Crosstalk and the variants of it-the short messages of mobile phone, are typical representative of Chinese verbal humor.

Through the deviation study of humorous short messages, this paper gives us a conclusion as follows: first, a great deal of degree deviation can be found in the humorous short message.

There are a lot of humorous utterances in SMS text. Humor in SMS text is amusing which reflects the SMS text writers'wisdom and life attitudes and brings us great pleasure.