You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.
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Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.
Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
My favorite kind of humor is basically, if it was happening to you, it wouldn't be funny, but to observe it, it's hilarious.
Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else.
The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.
The secret to humor is surprise.
Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.