Visual gag

This image conveys a joke without the use of words.

In comedy, a visual gag or sight gag is anything which conveys its humour visually, often without words being used at all. The gag may involve a physical impossibility or an unexpected occurrence.[1] The humor is caused by alternative interpretations of the goings-on.[2] Visual gags are used in magic, plays, and acting on television or movies.

  1. ^ "Sight Gag Revival". Life. 3 February 1958. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  2. ^ Carroll, Noel (1996). Theorizing the moving image. Cambridge University Press. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-521-46049-1.