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Laughter: The Best Medicine

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The B B C, Commentators Are About a Cricket Game.

i want to play one more clip that shows uncontrollable laughterand and how strange it is. These these are professional broadcasters on live radio. Its almost asif something has taken over. There's something unbelievably powerful about the way laughter can overwhelm our motor system. So it stops us breathing, it stops us talking. That's a very, very powerful thing to happen. To actually render someone unable to speak is extraordinary. And right towards the end there, you heard brian johnson's voice. You ge, at times he can't talk at all. Other times he's goig os a fool othe and keepsthat, cause he's trying to talk through the laughter....

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