Humor: Definition & Examples

The humor genre is simply defined as a story about the ridiculous of life and/or the folly of man.
 
Examples of the humor genre in television:

• The Beverly Hillbillies
• The Brady Bunch
• Gilligan's Island

Examples of humor in literature (last two are the subgenre of satire):

• Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
• Amelia Bedila
• Tom Sawyer
• Orwell’s Animal Farm
• Cervantes’s Don Quixote