ABSTRACT

Over the past several decades, humor has evolved into nothing less than a platform for human communication. Wit is the hallmark of intelligent beings. While humor has been part of the essence of being human since ancient times (Friedman & Friedman 2014), the infiltration of modern computer technology into all human endeavors has brought with it a sort of playfulness (Friedman & Friedman 2003), including the proliferation of irony on the Internet, and even the (non-ironic) reference to ours as the post-ironic age.