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Thursday, August 03, 2006

On the need for a numerical scale for measuring humor

I invented this idea many years ago. The humor index would be used to rate jokes, stories, anecdotes, movies, or any medium that was used to relate something that is meant to be funny. Like a clown.

The Humor index would assign each attempt at humor a number, or humerical value, from 1 to 10. I will give an example of this scale using examples that are overused to describe things that may or may not be funny. Using these unoriginal examples will help less clever people use the scale properly.

1- According to Jim or anything with Jim Belushi (No laughs, maybe some tears of sadness)
2-Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football (A slight, occasional half-smile at best)
3-Bill O'Reilly's most riduculous item of the day segment (A full-on smile or an incredulous snort)
4-Becker (Silent agreement with the laugh track, some smiles)
5-Weekend Update on SNL (Ha but not Ha Ha)
6-A mediocre episode of the Simpsons ie the one where Homer moves in with the two gay guys (The occasional outloud laugh with a constant of appreciation of its attempts at relevance and cultural awareness)
7-Tommy Boy (Some big laughs, some little laughs, and the sight of the character is somewhat amusing)
8-Swingers (Big Laughs, light tearing, as funny the second or third time)
9-The Family Guy scene where Peter is on the dating game and responds to the inquiry of how he would eat the girl if she were an ice cream cone, thusly "I'd try to eat you real fast, before I went flaccid" (Big laughs, definite crying, somewhat uncontrollable)
10-Larry David, Ricky Gervais, The best Simpsons episodes, Arrested Development, The Big Lebowski (Belly-aching uncontrollable laughter, mandatory repaeat viewings, repeating the lines and scenes in everyday conversations, shouts of "IT'S GENIUS")

and finally
11- Ayush Amatya ( A constant never-failing source of uproarious laughter)

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