Rickles as Sharkey put his insult humor to good use with the other characters.

While raising the ante for insult humor derived from dead-serious convictions, he is poised to discover whether comedy and campaigning can go hand in hand.

Her version of insult humor is actually flattering, both to herself and to those who find it funny.

There is also an unfortunate abundance of insult humor, in which laughs are intended to come out of one character's mockery or humiliation of the other.

What these distinctions ignore is that insult humour is only one kind of joking.

The jokes are often based in the kind of insult humor currently popular on sitcoms and cute similes like, "He's as dead as a deep-fried chigger."

But Mr. Stiles said that the kind of insult humor that is the main course at Friars roasts was not coming easily to him.

In between these bombshells come the jokes, starting with the inevitable insult humor.