True or False: A Hitler mustache is funnier than any other mustache.

Clue:  This is according to a guide to drawing comics

Answer:  True.  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Suck School of Comic Art, Suck.com, (Nov. 7, 1997)

What is “more humorous than the unconscious contradictions of earnest thought”?

Clue:  This is according to a Yale professor.

Answer:  Nothing.  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  George Angier Gordon, Ultimate Conceptions of Faith (1903), p. 141.

Which is funnier: Vancouver in the snow or rubber toothpicks?

Clue:  This is according to Ralph Milton, author of inspirational books

Answer:  Vancouver in the snow.  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Ralph Milton, Angels in Red Suspenders (1998), p. 81.

Which philosopher is funnier: Spinoza or Voltaire?

Clue:  This is according to a Torah scholar.

Answer:  Voltaire.  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Jacob Neusner, The Life of Torah (1974), p. 100.

Which is funnier: An attempt by Lucy to stomp grapes or a “shot to the moon” by Jackie Gleason?

Clue:  This is according to a book on how to construct sketch comedy

Answer:  Lucy stomping grapes  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Cherie Kerr, Build to Laugh: How to Construct Sketch Comedy With the Fast and Funny Formula (1998), p. 13

True of False: Soup is as funny today as it was a few years back.

Clue:  This is according to the book The Sense of Humor.

Answer:  False.  “Soup is still funny, but not as funny as it was a few years back.”  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Max Eastman, The Sense of Humor (1921), p. 150.

What is “more humorous than passionate attempts to invent artificial languages, Volapük, Esperanto and what not, to do the work that the English language is already doing all over the sea, and will, apparently, soon be doing all over the land”?

Clue:  This is according to essayist Theodore Watts-Dunton

Answer:  Nothing.  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Ernest Rhys, Modern English Essays (1922), p. 120.

Which city is funnier: Racine or Oshkosh?

Clue:  This is according to comedy t.v. writer Jerry Rannow

Answer:  Oshkosh  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Jerry Rannow, Writing Television Comedy (2004), p. 87.

Which is funnier: spoons or forks?

Clue:  This is according to someone dissatisfied with his job at a marketing company.

Answer:  Spoons.  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  John Kowalik, “Being John Kowalik,” JohnKowalik.com (April 25, 2007)

Who is slightly funnier: a homosexual or an ordinary person with a job?

Clue:  This is according to the television series “Will and Grace”

Answer:  Homosexuals  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Richard Hunter, World Without Secrets (2002), p. 78

Which word is funnier: mail or junk mail?

Clue:  This is according to the book Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain

Answer:  Junk mail, as it is “low rent.”  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Christopher Hart, Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain (1998), p. 107

Which word is funnier: pizza or sandwich?

Clue:  This is according to the book Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain

Answer:  Pizza, as it is “more specific.”  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Christopher Hart, Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain (1998), p. 107

Which is funnier: “whiskers” or “mutton chops”?

Clue:  This is according to literary humorists Jonathan Caws-Elwitt and Laurence Sterne.

Answer:  mutton chops. Mr. Caws Elwitt explains: “In a room full of ordinary words, I feel that ‘whiskers’ would most likely be the life of the party. But the triumph of ‘mutton chops’ is, I think, overdetermined, given the inherent silliness of both of the two individual words; the synergistic effect of their combination; and the conceptual silliness of describing facial hair with reference to a food.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)

Which is funnier: yesterday’s newspaper or today’s newspaper?

Clue:  This is according to a political scientist

Answer:  Today’s newspaper.  “Every day’s newspaper is funnier than the last, because it’s all serious reporting in a ridiculous context.”  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Ethel Grodzins Romm, The Open Conspiracy (1970), p. 100.