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Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're

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listening to Science Versus. Today on

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the show, we're pitting facts against

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funnies. And by the way, today

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is our 200th episode of Science Versus.

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Can you believe it? 200

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episodes. That is so many

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facts versus other things. Thank

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you so much for listening and for being

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on this big journey with us. It's

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been so fun. And so to

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celebrate our 200th

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episode, we are going on

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a ridiculous journey together. Today,

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it's a quest. It's

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like we're going to be heroes

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on this epic adventure. And

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at times, things might get

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a little rude, a little

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naughty, just in case this kid's listening.

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But before we go any further,

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like all hero's journeys, we're going

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to need a companion. You know,

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like Robin to Batman, Samwise Gamgee

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to Frodo Baggins, Buzz to Woody.

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And our companion today is a man who

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has gone on a great many scientific quests.

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He's traveled the world, put one foot in

1:14

front of the other. I

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give you co-host of Radiolab,

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Latif Nasser. Hello. Hi,

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thank you for having me. And I'm

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honored to be the Frodo to your

1:26

Batman or whatever is the... I'm

1:28

honored to be here. So do

1:30

you want to know our mission? Yeah.

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Okay. We're going

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to find the funniest joke in the

1:38

world. Wow, that sounds

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dangerous. Well, I know. I know.

1:42

It sounds dangerous. It sounds big, but

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I'm going to keep it safe. I'm going to keep it safe. And you

1:49

might be thinking, why? Why are we doing this?

1:51

So I wanted to tell you the origin story

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to this hero's journey. Okay,

1:55

right. And it doesn't get much bigger than this. So

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the other day... I was feeling a little bit

2:01

sad. I wanted a little pick me up. So

2:04

I went to Google, the world's

2:06

funniest joke. Right. And you

2:08

know what I got? What? It was

2:10

trash, it was absolute trash. Sure. Like,

2:14

you know, did you hear about the rancher

2:16

who had 97 cows in his

2:18

field? When he rounded them

2:20

up, he had a hundred. Oh,

2:24

that's not even, that's

2:27

real bad. Yeah. That's

2:30

solemn. Like you could tell that at a funeral.

2:32

I was like, this is making me feel worse. So I

2:34

kept trying different search terms and then I got clapped like

2:36

this. What has many keys

2:38

but can't open a single lock? What

2:42

has many keys but can't open

2:44

a single lock? A

2:46

piano. Yeah. I

2:49

mean, to me, that's not a joke. That's

2:51

like a riddle or like it makes sense. That's

2:54

a riddle. It like belongs in Lord of the Rings, right?

2:56

Like it's not a joke. It's

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not a joke. It's not even close to a joke. And

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so I just thought we could do better, you

3:03

know, using research and rigor. You and me, we

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could do better. We could find the

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best joke. Okay, wow. You know,

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there are other things that could tear you up. Like,

3:12

I mean, sugar,

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antidepressants, a hug. There's

3:17

like a lot of other things that you could

3:20

do but just not to, I'm not judging your

3:22

life for anything. No, no, that's, you

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think Googling the funniest joke probably wasn't

3:26

like a long-term solution. Not a

3:28

long-term solution, your problems. Yeah, that's basically

3:31

where I'm coming from. But

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I thought. You thought it was. I couldn't

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hear. Okay,

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so to start us off,

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I wanted to know if it was even

3:47

possible to find the funniest joke in

3:49

the world. Right. So I asked

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a bunch of comedians this very question. Okay, great.

3:54

So here are their answers. So

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this is what US comedian Tim

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Notaro. Brilliant comedian. Yes, she was not

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optimistic. Do

4:03

you think we can find this joke? Sure,

4:07

over and over and over again. Because

4:09

it's going to be different opinions. You

4:12

know. Yeah. And Takashi

4:15

Wakashugi, who's from Japan, agreed the

4:17

tig saying, you know, comedy is subjective,

4:19

people have different opinions. That's why being a

4:21

comic is so hard. And he said,

4:24

you know, in many ways telling a

4:26

joke, it's like having sex. We

4:28

want to make you feel better. We do always

4:30

do our best. Right. But

4:33

sometimes we don't know what you want, what you

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like. Right. And

4:38

some people make noise.

4:40

Right. Like it. And

4:42

some people don't make noise, even

4:44

though they enjoy it. And you

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think and you can't use the same technique on everyone. No. It's

4:49

a suggestion. Yeah, this is hard.

