Abstract: Humor is important in our life. With humor, we can reduce stress, stimulate creativity, enhance communication, intimacy and self-confidence, release fatigue and tension and motivate to work. Anyone can do humor including the lecturers at IAIN Kendari. This study examines humor discourse of IAIN Kendari lecturer in socio-pragmatic perspective. This study aims to determine the deviation of pragmatic aspects in creating humor and its socio-linguistic factors. The result shows that the lecturers of IAIN Kendari always use the deviation of pragmatic aspects namely the deviation of cooperation principles, irregularities of politeness principles and pragmatic parameter deviations. Socio-linguistic factors which underlying the emergence of lecturer humor discourse consist of setting, scene, participant, ends, act of sequence, key, instrumentalities, norm of interaction and genre.