In the Importance of Being Earnest there is a great mix of effective high and low humor. The low humor is easier to detect and can relate to physical joking or farce. High humor is a little harder to detect, this can consist of satire or puns that relate to the time period. A very humorous instance of the book was when Jack was distraught over a woman and his friend was eating a muffin, he then said
“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.", and his friend replies "Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them." This was a classic instance of Wilde's satirical tone towards the class of the society.
My favorite piece of modern humor is probably shown in the TV series Family Guy. Seth Macfarlane constantly jokes at the rituals and actions of our society and many others. Many puns and hypocritical statements are the baseline of the comedy and add a nice twist to regular comedy.