4:52

Yeah, it's hard, right? And then so I asked my

4:54

very good friend who's an award-winning comic in Australia,

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Penny Greenhulge. And I just

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like really thought I'd get a supportive answer here. Do

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you think I can do it? No. No.

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Penny! I think I reckon

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you'll try your hardest. Let's try again.

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That was good. I'm good as freaking nice. Okay.

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So you think I can do it. Wendy, I

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am your friend and as your friend, I'm

5:18

going to be honest with you. Yeah. I don't think you

5:20

will. With friends like that.

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Yeah. Latif, I

5:24

could see your face dropping. Yeah. But

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I just want you to know

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that some comics were on Team Batman

5:31

and Friday, Team Wendy and Latif. Yeah,

5:34

yeah, yeah. Like, here's what Malaysian comic

5:36

Dr. Jason Leung said. Uh-huh. Okay.

5:40

Wow. I suppose technically it's possible.

5:43

I suppose technically it's possible.

5:45

That's a ringing endorsement. He

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even had a strategy for us. He said, get a

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few jokes, get a big enough sample size voting system

5:52

going across the world. Thought

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we could do it. Emmy Award winner,

5:57

Lonnie Love, in fact, had so much up

5:59

to it. optimism for us, that

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she even gave us our first clue. This

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is something simple that people usually laugh

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at. And it's right there

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in front of your face. You

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know, it's right there. And

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it's something that everybody can laugh at.

6:17

It's funny because like to the critique

6:20

of the premise was this is too

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complicated, right? Yes.

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And then this solution for

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the quest, like it's just go

6:29

simple, which I think

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is right. Yeah, I think that's

6:33

right. And like even if there's

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no such thing as the perfect

6:37

joke, there is somewhere

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the joke that

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more of the eight billion people on planet Earth

6:46

will laugh at than any other joke. Do you

6:48

know what I mean? I

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think so. I think so. I think

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that's right. Even if everyone in the

6:55

world doesn't find it funny, it's still

6:58

helping lots of people. Yeah,

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yeah. But it's mild on their face. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

7:02

There must be something. There's got

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to be. Okay, with this enthusiasm,

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Play responsibly. Welcome

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back. Today on the show, our biggest

8:26

challenge yet to find the funniest

8:29

joke in the world.

8:31

We're here with Lassie Pnassa. How are you feeling

8:33

about our chances at this point? You

8:36

know, I wouldn't bet for us, but I

8:38

wouldn't bet against us. That

8:41

is very ambiguous. That's great.

8:45

Do you have a joke to enter

8:47

into our funniest joke competition? Okay,

8:50

so this is the thing that my

8:52

two year old said. This is like

8:54

a few months ago, and it alternately makes

8:58

me laugh and like kind of

9:00

like horrifies me. Okay,

9:02

so one day I was going out. He was sitting,

9:04

he was playing like just by the door. And I

9:08

was going out and I was like, okay, bud, like,

9:11

I'm going to take out the garbage. And

9:15

he goes, why don't you

9:17

take your face? That

9:19

was it. He completely roasted me.

9:21

Like no, nothing, nothing

9:24

before it. Nothing that came out

9:26

of nowhere. Why don't you take

9:28

your face with the garbage? Because

9:33

your face is garbage is what he's saying to

9:35

me. My son, my own son, my own flesh

9:38

and blood. That's pretty good.

9:40

That's pretty good. Take your face. Our

9:43

first entry into the world's funniest

9:45

joke competition. Okay. But

9:47

now we have our first scientific

9:50

guest here and she is going

9:52

to set the stakes to tell

9:54

us how important our quest is,

9:57

our quest to find the funniest joke in the

9:59

world. So meet Sophie

10:01

Scott. I'm a professor of cognitive

10:03

neuroscience at University College London. This

10:05

fancy person, as part of her work, researches

10:07

laughter. And

10:10

she told me that there is a gaggle

10:12

or giggle of research out there that shows

10:14

why laughing matters. So what's curious is that

10:16

we, as humans, we're not the only animals

10:19

to laugh. Rats do a kind of

10:21

playful vocalisation. That is, if you tickle

10:23

them just right. What you need to do to tickle a rat

10:25

is you need to tickle them on the nape of the neck.

