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 What’s funnier than death?
Clue: This is according to a novel entitled A Stranger in My Grave
Answer: Nothing. “There's nothing funnier than death, really, especially if you have an advanced sense of humor.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Margaret Millar, A Stranger in My Grave (1960), p. 11
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Which word is funnier: smudge or spot?
Clue: This is according to the book Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain
Answer: Smudge, as it is “funny sounding.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Christopher Hart, Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain (1998), p. 107
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Which word is funnier: food or snack?
Clue: This is according to the book Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain
Answer: Snack, as it is "zippy sounding” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Christopher Hart, Drawing on the Funny Side of the Brain (1998), p. 107 --- BillZeBebub writes: I always get these right. I mean every time. So there has to be an objective truth thing here. Even though logic tells me it "shouldn't work." But maybe it's the Dioscuri Effect thingie I have with you. I read a couple of your Hindpsych tarots from a while back and loved them. But I was believing it totally. Like unironically. Magical thinking makes a beeline to my "credibility neurons."
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What is funnier than the whole world? Clue: This is according to English novelist John Strange Winter (pseudonym of Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard) Answer: "The whole world is funny, but that part of it that calls itself dramatic is funnier than all the rest put together!" (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: John Strange Winter, Heart and Sword, 1898, p. 99
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Which number is funnier: 16 or 18?
Clue: This is according to the play Mr. 80% by James Sherman
Answer: 16 (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: James Sherman, Mr. 80% (1987), p. 14
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What is funnier than sex running wild?Clue: This is according to Nelson Algren Answer: "After all, nothing is funnier than sex running wild." (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: Nelson Algren, Entrapment and Other Writings (2009), p. 302
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Which are funnier: monkeys or husbands?
Clue: This is according to a lawyer
Answer: Husbands (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Ralph Bushnell Potts, Come Now the Lawyers (1972), p. 174
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True of False: Hash is funnier than croquette.
Clue: This is according to the book The Sense of Humor.
Answer: True. “Hash is immensely humorous, but a croquette is not. Yet, what is a croquette but hash that has come to a head?” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Max Eastman, The Sense of Humor (1921), p. 150.
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Which is funnier: comic actor W.C. Fields or the idea of W.C. Fields?
Clue: This is according to journalist Wilfrid Sheed.
Answer: the idea. “I have always felt that the idea of Fields is funnier than Fields himself; that even the face and voice he has taught us to remember are not quite the real Fields.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Wilfrid Sheed, The Good Word and Other Words (1978), p. 191.
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“What kind of fish sings an opera?” Which punch line is funnier: “halibut,” “mackeral,” or the real answer.
Clue: This is from Neil Simon’s Broadway Bound
Answer: Halibut. “I guarantee you that a halibut is funnier than the real answer. I mean, look at him. Sitting there with a hat on. If he put it on to be funny, it would be dumb. But he doesn’t know he’s got it on, so it’s hysterical.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Neil Simon, Broadway Bound (1987), p. 10.
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True or False: Arkansas is funnier than New York
Clue: This is according to a book about Arkansas.
Answer: False. “I certainly don’t see anything about Arkansas that is funnier than New York or Iowa or Indiana, and nothing even approaching Southern California.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.)
Citation: Clyde Brion Davis, The Arkansas (1940), p. 299.
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Which is funnier: the number 042 or the number 359?Clue: This is according to Douglas Adams. Answer: The number 359. "Incidentally, Douglas' aside that 359 is the funniest three-digit number turns out to be an example of his fixation with telephone numbers, which crop up frequently in the Hitchkhiker's Guide saga: 359 was the dialling code for his home in Islington.” (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: M.J. Simpson, Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams (2003), p. xix.
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Which is funnier: a cluck or a quack?Clue: This is according to cartoonist Matthew Diffee Answer: A quack. Diffee also notes that "waddle" sounds as silly as it looks. (The answer is in black text on the black background. Highlight it to view.) Citation: Mark Caro, The Foie Gras Wars (2009), p. 164
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