Science of Laughter
The Infinite Monkey Cage
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The Illusion of Spontaneity
Some comedians are extremely good at constantly creating the idea that the thought has just come to them. But if someone's done the act for too long, there's a point where it dies in them. We found out that some jokes you can say exactly how long it will be before the end of the punchline and the beginning of the laugh. You can absolutely predict it. And we learned that jokes written by computers were terrible. One I can remember was what kind of murderer has fibre, a serial killer. That came bottom of the thing.
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