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Abstract The use of humorous commercials is quite evident in television advertising today. This article reports the results of a content analysis of over 2.000 television commercials. Humorous advertisements were analyzed and compared to non-humorous commercials with respect to their use of animation, the number of models, product handling, humor placement, multisense usage, and the direction of the humor.
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