Comparative Analysis of Verbal Humor in Preaching between Ustadz Abdul Somad and Ustadz Haikal Hasan

The purpose of this research was to find the exitence and the use of verbal in preaching of Ustadz Abdul Somad and Ustadz Hasan Haikal by analyzing the humor with a linguistic theory called General Theory of Verbal Humor (GTVH). This is descriptive qualitative research since the data was presesnted in form of explanation and deals with qualitive phenomenon related to quality and type. The results showed that there are 168 verbal humor found in 5 videos of Ustadz Abdul Somad preaching, where irony (37), wit (35) and satire (34) were the types of verbal humor that mostly used in his preaching. On the other hand, it was found 124 verbal humor in Ustadz Haikal Hasan preaching with the same amount of videos as the previous object. It was found that satire was the types of verbal humor that most frequently used with 37 occurences followed by irony (30) and wit (23). Furthermoore, it was also found that Ustadz Abdul Somad used 9 out of 12 types of verbal humor, while Ustadz Haikal Hasan used 10 out 12 types of verbal humor in his preaching.