Best of Summer: The 100-million-year origin story of laughter and humor
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The Humor of a Chimp
"It's all humor, they're just different kinds. Would I call it witty? No, but it's definitely got some quality slapstick potential right there." "I was pretty excited by this video, because I saw this as chimp-slapping at chimp comedy," he says of a clip showing two monkeys playing with each other in front of a pile of hay. 'Did someone slip on a banana peel? Do they find that funny?' asks the host about an ancient Sumerian joke. "'A pant grunt' is kind of a greeting,' one chimpanzee responds to being told off for throwing his excrement into a big old pile of hay,'" Ben replies.
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