This study describes the choice of humor style used to reduce the anxiety experienced by Balinese people during the Covid-19 pandemic and also explains the language variations as well as linguistic phenomena for constructing a humor. The relationship between humor style and linguistic features is expected to explain the specificity of the humor discourse structure of Covid-19 in Balinese language. The data of this qualitative study were obtained through note-taking and sorting out some short films which were displayed on YouTube from April to May 2020. Furthermore, there were 13 discourses used as data source, and some of the humor styles include affiliative, self-enhancing, aggressive and self-defeating. The humor functions as a foundation for information on topics arranged deductively and inductively. The variations in Balinese language used are variety of kepara (general) and kasar (low). Also, the dominating linguistic phenomenon includes code mixing and switching, as well as semantic inaccuracy regarding word similarity. This study can establish public-communication model in a friendly atmosphere to eliminate the impact of socio-psychological gap.

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Classroom action research is a research that raises the actual problems faced by teachers in the field. By carrying out classroom action research, teachers have a dual role, namely practitioners and researchers. Scientific publications by teachers are basically a form of teacher professionalism. The purpose of this service is to find a solution to the problem of the lack of knowledge of teacher human resources in making scientific papers in the form of classroom action research. These problems can be overcome by increasing capacity through learning and socialization through two approaches, namely training and mentoring. In general, the implementation of PKM at SMA Negeri 8 Denpasar has been running smoothly according to a predetermined schedule. In the implementation of PKM, the socialization of the 1st and 2nd stages has made a lot of progress. In the implementation of PKM UPMI at SMA Negeri 8 Denpasar as a partner school. Teachers' understanding of the substance of writing scientific articles for publication in journals with ISSN and carrying out CAR increases with assistance. Teacher motivation in writing scientific papers has grown, and there is a willingness of teachers to start writing proposals. This is an indicator that the skills of teachers to write rich scientific writing are increasing. The results of the CAR have been presented in seminars as a requirement for promotion for teachers to a higher level.