Humor and decommitment refers to the function with which humor felicitates deniability. Often it happens that we pass down a comment in social interaction and when we feel that stating this comment might bring ethical or social repercussions, an individual also tends to cover up that comment by pretending that the previous comment was a joke. As opined by Franzini (2012), decommitment in humor also allows one to make potential use of humor to examine and to violate social norms by speaking about an action which would otherwise be unacceptable.