TBS’s Dept. of Humor Analysis works hard to put the “very” in front of “funny.” To help TBS steer clear of common pitfalls in this cutthroat, dog-eat-dog, rabbit-outwit-duck, duck-shoot-pig, anvil-smush-coyote, Chico-trip-Zeppo field of funny business, Big Spaceship joined forces with the good folks at Mother to turn their very silly printed questionnaire into an addictive, fully interactive site. In this clinically antiseptic, digital environment, vulnerable specimens such as cheap puns, sausages and paleontologists undergo grueling and methodical prodding by an advisory board of blasé professionals, a.k.a. the site visitors. The collective genius of these discriminating minds is harnessed here in seminal humor studies ranging from anthropomorphizing staplers with little paper legs to throwing balls at almost-naked men. What results is a priceless compendium of humor knowledge that is analyzed, interpreted, deciphered, re-analyzed, redacted and promptly shredded by TBS.

Brilliant how the content, the writing and the interface work so fluidly together.
You want to keep playing.
Humor is so crisp that it doesn’t feel overwhelming.
Very, very well done. So much work went into it!