10:28

That's what I really tickle. But just sort

10:30

of between the shoulder blades. Primates

10:32

like chimps do a laugh. Chimpanzees

10:36

laugh. It sounds

10:38

very like our laughter. It's like a

10:40

kind of... This

10:43

is an actual chimp laughing. Isn't

10:48

that impersonation very good? She did

10:50

great. Yeah, yeah, that was spot

10:52

on. But even though there are other creatures

10:54

out there that do a kind of laugh, there

10:57

are things that are very special

11:00

about our human laughter. And

11:02

one of them is this. Humans laugh loud.

11:04

We love to be heard.

11:06

We broadcast our laughter. What

11:08

a weird, sort

11:11

of obnoxious thing. Like,

11:14

for us humans, like, we're the

11:16

loud laughers of the animal kingdom.

11:18

Like, what a weird thing. I'm

11:21

desperately trying to laugh quietly right

11:23

now. But

11:26

like, imagine like on Noah's Ark or whatever, it's

11:28

like we're the ones laughing and everyone else is

11:30

like, oh god. We

11:33

get it. Like, you're having fun. We're

11:35

all having fun just going... That's

11:38

right, right. We're just doing it breathy and

11:40

over here and to ourselves. And you just

11:42

like really are rubbing it in. Yes, yes.

11:45

But that is exactly what we

11:48

think the evolutionary purpose of this

11:50

is. Right. Show that we

11:52

are laughing and possibly to get others laughing

11:54

too to bring joy because we're

11:56

the only animals, as far as science knows,

11:58

that have contentious laughter. start laughing,

12:01

you're more likely to start laughing. We're

12:04

way more likely to laugh when other people are

12:06

around versus when we're alone. And

12:08

Sophie has found that when it comes to

12:10

jokes, the power of laughter is so strong

12:12

that it can turn a terrible joke into

12:15

a funnier joke. So she

12:17

actually did this study where she

12:19

got some jokes. We took real

12:21

stinkers like, what's the best day

12:24

for cooking? Friday? Oh, yeah.

12:27

So she got these terrible, these stinkers

12:29

as she was at these terrible jokes.

12:31

And she found just by adding a

12:33

laugh, people would rate these stinkers as

12:36

funnier. And for Sophie,

12:38

there's like all shows that laughter is playing

12:40

this like really important role in

12:42

connecting people. So there

12:44

really is something very basic

12:46

about the ability of laughter,

12:48

perhaps to dump the gaps

12:50

between humans. If we

12:52

could find a joke to get the whole world laughing.

12:55

I mean, we'd be Nobel

12:57

Prize winners, at least like, Ig

12:59

Nobel Prize winners. Yes. Okay,

13:01

not to not to throw a monkey wrench in here to

13:04

your but but so. So

13:07

it's true laughter is this thing

13:09

that you know, it's like you laugh in the whole

13:11

world laughs with you and that but

13:14

laughter is also can be savage.

13:18

So there's laughing with and there's

13:20

laughing at is the other thing

13:22

because it's like who's the butt of the joke and

13:25

how so it's like, so we're playing with some high,

13:28

like high stakes here because we

13:30

could also we could bring the

13:33

whole world together. But we could

13:35

aim collectively ridicule and

13:37

humiliation, we could divide

13:39

but that I feel

13:41

like to get the funniest joke in the world

13:43

because yes, and studies have indeed found that

13:46

surprise, surprise if you if you make

13:48

ethnic and racist jokes, if you are

13:51

all that group, ridiculed, or if you

13:53

even just care about the group being

13:55

ridiculed, right, find the joke less funny.

14:00

I studied it was an if are now

14:02

on blasphemous jokes that money in christians found

14:04

them less funny that atheists and really bad

14:06

very similar sense of humor. So I feel

14:09

like because of this year were going to

14:11

find the funniest second the wow He cannot

14:13

say it cannot be at the rain We

14:16

cannot be right because were really we need.

14:18

we need to maximize the amount of people

14:20

that we. Are bringing joy Teresa? Yes, no,

14:22

but I I agree. Okay, so with that

14:25

in mind with the Slopes truly sex at

14:27

this point? Yeah, yeah. He is

14:29

Now we just gotta find. The stock. Look.

14:31

At where the thought. The. Way it or.

14:34

I. I had pottering around on the internet,

14:36

even though that did not give me the funniest

14:38

jokes. But. It did

14:40

bring me to dispel on. Richard.

14:42

Wiseman, a professor of psychology

14:44

at the University of Hertfordshire

14:46

in he buys notoriously funny

14:48

university considering that bone headed.

