Impact of Humorous Advertisements on Customers’ Behavior

Humor has a universal language. It doesn’t need degrees in obscure languages, hardly ever in Clinical Psychology and it is one of the few devices used to make people smile and think at the same time. Humor has been widely used in advertising. However, while humor has attained popularity in advertising, its use is continuously being debated. The reason for this debate is that there are a number of both positive and negative effects which can be attributed to the use of humor. The purpose of this research paper is to answer following questions: a) The impact of gender & age on the degree of affection to the ads. b) The effect of humor appeal in Ads, on the consumer’s buying decision. To develop the conclusions exploratory & descriptive research designs are used. Primary data are collected with the help of Focus group technique & questionnaire method & data is analyzed with the help of various statistical techniques. The conclusions of this paper help in clarifying the dilemma of humorous advertisements.