10/27/2001 · A joke is a display of humour in which words are used within a specific and welldefined narrative structure to make people laugh and is usually not meant to be taken seriously. It takes the form of a story, usually with dialogue, and ends in a punch line.It is in the punch line that the audience becomes aware that the story contains a second, conflicting meaning.The word comedy is derived from the Classical Greek κωμῳδία kōmōidía, which is a compound of κῶμος kômos (revel) and ᾠδή ōidḗ (singing; ode). The adjective comic (Greek κωμικός kōmikós), which strictly means that which relates to comedy is, in modern usage, generally confined to the sense of laughterprovoking. Of this, the word came into modern usage ...
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