Military humor

It comes in a wide array of cultures and tastes, making use of burlesque, cartoons, comic strips, double entendre, exaggeration, jokes, parody, gallows humor, pranks, ridicule and sarcasm.

[3] Notable cartoonists of military humor include Bill Mauldin, Dave Breger, George Baker, Shel Silverstein and Vernon Grant.

Comedy films about World War II include Buck Privates (1941), Stalag 17 (1953), Mr. Roberts (1955), Kelly's Heroes (1970) and Catch-22 (1970).

(1962–63) TV series (about a young veterinarian drafted into the Army and stationed in Paris), are totally devoted to the military theme.

Notable books include Shel Silverstein's Grab Your Socks (1956), Jaroslav Hašek's The Good Soldier Švejk (1923) and Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.

Reader's Digest's Humor in Uniform (1963) is a collection of short true anecdotes depicting amusing experiences in the armed forces.

Military humour in the South African Defence Force (SADF) was to be found less in jokes than in humorous expressions and comments.

It often comes from the mouths of Instructor Corporals addressing trainees: Plays on words were also popular, for example: Like any other army, there were also standard slang terms for equipment and uniforms: The various corps had humorously insulting names for each other.

[11] Before the FEB entered combat, the expression "a cobra vai fumar" ("the snake will smoke") was often used in Brazil in a context similar to "when pigs fly".