Aw come on, Murray, haven't you heard that the first baseball game is mentioned in Genesis 1: "In the big inning"; and in Job we find the shortest man alive: "Bildad the shuhite (shoe height)"
As for the Jewish humor, most of the prophets used irony frequently in their writings. The problem is that we miss it for having to read translations that do not translate the funnies.
Since none of us will probably learn Hebrew, we'll just have to miss the best laughs. But they are there.
Oh, and somewhere in the Psalms it says of God that He laughs. One reference that comes to mind is this verse: "He who sets in the heavens laughs".God has to have a sense of humor; I notice whenever I look in a mirror.
charles