2: Laughter
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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The World's Funniest Joke
Two hunters round the woods. One of them collapses. It doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. His friend whips out his phone, calls emergency services. He gasps. My friend is dead. The operator says calm down. First let's make certain he's dead. Then she hears a gunshot. Back on the phone the guy says okay, now what? Really? That's the biggest reaction it's got in a decade. I think we found the color beige in joke form because this is the one that most people like. If you go to any one subgroup, any age group, any country, whatever, a different joke wins. But across
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