Summary: The research methodology and procedures drew from a broad disciplinary foundation in comedy, philosophy, theatre, dance, history, and my own background as a comedic performer. Slowly a picture formed of a series of complex structures, worlds in which comedy in dance exists, each with its own logic, codes, and canons. Comedy within each dance work is a capsule of information informing the larger picture of that work which becomes a framework for studying the contingent particularities of the comedy existing within it (Roche, 1998). Each work has a unique enclosed system of actions that clarify a new reality. The similarities and differences within these systems provide insight into comedic dance as an epistemological enterprise.