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Article: Exploring Geek Humor as Form of Entertainment Geek humor is rich and quite different from mainstream humor. While mainstream humor is more interested in the way of delivery (e.g. sarcasm, dry humor, slapstick, etc.), geek humor is more interested in topics normally associated with geek culture, such as computers, gaming, comic books, and mathematics. Thus, geek humor tends not to be understood by people who do not normally identify themselves as geek. There are cases wherein certain bits of geek humor are so well-known that even those outside the geek circle could understand the jokes, but this is not always the case. Read the complete article here: Full Article: Exploring Geek Humor as Form of Entertainment

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