The Uptight Citizens' Brigade

Standing in front of the studio audience while three cameras live-stream to YouTube, Charlie Todd offers a brief tutorial on improv comedy then issues a challenge to the countless viewers and Twitter users at home (literally, as no one knows just how many are there). He wants them to tweet jokes based on the topic #mygooglehistory.

Pulling from the tweeted responses, he reads one: "How to make my mom tell me she loves me," he says. The studio audience bubbles with a few random chuckles. "Maybe they're being a bit too real here," Todd says. Mind you, being arbiters of what's good is not the same as creating it. It's why you never see Simon Cowell take the stage and belt out a tune and Roger Ebert's lone screenwriting credit has a 5.8 out of 10 rating on IMDB. In short, no, not everyone can do this. Not everyone's a comedian.

But if anyone can find gold in the vast rivers of mud, it's Todd. With close-cropped hair, bright blue eyes, a perfectly manicured beard and grandma-polite demeanor, Todd is a breath of sanity from the classic mentally fragile psyche of a comedian. But you got to watch out for the quiet ones.

As the leader of Improv Everywhere , he has utilized his massive contact list to muster 207 "agents" to freeze in place for five minutes at Grand Central Station. He's wrangled 15 sets of identical twins to act as a human mirror on a New York subway train. And lately he's been co-opted by the digital world as the man most likely to find funny. "He changes people's thinking," says Anthony Batt, president of Ashton Kutcher's new media company Katalyst . "We wanted someone that maneuvers and manipulates the media through technology."

So Todd was tapped as host/teacher/moderator for the third installment of IdeaJam, a collaboration between Katalyst and microprocessing giant Intel. It's an interactive, experimental brainstorming effort in which a pro moderator leads experts and hand-picked participants in exercises and discussions. Then he opens the whole thing up to let members of the public at large interact with the big guns, via various forms of technology and social media. The goal is to get to the concrete center of the abstract concept of inspiration and collaboration--comedy, in this installment. As it emerges as the dominant force of online video and giants like YouTube try to bottle it for profit , IdeaJam wants to find out whether seemingly spontaneous (and viral) humor can be engineered.

"It's a lot like opening your fridge and pulling out a bunch of ingredients," Intel rep Laurie Koehler said before this latest Jam got underway. "You're not quite sure what you're going to make, but at the end of the day you have a great meal." Or Spam and eggs covered in ketchup.

When a blonde got a car : Jokes and Riddles

A blonde has just gotten a new sports car. She cuts out in front of a semi, and almost causes it to drive over a cliff. The driver furiously motions for her to pull over, and she does. The driver gets out and draws a circle and tells her to stand in it. Then he gets out his knife and cuts up her leather seats. He turns around and sees she’s smiling. So he goes to his truck, takes out a baseball bat, and starts busting her windows and beating her car. He looks back to see that she’s laughing. He’s really mad now, so he takes his knife and slices her tires. He turns around and she’s laughing so hard, she’s about to fall down. He demands, “What’s so funny?” She says, “Every time you weren’t looking, I stepped out of the circle!

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