"For the last month, I've been analyzing jokes from different comedians, looking for the root of why they're funny."
Don't forget to take into account the skill, voice, tone, cadence and delivery of the joke.
The same exact words said by different people different ways can be funny or not.
As an example using Mac Speech you can sometimes make even ordinary sentences funny because combining those ordinary words with a rote computer voice can be very funny.
I don't have a particular example handy but some of those http://www.xtranormal.com/ videos that I've seen are good at that.
Don't forget to take into account the skill, voice, tone, cadence and delivery of the joke.
The same exact words said by different people different ways can be funny or not.
As an example using Mac Speech you can sometimes make even ordinary sentences funny because combining those ordinary words with a rote computer voice can be very funny.
I don't have a particular example handy but some of those http://www.xtranormal.com/ videos that I've seen are good at that.