The spectacle of these primates, identified as white-handed gibbons, going apes**t over a rodent's presence in their enclosure was already funny enough in this video posted by SloggerVogger.
In comedy, editing sharpens something that's already funny, cutting out superfluous material and shaping the rhythm of a performance.
The scene is already funny because the competitors are playing on a bulky 1977 television while the hero's recent gift to his father, a flat-screen plasma set, sits unopened in a box nearby.
In other words, if it was already funny, if you didn't take it seriously for a second, the contrast between the two different meanings of this thing could never have clashed in the way that is necessary to make the laughter, to make it actually funny.
Alternatively, you can use something already funny to create a humorous cartoon.
"It's already funnier than 'Saturday Night Live,'" the review reads.
Around places where smart guys gathered there was already a funny feeling about this series.
He used consciously those elements which part of the public already found funny, bringing into a mass medium what was already a subject for satire among the knowledgeable.
Speech bubbles of in-tree commentary ("Did you get up here the same way?") add an extra dose of hilarity to what is already a funny situation.
