Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.
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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.
Surprises can be compelling.
I'm not good at telling a joke, but I can say a line in a certain way that makes people uncomfortable because they don't know whether to laugh or not, and I love that comedy.
Humor comes from self-confidence.
Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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.
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.
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.
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.