Wikipedia:Peer review/Surreal humour/archive1

Surreal humour
I've created Surreal humour, and I'm rather proud of it, but the style is a little different to the usual article. Hence I'm submitting it to peer review to check I haven't gone completely nuts. Maybe the herring is too much? Rls 02:56, 2005 Mar 11 (UTC)

Very nice, overall. I would break it up slightly into parts (for example, famous users of surreal humour), examples of surreal humour (put your joke there to refer to it) and add a caption purporting that cow image to be a possible example of surreal humour. (And yes, while the herring looks very nice, it doesn't add much content. The cow photo is good enough, in my opinion.) Good luck! CryptoStorm 06:41, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Well I've added a bit more about Monty Python, but I can't bring myself to delete the herring. It's an demonstration of how unreferenced moments of surrealness are significantly funnier than ones which are. Rls 02:39, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC)

It strikes me as a good start. You might want to add some references (Monty Python spring s to mind), and wikilinks to other forms of humour. WegianWarrior 08:46, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * I've done my best! I couldn't think of any other users of surreal humour nearly as famous or influential as the Pythons however. Rls 02:39, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC)


 * I believe both The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Discworld by Terry Pratchett are good examples. --Klhuillier 15:26, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)


 * Douglas Adams does often use themes of surrealism in his work (more frequently in his Dirk Gently books I would argue), but I don't agree that Terry Pratchett generally does. I've added Adams, and the Simpsons and Futurama. Rls 20:50, 2005 Mar 25 (UTC)


 * After looking back at Pratchett I agree. His world is a very strange parody of ours, but lacking in surrealism.  I haven't been able to think of others that might be good as examples. --Klhuillier 20:59, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)