sardonic humor
Bitter, cutting jokes
Sardonic humor is comedy with a mocking, cynical, or scornful edge.
Unlike gentle wit, sardonic humor often targets human folly or pretension with a bitter or world-weary tone.
Someone with sardonic humor might respond to bad news with a cutting remark that acknowledges the situation while seeming to dismiss caring about it.
His sardonic humor made it hard to tell if he was joking or genuinely contemptuous.
- dry humorUnderstated, expressionless comedy
- deadpan deliveryEmotionless comedic performance style
- sarcasmIrony used to mock
- tongue in cheekHumorously insincere manner
- gallows humorJoking about grim subjects
irony · mockery · satire · biting wit · wit · sharp tongue · understatement · wry smile · cynicism · mordant · self-deprecation · epigram · absurdist comedy · detachment · disdain · dark humor · world weary · world-weariness
- witwit, witticism, quip, cleverness, repartee
- dark witblack humor, dark humor, caustic wit, biting wit, cynical humor
- comedycomedy, jokes, humor, puns, sarcasm
- clever humordry wit, wordplay, clever wordplay, clever banter, puns
- humor booksjoke books, one-liners, wisecracks, limericks, roast jokes
- mockerymockery, ridiculing, jeers, jeering, jibes
sardonic humorslapstick
Exaggerated physical humor
corny jokes · broad comedy · physical comedy · absurdist humor