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Best of Summer: The 100-million-year origin story of laughter and humor

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The Origins of Humor

Endless Thread is a weekly podcast from WBUR, Boston's NPR station. In this episode, Ben Brock Johnson and Anne-Marie Siewritzen deconstruct the origins of humor. They explain an unexplainable joke from the forgotten tablets of the past. We're going further back than Sumer to find out how laughter came to be.

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