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Why Do We Laugh? with Nuar Alsadir

Factually! with Adam Conover

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The Power of Laughter

Laughter is a way of getting something out of you in the same way as tears or vomiting. Laughter can feel almost orgasmic because it's so pleasurable. And if you wanted to get Duchenne laughter out of people, you would want to go for some kind of joke that would cause them to pull something repressed out of their unconscious.

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