Which is funnier: underpants or underwear?

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

Answer:  Underpants.  (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)

True or False: Bar charts are 30% funnier than pie charts.

Clue:  This is according to a guide to drawing comics

Answer:  True.  “In fact, pie charts are barely amusing at all.”  (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)

Which New York City parade is funnier: Saint Patrick’s Day or Puerto Rican Day?

Clue:  This is according to comedian Jerry Seinfeld

Answer:  Puerto Rican Day Parade  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Jerry Seinfeld, “Inside Look,” Seinfeld Season 9 Box Set (2007)

Which is funnier: goats or sheep?

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

Answer:  Goats.  (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)

Which are funnier: Dogs or gerbils?

Clue:  This is according to comedy expert Peter Bergman

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

Citation:  Fred Goodwin, “The Infinite Mind: Humor” (1998), p. 8

Which number is funnier: 14 or 22?

Clue:  This is according to editor Robert Gottlieb

Answer:  22.  Catch-18 was the original title of Joseph Heller’s novel, but it was changed when a competing novel about WWII also had 18 in the title.  The number 14 was initially suggested, but Heller's editor Robert Gottlieb felt 22 was a funnier number than 14.  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  New York Times Review of Books (1967). 

Which is funnier: the pen or the sword?

Clue:  This is according to Socialist Review

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

Citation:  Peter Morgan, “Interview: The Pen is Funnier Than the Sword,” Socialist Review (Feb. 2005)

Which is funnier: eighty grand or a cigar?

Clue:  This is according to Always Tip the Dealer by Gary Ross

Answer:  eighty grand.  “Eighty grand looks funnier than a cigar.  A lot funnier.  People laugh.”  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Gary Ross, Always Tip the Dealer (1982), p. 145.

What is funnier than a fellow going off with the wrong hat at a restaurant?

Clue:  This is according to The Living Age magazine, 1901.

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

Citation:  The Living Age, Vol. 230 (1901), p. 716.

Which dog is funnier: a schnauzer or a bulldog?

Clue:  This is according to an attorney

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

Citation:  David F. D’Alessandro and Michelle Owens, Brand Warfare (2001), p. 60

In the film Monsieur Hulot's Holiday, which is funnier: the shape of Hulot’s car, or the noise the car makes?

Clue:  This is according to a film critic.

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

Citation:  Jay Leyda, Voices of Film Experience: 1894 to the Present (1977), p. 455.

Which are funnier: Chickens or ducks?

Clue:  This is according to comedy expert Peter Bergman

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

Citation:  Fred Goodwin, “The Infinite Mind: Humor” (1998), p. 8

Who are funnier in their vices: women or men?

Clue:  This is according to novelist Ernest Hebert

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

Citation:  Ernest Hebert, The Old American (2000), p. 255

Which is funnier: Seneca’s The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius or Byron’s Vision of Judgment?

Clue:  This is according to a scholar of medieval Latin poetry

Answer:  The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages (1927), p. xxv. 

What is funnier than the innocent bystander who gets a cream pie in his face, slips on a banana peel, and lands in a garbage truck?

Clue:  This is according to a legal expert

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

Citation:  Judith Nisse Shklar, The Faces of Injustice (1990), p. 36.

Which age is funnier: 39 or 40?

Clue:  This is according to comic Jack Benny

Answer:  39.  “The age jokes ... didn’t start until he was 55, and a nurse in a sketch asked him his age; he paused and said 36.  It got a big laugh, so he remained 36 for the rest of the season.  The following year, he was 37; in the next, 38.  He decided to freeze at 39, because it’s a funnier number than 40.”  (The answer is in black text on the black background.  Highlight it to view.)

Citation:  Garry Giddins, Natural Selection (2006), p. 33

Which are funnier: Ducks or dogs?

Clue:  This is according to comedy expert Peter Bergman

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

Citation:  Fred Goodwin, “The Infinite Mind: Humor” (1998), p. 8

I could actually SEE the answer without highlighting it today! What is going on?!? Am I developing Super X-ray Vision? Without even having to pay for the glasses! 

What is funnier: salmon or turkey?

Clue:  This is according to comic filmmaker Mel Brooks.

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

Citation:  Leonard J. Rosen, Writing and Reading Across the Curicculum (1988), p. 302.

Which is funnier: comic actor W.C. Fields “quiescent and smouldering” or “rampant and yelling”?

Clue:  This is according to drama critic Kenneth Tynan

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

Citation:  Kenneth Tynan, Curtains (1961), p. 355.

Which is funnier: light colors or dark colors?

Clue:  This is according to a guide to drawing comics

Answer:  Light colors.  (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)