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Richard Osman's love of language

Word of Mouth

CHAPTER

The Joy of Making People Laugh

I think once you do make anyone laugh, you don't want everyone to do anything else. They say that children laugh 30 times a day and adults laugh about four times a day. It's just incredibly important to me to always have jokes and to always find jokes in unusual places. Some people say it's one of the ways we keep tragedy at bay or even death at bay. But most of the time I think we're allowed to kind of go, 'Just give me five minutes death'

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