14:50

South Side for our class.

14:53

Oh, that's right of the great Okay, I'm in. I'm

14:55

in the South. In the early two thousand, Richard

14:57

was asked to come up with this big.

14:59

Science Public Projects. It was for.

15:02

Us a fancy. British Science Association

15:04

and not think of anything.

15:06

But as he's walking through the

15:08

doors. Of the meeting. This idea just

15:11

popped into my head. Which. Was

15:13

the search for the world's funniest jumps.

15:15

Twins these twenties and that was

15:17

my pitch. Simply sat down. It's

15:20

as if we can search the

15:22

world's funniest joke. As

15:24

they went, that's a great idea. Let's

15:27

do that. Said, Didn't expect them to

15:29

say to be honest loses. Doyle. This is

15:31

that valley. So I explained as

15:33

situation our situation. Of course

15:35

I. Write. Matter that that, we're going to find

15:38

the world's funniest south and I didn't know how to

15:40

do this on the now. all we have I guess

15:42

is some like crappy. Sorry about pianos

15:44

in case. You know

15:46

that? That's so funny. How that's not

15:48

the funniest joke in the works? Wouldn't it be

15:50

sad is that was the funniest jokes in the

15:52

world as had one when oh my god is

15:54

the piano shows we Love Black except for the

15:56

exactly what experience you have pets into at it

15:59

was the one I. The years ago as

16:01

I go back to the same university half

16:03

a T s as they were going to

16:05

find the world's funniest joke and I went.

16:07

great. How we gonna do that and I

16:09

silicone? no idea, I didn't get that far.

16:11

The Pitch: We've got. nothing. Bicyclists okay, very

16:13

reliable. I like to stay alive although I

16:15

have no idea what is it and. Then

16:17

they come up with a plan. A

16:20

radical plan. Nothing. Too radical for

16:22

the two. Thousand we decided to be food

16:24

com um to the internet the newly

16:26

formed into that they witness. I could

16:28

type in their favorite joke and submit

16:31

it and they would rate the jokes

16:33

submitted by others. Ah and at the

16:35

nowadays you go will have pushed you

16:37

to do that in people over the

16:40

world but back then there was a

16:42

while collecting data. By. The web.

16:45

right? So Richardson actually has to

16:47

develop a website from scratch that the

16:50

do all the Us where people could

16:52

come online submit Souks last, they'd be

16:54

given different joints and then they would

16:56

write funny They are. So they get

16:59

this website done. Now they

17:01

just need to get some publicity

17:03

because this whole experiment is sinking

17:05

on lots of people going onto the

17:07

website like a big enough sample

17:09

size to submit jokes advice that breath.

17:11

But it says that getting publicity

17:13

was.a problem because what's news outlets around

17:16

the world found out about this

17:18

company said they laughed it. Off.

17:20

And he goes viral. He goes all over the

17:22

world, the science, to searching for the world's funniest

17:25

joke. What makes one

17:27

first and last a good on his and for

17:29

us and friends the search is no on to

17:31

find a way and funniest jokes that was a

17:33

lot of pressure. There was a lot of pressure

17:35

like and his grandfather was on his job. Sir.

17:39

Hans begins. And

17:42

so people, right, it's it's out on

17:44

a little. I mean, yeah, I will

17:46

when we were such as a gigolo months

17:49

ago. Hour long as as long as Angelo

17:51

Botha ah at it was very scientific had

17:53

five ratings on a from not price on

17:55

the i would you be the the piano

17:57

the jokes or would be no very funny

17:59

of foods moderately. Funny. And then

18:01

onto absolutely hilarious. I can't say

18:03

the ranking is one to five

18:05

so thank totally. Whacked in? People are coming

18:08

on to the sites. You know,

18:10

roads. Granted, Very. Early on before

18:12

putting good insights onto the

18:14

website of course. But.

18:16

Then big as my okay with that know

18:18

is I know. I so in this experiment

18:21

they actually removed the daddy does Does

18:23

This is a big family experiment. Of

18:25

like okay science verses. okay oh god

18:27

it says you're doing. you're doing all

18:29

the all the way all the job

18:31

to do all that the yeah but

18:34

visit removes, removes the rejects. okay. But

18:37

as the competition is something along

18:39

that one day Richie Sexson but

18:41

the tame. Something. Sees

18:43

this jealous that would send

18:45

him and now us. On

18:48

a rather interesting partisan. Only.

