shakspears funny bone
Shakespeare’s funny bone To create humor in drama, one must either make witty wordplay, create an amusing situation, or use physical comedy. ... Sometimes the ignorant use of the wrong word is funny simply because stupid characters look foolishly pretentious. ... This malapropism is doubly funny, because instead of using the word that Quince meant to say, "paragon" (an example of perfection), he says "paramour", which means mistress. ... Her misplaced anger and verbal abuse of the lovers and of Hermia, whom she suspects of joining them in humiliating her, is also very funny.