PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII

[Bruno]

I'd like to know what their "random"-ization method is. They seem to be selecting from three collections of first, second and third frames. The first frame is the setup, the third frame is the punchline, and the middle frame is the one between the first frame and the last frame.

It feels to me that too many of them make too much sense to be , like, computer random. More like a person is haphazardly assembling jokes from the sorted parts of other jokes.

[The Johnny]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor_in_Freud

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'd like to know what their "random"-ization method is. They seem to be selecting from three collections of first, second and third frames. The first frame is the setup, the third frame is the punchline, and the middle frame is the one between the first frame and the last frame.

It feels to me that too many of them make too much sense to be , like, computer random. More like a person is haphazardly assembling jokes from the sorted parts of other jokes.

To be honest, I think that's just your pattern-seeking  brain finding "sense" where it really is just a random assemblage of first, second, and third frames.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That, and the fact that the comics are drawn from a fairly limited set of subject matter.

[Bruno]

I'd like to know what their "random"-ization method is. They seem to be selecting from three collections of first, second and third frames. The first frame is the setup, the third frame is the punchline, and the middle frame is the one between the first frame and the last frame.

It feels to me that too many of them make too much sense to be , like, computer random. More like a person is haphazardly assembling jokes from the sorted parts of other jokes.

To be honest, I think that's just your pattern-seeking  brain finding "sense" where it really is just a random assemblage of first, second, and third frames.

Probably. I did notice one frame appearing once as a third frame, and once as a second.

It is all blue guy on left, green guy on right, with occasional frames of one appearing alone.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I'd like to know what their "random"-ization method is. They seem to be selecting from three collections of first, second and third frames. The first frame is the setup, the third frame is the punchline, and the middle frame is the one between the first frame and the last frame.

It feels to me that too many of them make too much sense to be , like, computer random. More like a person is haphazardly assembling jokes from the sorted parts of other jokes.

To be honest, I think that's just your pattern-seeking  brain finding "sense" where it really is just a random assemblage of first, second, and third frames.

Probably. I did notice one frame appearing once as a third frame, and once as a second.

It is all blue guy on left, green guy on right, with occasional frames of one appearing alone.

Do you read Cyanide & Happiness? Because that shit is just basically pretty interchangeable.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

http://explosm.net/rcg

I don't even know why it's funny.

does anyone know if there is anything like a formal humor analysis method?  something like sentence diagrams? 
i know there are different types of jokes - but they should, then, be classifiable, right?
i'm not having much luck with internet searches but it something i randomly get interested in and then forget about.

With regard to theories of humor:
https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/jokes.cognitive.txt
http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/articles/humor.html
http://myweb.brooklyn.liu.edu/jlyttle/Humor/Theory.htm

There are several joke generators, of varying degrees of complexity, but none of them really adequately test these models of humor -- because they lack the ability to model enough of the human mind to determine what consitutes novelty or transgression. Most of them are basically just pun generators.

[Trivial]

[Bruno]

I'd like to know what their "random"-ization method is. They seem to be selecting from three collections of first, second and third frames. The first frame is the setup, the third frame is the punchline, and the middle frame is the one between the first frame and the last frame.

It feels to me that too many of them make too much sense to be , like, computer random. More like a person is haphazardly assembling jokes from the sorted parts of other jokes.

To be honest, I think that's just your pattern-seeking  brain finding "sense" where it really is just a random assemblage of first, second, and third frames.

Probably. I did notice one frame appearing once as a third frame, and once as a second.

It is all blue guy on left, green guy on right, with occasional frames of one appearing alone.

Do you read Cyanide & Happiness? Because that shit is just basically pretty interchangeable.

Sometimes, and sometimes.

That blue guy / green guy 3 panel horse has definitely been beaten above and beyond the minimum acceptable amount.

[axod]

Somehow I feel the punch line is sub/supraliminal, in this case.  Very crafty.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think there's a Garfield randomizer that works pretty well, too.

Aha! Here: http://www.bgreco.net/garfield/

[Trivial]

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The pockets really take it to the next level.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That guy is classy. 

[Bruno]

I think there's a Garfield randomizer that works pretty well, too.

Aha! Here: http://www.bgreco.net/garfield/

Neat! I've driven a few people up the wall with the Explosm randomizer. Time to double down!