18:51

Lead to be endless stairs. To

18:53

cross into Mordor Order. Said

18:56

he has the dec two thousand the

18:58

field once against the other and says

19:00

move and the other one says i

19:02

was gonna say that's not that all

19:04

mad old shows oh my God bless

19:07

probably have a two or three on

19:09

the giggle. Amundsen. Yeah. Yeah I was

19:11

greeted us two or three said. Clearly that's not going to

19:13

be the without of a the Ritz it's composition or

19:15

as said it did make recent group. Where

19:18

does that? Could we do? an experiment

19:20

with human experiments? For Sir Richard. Wonder

19:22

like what if we tried at different

19:24

thousands of this power joke by switching

19:26

up with animals a malignant melanoma that

19:28

about why one says is funny and

19:30

one jack. Oh yeah, so you

19:33

could have to Lions one says the other

19:35

and rules of the offices I was

19:37

gonna say that less funny, that less funny.

19:39

Inches as I am. Other ones

19:41

outside, two birds going to ducks.

19:44

One says quacks send has two

19:46

dogs. Bump off I gonna say

19:48

that Know so funny. Know.

19:51

Maybe that's funny, maybe that's funny, but not because

19:53

of the noise, but because dogs are so really

19:55

the bomb. Okay,

19:58

So. We're. So Liquid

20:00

puts a bunch of the sexy to deliver

20:02

mail and people come on, they might be

20:05

randomly given one of those jokes are so

20:07

with which do you think? it is the

20:09

funniest quote that. Yes,

20:12

It was that was the winner. They

20:14

are located to ducks one says quack

20:16

and the other one says i was

20:18

gonna say that. Said. It's a

20:21

dress it is. Why is? Cracking

20:24

So far the okay and why

20:26

and it turned out the ducks

20:28

and quiet off on the words

20:31

yeah. And said what is it

20:33

about that and why they funny,

20:35

I mean allies in miss fabulously

20:37

named paper. Middle East with

20:39

the lab mix and boobs. What makes

20:41

some words are nice, nice and his

20:44

what they did that use this survey

20:46

data square. Hundreds of people had been

20:48

asked to write the funniness of thousands

20:50

of English words. some and they use

20:52

basically the equivalent of that giggle ah

20:54

madame, For. You want to

20:56

play Just. Yeah, definitely juju.

21:00

To. Do is funny here

21:02

to to so chauffeur says

21:04

they're. Not sending

21:07

or g g. Not.

21:09

Funny how that. Holder.

21:13

Have the. Not. Funny

21:15

Dell holder is the least funny

21:18

word has. Lots.

21:25

Of assets at the Selfless in

21:27

the Us milk is holders so

21:29

functional. It is. and you

21:32

basically think the right order to set

21:34

of the was like Id and do

21:36

do with Rags To As that about

21:38

defending his head. Then old he.

21:41

Considered pretty varied. so sorry

21:43

about that said. Hello! That

21:46

not funny at illness or that's

21:48

yes, so the researchers said poured

21:50

over this dataset to create an

21:52

algorithm move Funny words that they

21:54

then applied to more than forty

21:57

five thousand to Inglis. When had

21:59

I am. The you have the

22:01

Excel spreadsheets right here if you wanna.

22:03

Love. Okay, Okay, okay okay

22:05

okay. I'm. I'm

22:08

almost more serious. What Are the words at

22:10

the very bottom of? The little test

22:12

very interestingly I is the

22:15

least funny. Wire and be a court

22:17

on him. Word said he. Is.

22:19

Harassment. Harassment.

22:23

Status and it sits. Debates?

22:25

Me Wanna make a joke

22:27

where the one sided harassment

22:30

never been. So.

22:32

The. Researchers threats rear and swam in

22:34

that go to try and see isn't

22:36

as to what is funny and what

22:39

is not and one thing that really

22:41

time month. Is. That certain sounds

22:43

are funny. Like. Editing

22:47

with a hard time. So.

22:50

Clown, a duck and Quacks Duncan quite.

22:52

Both of them have a. Say rights

22:54

and and it's funny because his

22:56

comedy day. So there's an episode

22:58

of the Simpsons about it. Like

23:00

comedians know about her. This a

23:02

thirty rock has a joke about

23:04

and really last year accused me

23:06

of to destroy her because the

23:08

lines didn't see any say sounds

23:10

which he thinks it's the funniest

23:12

sound. Oh. My. God. my cousin current crashed his

23:14

car and that was in a com as a symbol

23:17

of west. Coast

23:19

did. Not

23:22

as far as I could tell. No

23:25

one has repeated this experiment in a

23:27

non English language. And

23:29

because we're looking for the funniest said. In the World?

