According to (former) Onion Editor-In-Chief Scott Dikkers
- Irony – Intended meaning is opposite of literal meaning
- Character – Comedic character acting on personality traits
- Relatable – Common experiences that audiences can relate to
- Shock – Surprising jokes typically involving sex, drugs, gross-out humor, swearing
- Reference/Parody – Mimic a familiar character, trope or cliche in an unfamiliar way
- Hyperbole – Exaggeration to absurd extremes
- Wordplay – Puns, rhymes, double entendres, etc.
- Analogy – Comparing two disparate things
- Madcap – Crazy, wacky, silly, nonsensical
- Meta-humor – Jokes about jokes, or about the idea of comedy
- Misplaced Focus – Attention is focused on the wrong thing
Do you have a favorite "kind" of joke or is it more about the execution? Do you have a least favorite kind?
Do you agree with this theory of comedy or are there more types of joke?
Where would purposefully out of tune music fit here? It's long been known as the only kind of humor with no victim.
i'd say that falls into madcap and meta humor.
That's fair, I think madcap does cover it. It's a pretty solid theory overall.