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Puzzles and Games: Which is Funnier |
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In terms of being pelted by non-lethal objects, which is funnier? Lemons, rubber balls with "boop" written on them, tomatoes, or muffins?
(This is according to someone called DiMono on a Funhaus bulletin board.)
The answer also appears in Punch, 1863.
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Which words of this joke are funniest?
"The Pop-Tart suddenly appeared in the supermarket ... and we were like chimps in the dirt playing with sticks." —Jerry Seinfeld
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Which is funnier: a dog or an oyster, a monkey or an amoeba?
Clue: This is according to a philosopher.
Answer: "The funniest animals are not necessarily the ones to which we feel more superior; animals that remind us of ourselves are the funniest: so, for instance, a dog is funnier than an oyster; a monkey is funner than an amoeba." (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)Citation: Paul McDonald, The Philosophy of Humor
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Groucho Marx is surely funnier than Karl Marx1, but is Plato also funnier than Karl Marx, and is Barbra Streisand funnier than Plato2?
Clue: This is according to a logician.
1 As of this post, there are only two Google results suggesting that Karl Marx is funnier than Groucho. Alexander Baron notes, "Karl Marx is funnier than Groucho Marx in a sad kind of way." And a certain Shovelhead says: "The EU: Where Karl Marx is funnier than Groucho."
2 " Were space-time not linear and Plato could have Barbra Streisand speak next at that Athenian table (though of course he wouldn’t, as she’s a woman), he would undoubtedly have her sing 'People.'" —Richard Carpenter, "The Heart of the Matter"
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Which is funnier for stuffing a bra for a fancy dress party: a couple of oranges or ... what? We find the answer in the "Up Captain Peacock" episode of Are You Being Served:
And so we learn that tangerines are funnier than oranges.
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From the home office of Jonathan Caws-Elwitt:
(Literary scalawag Jonathan Caws-Elwitt’s plays, stories, essays, letters, parodies, wordplay, witticisms and miscellaneous tomfoolery can be found at Monkeys 1, Typewriters 0. Here you’ll encounter frivolous, urbane writings about symbolic yams, pigs in bikinis, donut costumes, vacationing pikas, nonexistent movies, cross-continental peppermills, and other compelling subjects.)
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 Which is funnier: a tuba or a French horn?Clue: This is according to humor historian Christopher Miller. Answer: a tuba is funnier (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: Christopher Miller, American Cornball
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Which is funnier: lunch or dinner?Clue: This is according to humor historian Christopher Miller. Answer: Lunch is a funnier word, but breakfast is the funnier meal. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: Christopher Miller, American Cornball
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Which is funnier: a mastodon or a pterodactyl?Clue: This is according to absurdist playwright N. F. Simpson. Answer: pterodactyl (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: N. F. Simpson, One-Way Pendulum. In Simpson's original version, the protagonists' daughter had changed herself into a mastodon on a whim, but in his film adaptation, Simpson revised the mastodon to a pterodactyl.
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 Which is funnier: an apple or a banana?Clue: This is according to a radio presenter. Answer: banana (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: Peter Stewart , Essential Radio Skills: How to Present a Radio Show (2010), p. 216
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Which word is funnier: tomato or banana?Clue: This is according to the classic satirical magazine Punch. Answer: tomato (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: Punch (1923)
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Which word is funnier: moist or supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?Clue: This is according to feminist/humour academic Gina Barreca. Answer: ..............moist................ (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: Gene Weingarten & Gina Barreca, I'm with Stupid (2006)
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Which word is funnier: bucket or pail?Clue: This is according to rhetoricians. Answer: Bucket. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: Wilma R. Ebbitt, William T. Lenehan, The Writer's Reader (1968)
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