23:31

Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I wanted to

23:33

ask comics or not this in

23:35

other languages so what would have

23:37

sat with Amazon? Unfortunately, the Egyptian

23:40

comic Mohammed Mad see what is

23:42

a funny word in Arabic? So.

23:44

greece is what he said i think

23:46

the word for a shout luck out

23:48

the seller to find them to be

23:50

just quite funny school fuck off the

23:52

gao cause the i average of two

23:54

k exact uk very don't actually you're

23:56

right oh my god or gods worth

23:58

half What? I

24:03

love that that's the thing. It's like he was like,

24:05

oh, vaccines? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I guess maybe. But

24:08

it's like, oh, but this K thing, like, oh,

24:10

we're really on to something here. So

24:14

other sounds in English that are funny.

24:16

Yeah. Ooh, ooh sounds.

24:18

So like booby, whoop. Booby.

24:21

Yeah, sure. As well as

24:23

words ending in Y and luh. So

24:26

like giggle and waddle are also

24:28

fun. Yeah. As

24:30

a general rule, letters and sounds that

24:33

aren't very common tend to write as

24:35

funny. So cut sound is

24:37

pretty rare. And also,

24:39

if you have this weird collection of

24:41

sounds in a word, that's going to

24:43

be funny. So I talked about this

24:45

with comedian Tig Notaro. So we were

24:48

talking about funny words. And she

24:50

said a co-host on her podcast,

24:53

Hanson, said this. Bulbous

24:56

frog. And I

24:58

couldn't move on. I'm sorry, we have

25:00

to go back. What do you mean a bulbous frog?

25:03

Also, the delivery of

25:06

this word kept hat, like, yes. And the

25:08

bulbous frog. And it was so bulbous. And

25:10

I was like, stop saying

25:12

that word. Like,

25:15

it made me sick to my stomach.

25:17

But I also recognized it as a

25:19

funny word. Yes. And according to the

25:22

Wrigley Squiffy paper, bulbous does rank pretty

25:24

high. All right. Huh, yeah. So

25:26

I kept looking for clues in other

25:28

languages as to what words might be

25:30

funny. So smart. So smart. So I

25:33

talked to Indian comic, Rujashvak, about

25:35

this. She won the Best

25:37

Newcomer at Edinburgh last year. Ooh. In

25:39

Sydney. She's performed all over India. And

25:41

she told me that there are a

25:43

few words that often get a laugh.

25:47

There's this word called chinchbokli. Which

25:49

is, yeah. That's very funny. It's

25:51

very funny. It's a chinchbokli. Chinchbokli. It's

25:53

a bliss. It's a place.

25:55

Chinchbokli. Chinchbokli. And every time someone says it.

25:58

He doesn't have a K, right? Chinchbokli. Yes,

26:00

yes, yes. But that's not why it's funny, right? I

26:02

don't... Maybe it's the chinch.

26:04

Yeah. If it's so thin and

26:07

then the pokli is so wide and you're

26:09

like, why did you put that together? Just

26:13

pokli. Just pokli. Just pokli. Just

26:15

pokli, right? Oh, so good. Satisfying.

26:18

It's a neighborhood in Mumbai.

26:20

Now, what makes words funny

26:22

isn't just their sounds, it's also

26:24

their meanings. So in English, the

26:27

study found that rude words, words about

26:29

body parts and bodily functions, insult

26:31

words also rate as funny. So

26:33

this thing with insulting words

26:36

being funny, it seems to track in India

26:38

too. So Ruj told me

26:40

about one more. And we're about

26:42

to get a little bit rude here. Great. Is

26:45

it uu funny in India? Uu is funny.

26:48

I think uu is funny. Gu,

26:50

oh my god, the word gu

26:52

is so funny. Gu basically means shit.

26:58

And so each shit

27:00

in Hindi is guka. And

27:03

that usually gets a laugh. So

27:08

after the break, we're going to

27:10

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funniest jokes in the world. And

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a dungeon master And my paladin

29:01

is a lot of Nasa hello.

29:03

Has. Set. As. Or.

