Candice Yamm of Purgatory, Pennsylvania recently wrote us to declare her unabashed admiration. She writes, “Hey Danger Couch, you guys are pretty good,” she adds,” I definitely prefer you to elective surgery.” She also asks, “How is it exactly that you make people laugh?”

Well Candice, the biological process of humor is still a mystery to scientists, but then scientist are still a mystery to us: so we’re even.

Here is the process for you:

When you watch a Danger Couch episode, your eyes and ears are inundated with massive amounts of humor energy particles, or humorons as they are called. These humorons cause your retinas to release a chemical messenger called sightoplasm while simultaneously causing your eardrums to release a similar messenger known as soundoplasm.

These plasms wonder aimlessly around your nervous system until they meet up at the plasmmat, where they exchange gossip and catch up on old times. When enough plasms enter the plasmmat to start a really good party, the ribosomes next door become irritated.

This tickling of the ribosomes releases scores of other chemicals like yuckosites, laughagens and especially hectoplasm. Although almost entirely unheard of, hectoplasm is a critical link in the body’s humoro-nervous system. When this hectoplasm joins with any of the body’s natural supply of watha, the compound wathaheckoplasm is formed. Nobody really knows exactly wathahectoplasm does, but we can tell by the sheer length of its name that it is critically important.

So Candice, as you can see by now, humor is a highly complicated biological process, that is best left to the professionals.

Drop us a line if there is anything else we can enlighten you about.

-The DC crew