Humor Vs Comedy

Plenty of people tend to draw conclusions between comedy and humor. According to my dictionary these two words do not belong in the "circular" definitions usually found in "dinky" dictionaries (those pocket sized ones which are useless).

Example: Cat = animal; Animal = cat or Comedy = humor = comedy. Obviously these words haven't been well defined by the editors and they are misunderstood or lazy. They do not mean the same at all, check in your bumper dictionary.

You could say good writers create humor while slick comedians do comedy. It is funny in today's world how comedians (the ones who employ good humor writers) rip off celebs, politicians (don't they deserve it) dignitaries, religious figures—or anyone in the limelight.

Check out some of the stars in "American Idol" who have made silly or outrageous comments usually about their competitors (Adam Lambert comes to mind.) They are asking for a broadside from Jay Leno to David Letterman.

There is nothing really new in comedy, it has all been written before. Take for example when Al Franken said "I am not a member of any organized religion, I am a Jew." He heard that joke from a Catholic and substituted Jew for Catholic. And so it goes. How many times have you heard WC Field's "Anyone who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad!" -or variations of this?

So where did this Funny Joke come from?