Observational comedy is a form of
humor based on the commonplace aspects of
everyday life. It is one of the main types of humor in
stand-up comedy. In an observational comedy act the comedian "makes an observation about something from the backwaters of life, an everyday phenomenon that is rarely noticed or discussed." The humor is based on the premise of "Have you ever noticed?" (or "Did you ever notice?"), which has become a comedy
cliché. "Observational humour usually took the form of long monologues of personal narrative, and the punch-line was either hard to predict or never came."