29:06

On this journey for the. Funniest search in the world's

29:08

you. Any potential hip hop in our

29:10

plan is is different. Countries and

29:12

cultures have vastly different senses

29:15

of humor and. You

29:17

he talked about like even when I was living

29:19

in New York people would like to talk about

29:21

how stallions of such a different sense of humor

29:23

to Americans. And

29:25

so I looked into the recess or

29:28

mad right at at what big study

29:30

published a few years ago that a

29:32

dud surveys out the of a d

29:35

twenty eight countries the those thousands of

29:37

thousands of people have on they did

29:39

find like people from I'm Denise or

29:41

in Japan tended to use self disparaging

29:44

seamount say making fun of themselves while

29:46

rusher in Estonia. Scored high on

29:48

aggressive seem odd that might involve

29:50

belittling or teasing of is. So

29:54

there are some differences. The

29:56

other thing is. for

29:58

all the use results

30:01

in scientific papers like to highlight.

30:04

The research paper ultimately concluded that

30:06

there are, quote, more

30:08

similarities than differences across

30:10

the countries. Yeah. Yeah,

30:13

I believe that. I believe that. Yeah,

30:15

I think that's right. Yeah. And

30:17

some of the comedians that I spoke to

30:19

about finding the funniest joke in the world

30:21

said that as long as we make sure

30:24

our joke doesn't

30:26

have very specific cultural references in

30:28

it, like talking about the politics

30:30

of a specific country or town

30:32

or whatever, as long as we stick

30:35

to universal themes, sex,

30:37

bodily fluids, family dynamics, like we're

30:40

going to up our chances of

30:42

finding this joke. But which is

30:44

why bodies are so, yeah, bodies

30:47

work. Bodies, animals. Yeah,

30:49

I like that. I like that.

30:51

So now let's fast forward to

30:53

the end of Richard Wiseman's experiment. A

30:55

year has passed. He's

30:57

gotten 40,000 jokes, hundreds of thousands of

30:59

ratings from 70 countries. And

31:03

Richard told me that by the end

31:05

of the experiment, it was really clear

31:07

that this competition was over. You

31:10

could see the same jokes coming in

31:12

again and again. If I read what's

31:15

brown and sticky, a stick. If

31:18

I read that one more time, every morning,

31:20

three or four people would put that in.

31:22

How is it? Did it rate well?

31:24

No, no, no, no. It was always

31:26

down there with pianos. It was

31:30

never did well. And funnily

31:32

enough, 20 years later, we

31:34

did a call out on social media

31:36

and this brown and sticky joke came

31:39

up over and over again. Wow.

31:42

Okay, so, Lassif, are you

31:44

ready to hear the winner of

31:46

Richard's competition? Yes. Do you

31:49

want to do a little drumroll, by the way? Oh, good.

31:57

There are two hunters, out in the woods. One of them

31:59

collapses. Never seem to be breathing.

32:01

his eyes glaze. His friend websites phone

32:04

calls, the emergency services it has. my

32:06

friend is dead. What I do we

32:08

operate to as calm down I can

32:10

help first as my son he's dead

32:12

as a silence than a gunshot and

32:14

and guys back on the phone he

32:17

says okay now what. Assistance

32:22

with. Joe

32:24

though we did. I

32:27

liked it so I told it to

32:29

a bunch of our comedians and okay

32:31

to. Rather than reviews.

32:34

Okay, okay okay, let's hear it.

32:39

As a great job of down. Yeah.

32:44

That's the we. Were released.

32:47

Yet they're like a plot funniest joke in the world

32:49

as a bad so what are you. Aiming at

32:51

I'll give it our i would you be that

32:54

passing grief he passes as job at. The Wow

32:56

A passes as a jar. It's like that's

32:58

where it gets. You are aware. That so

33:00

if a job or well that but

33:02

try had a settlement. That

33:06

last of us because it is comedians

33:08

ice of the odds I was on

33:10

his side. So when richard fast tell

33:12

be based hundred sites. this

33:14

was my react said oh.

33:22

Oh wow, What? A What? What

33:24

Did you. Even mind if you

33:26

don't mind if. I. Didn't

33:29

mind it. I mean me, I'm a

33:31

cheap laugh. It's troublesome even though it's

33:33

about death. Is

33:36

like a wholesome murder job. you know? I

33:38

love I've reed said ah what what

33:40

he thought about it what it is

33:43

the law did you feel when your

33:45

colleagues times. You oh my like this is

33:47

that when out when you read that what

33:49

went through your mind that ahora because. I

33:52

knew I would have to go on radio

33:54

and television and sell. that joke is the

33:56

world's funniest joke. and

33:58

i knew it wasn't Funny.

