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The Study of Gender Humor Discourse in ‘Friends’ Comedy Series

. The study focuses on the gender humor discourse in the comedy series " Friends ". The study's objective was to classify the gender humors present in the comedy series " Friends ". Critical discourse analysis and a qualitative descriptive methodology were both used in the study. The study's data comes from gender humor discourse-heavy scripts from the television sitcom " Friends ". Martin et al.(2003)'s classification of gender humor types was employed in the study. The four categories of humor identified by Martin et al. are affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive, and self-defeating. According to the study's findings, 26 clauses of various humor types were identified, including: eight (31%) types were self-defeating.Self-defeating types appeared frequently in the 'Friends ' comedy series, with seven aggressive types (27%) and six affiliative types (23%) and five self-enhancing different types (19%).