Types of humour.

I read elsewhere about four types of humour:
Puns
Observational comedy

One liners
Rants
Repartee
Riposte
Anecdotes

Slapstick
Stand-up
Surreal

Mask
Disguise 
(costume)
Being yourself
Being somebody else
Being two contrasting characters
Playing a host of character 
The same character in different hats
Acting different characters - only revealing yourself as all of them at the end

Being an observer

Characters
Know it all
Depressive
Optimist
Pessimist
Realist
Religious
Political
Profession
trade
transport workers
recorded announcements/ satnav voices/ speaking clocks/ phone answering machines

Foreign languages:
signs
brochures,
marketing questionnaires
hotel receptionists

Primary school children
teenagers
teachers

Topics:
Medicine, doctors, nurses, vets
ages, toddlers, teens, young married, 7 ages of man, elderly, heaven
Mechanical objects which thwart you
Forms of transport

Travel: passport, security, ferry, bus, train, plane, ski lift, fairground
Holidays; packing a suitcase
putting up a deckchair
missing the flight

Angela Lansbury, author and speaker.ACG. CL. Winner of more than 60 ribbons for best speaker, best evaluator and best table topics speaker (impromptu speeches).