Among the typical human universals, humour is a stratagem of establishing relationships and achieving integration, a method to enter discourse and dialogue. Numerous questions of identity are dealt with humour and its almost instant consequence, laughter, as both codify a mode of self-expression and facilitate human interaction, providing an emotional context for communication and communion. Socially and politically, humour is a strategy employed to approach serious topics, a weapon authorising the exploitation and explosion of exclusive structures. Pointing to the inappropriate codifications of human behaviour, it is intended to undermine prevailing patterns, to expose and challenge stereotypes, to mock clichés.