Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.
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You learn what can become a good joke and can be repeatable. You have a shorthand about how to introduce a joke to someone.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
When someone pitches a joke for a character that is just perfect, and you can imagine that actor reading that line at your table read or on the set, it's like the sound of a snap snapping into place.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.
A joke is a way to say, 'I'm going to do something funny now. If I don't get a laugh at the end, I'm a failure.'
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.