Human is well known as homo ludens namely human is delighted in play. One of plays is words play in form of humorous utterances of madihin. Humour has functions to entertain and to stimulate happiness and laughter of audience. This article aimed at revealing the functions of humour in the utterances of madihin Banjar. This study used theoretical and methodological approach. The objects of the study were humorous utterances in the twenty art performances of madihin Banjar. The methods of analysing the data were Heuristic Leech (1983), normative and interactive analysis model as proposed by Miles and Huberman (1992:18). The functions of humour studied were based on Danandjaja (2002)’s theory namely (1) to protest social, (2) to educate, (3) to entertain, (4) to fix moral and characters.