in which humor is presented without a change in emotion or body language, usually speaking in a casual, monotone or very serious, matter-of-fact voice and expressing an unflappably calm, archly insincere or artificially grave demeanor. The term "deadpan" first...