... in Clouds. In an exchange with Socrates, Strepsiades exclaims, "Yes, I revere you, much honored ones, and wish to fart in response." (Aristophanes, Clouds, 2931). On the other hand, Plato displays comedy as a more intellectual concept dealing quite a lot with puns and especially politics during Socrates' trial. Socrates has been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the youth and the penalty of death has been suggested. Socrates uses his opportunity to suggest an alternative punishment and suggests "to be given [my] meals in the Prytaneum2," (Plato, Apology of Socrates, 36d3). This ridiculous "hubristic and boastful"4 proposal can only be taken as comedy because having already been found guilty, Socrates' punishment must be exactly that, a punishment, and not an honor, never mind perhaps the greatest honor in the city. The other term that must be defined is "sense of humor" itself. In Socrates' context, sense of humor is ...

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