comic effect
Laughter-inducing outcome
Comic effect is the humorous impact created by deliberate artistic choices—timing, exaggeration, incongruity, or wordplay.
Something done for comic effect is designed to provoke laughter or amusement: She paused for comic effect before delivering the punchline.
The phrase often appears when analyzing how humor works rather than simply experiencing it.
- ironyMeaning opposite to words
- parodySatirical imitation
- laughterVocal expression of amusement
- bathosDeflating descent in tone
- satireMockery exposing vice
deadpan delivery · wit · punch line · absurdity · mirth · juxtaposition · amusement · funny bone · timing · hyperbole · incongruity · fish out of water · pun · chuckle · double entendre · anticlimax · slapstick · sight gag
comic effectpathos
Pity-evoking quality
heartbreak · melancholy · poignancy · horror · terror
comic effectdramatic tension
Anticipation in storytelling
dramatic effect · tragedy · gravitas · catharsis · dramatic irony
comic effectgravitas
Dignified, weighty manner
solemnity · seriousness · earnestness · portentousness · weightiness