Comediepedia is a giant, colourful, slightly nerdy library of jokes. We've sorted 359,909 of them into 8 humor mechanisms, built a 7-step analyzer that explains the joke without killing it, and stuffed the rest of the place with tools, essays, and one very large pink button.
We mapped every joke in the archive onto eight engines. Pick one to see examples, theory, and ten ways to use it in your own writing.
A setup primes one script; the punchline reveals another, hiding in plain sight.
One word, two meanings, weaponized — puns, double entendres, homophones.
Something feels wrong — and safe enough to be funny rather than upsetting.
Someone looks foolish, gets one-upped, or loses status. The audience wins.
Tension accumulates around a charged topic, then discharges with a laugh.
Sustained nonsense that refuses to resolve. The laugh comes from giving up.
Jokes about jokes, anti-jokes, fourth-wall breaks — humor one level up.
Parody, satire, mimicry — humor that rides on recognition of a known target.
We run it through the 7-step Comedy Stack, name the mechanism, map the scripts, score the quality, and quietly suggest a tighter version.
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⚡ Example result on the right. Run the real model at /analyzer.
It's a wordplay pivot sitting on a single bivalent verb — cleanly compressed, mildly evergreen, and a little expected.
WORDPLAY secondary: INC-RESThe Comedy Stack is our X-ray. Forward, a joke is a setup walking toward a punchline. Backward, it's seven loadbearing pieces — each with a job, each something you can fix.
What the joke is technically about.
Plant Script A — the obvious frame.
The audience commits to the wrong reading.
The one word that swings the meaning.
Script B clicks into place. Cue laughter.
Which engine did the lifting.
Surprise · Compression · Originality.
Most jokes die at Misdirection (too obvious) or Compression (too many words). Almost none die at Premise.
Read the full method →Eight small apps for writing, practicing and performing comedy. Most are free. Two cost something because GPUs cost something.
Paste a joke, get a full mechanism breakdown, quality scores, an improved draft, and a single line explaining why it works.
Open the Analyzer →📓Capture, tag, version, and set-build. Notion for jokes.
For open mics. Vibrates at the warning. Doesn't lecture you.
Seeds a topic, three angles, one weird observation.
Scrolls your set on stage. Big type. No motivational copy.
Rewrites for compression, surprise, and cleaner triggers.
A chat trained on the corpus. Fluent in mechanism, allergic to slop.
A scaffold for setup → misdirect → trigger → payoff.
Track which mechanisms land in which rooms. For pros.
Long, opinionated entries on theory and craft. Citations included. We have the listicles too — they're around here somewhere.
Incongruity-resolution holds the field. Benign-violation does the dangerous work. Superiority gets a worse reputation than it deserves. Meta-humor is what's left for an audience that has seen everything else. A long walk through the lot.
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