34:02

And it was just, we must have done 50 interviews

34:05

that, that, yeah, when that, that came

34:07

out. And each time you sort

34:09

of grind, it's a long joke as well.

34:11

It's not a short joke. You grind through

34:13

this joke, knowing it's not funny. Having just

34:16

told everyone that you found the world's funniest

34:18

joke, it was living hell. After

34:21

a while, I just refused to tell it. But

34:24

what's funny is that like, even

34:26

though it didn't make me laugh and Richard

34:29

doesn't really like it, like when you look

34:31

at the scientific theories of humor, this hunty

34:33

joke actually ticks a lot

34:35

of long things. Okay,

34:37

so let's take a look at these scientific

34:40

theories of humor. Okay, great. One of the

34:42

biggest theories of humor is that you need

34:44

a surprise. So perhaps something

34:46

incongruous. So here's comedian Lonnie

34:48

Loverness. It's something that you

34:50

didn't expect. That's what makes

34:53

you laugh because your mind is

34:55

thinking one way and you

34:57

go a whole other corner or

34:59

avenue. That is what makes people

35:02

laugh. And that's the science of

35:04

the joke. So

35:07

Richard gave me an example of this,

35:09

which I actually quite like as a joke. Okay.

35:11

Two fish and a tank. One turns to the other and

35:14

says, do you know how to drive this? Love

35:17

it. Love it. So we

35:19

have fish and a tank. We think it's

35:21

a fish tank. And then we find out

35:23

they're in the army tank. That's in Congress.

35:25

It surprises us. We laugh. So

35:27

one paper called this conceptual bifurcation,

35:30

which is that moment where you

35:32

realize that something that you thought

35:34

belonged to just one category, a

35:36

tank is something that only a fish would

35:39

hang out in, actually belongs to two categories,

35:41

an army tank too. And

35:44

so the hunter joke obviously has this as

35:46

well. The moment you realize first,

35:48

let's make certain he's dead, actually has

35:50

two meanings. And then it's a funny

35:53

surprise. Right. That is a funny joke.

35:55

Yeah. Also, conceptual bifurcation. I feel like both

35:57

of those words would rank very low on

35:59

you. your spreadsheet. That's

36:02

like a very unfunny phrase you could

36:04

find to describe a joke. Yeah,

36:12

it's like barely above harassment.

36:14

Right. Yeah, yeah, completely. Studies

36:17

have actually put people into brain

36:19

scatters and presented them with jokes

36:21

and found that certain areas associated

36:23

with language get really, really

36:26

excited when we hear these

36:28

kinds of jokes, which makes a lot of

36:30

sense because there's a lot of brain work

36:32

involved in putting these two concepts together for

36:34

that beautiful aha moment. Right, right.

36:37

Adam Conover of most famously Adam Ruins

36:39

Everything, he's going to stand up. And

36:42

he says that the surprise can come in different

36:44

forms. So it doesn't have to be that you

36:46

were expecting a joke to go in one direction

36:49

and then it goes somewhere else. It could be

36:51

that someone explains something in a way

36:53

that you never thought of before. My own

36:55

personal theory that I use to write

36:57

jokes is that something is

37:00

funny when a truth is combined

37:02

with a surprise when

37:04

people have a shock of recognition that they

37:07

did not expect. So, you know, a very

37:09

classic joke is, you know, a piece of

37:11

observational comedy. You know, have you ever noticed

37:14

that airplane food is X, whatever it is,

37:16

right? And if you have in fact noticed

37:18

that, but no one has ever said that

37:20

to you before, then you will likely laugh.

37:23

Right. But

37:25

surprise can't explain everything about comedy because things can

37:27

be surprising and not funny at all.

37:30

And on the flip side, researchers found that even when

37:32

there is no surprise, like in some studies,

37:35

people have been told a joke before, or

37:37

even if they're asked, like, can you predict

37:39

the punchline of this

37:41

joke, people still find it funny

37:43

and sometimes even funnier. And I told Tig

37:45

Notaro the Hunter joke, it was kind of

37:47

funny because this was her reaction. So

37:52

it come and still sounded amusing. Oh, yeah.

37:55

So if there's more to a zinger than surprise, what else

37:57

have you done? The

38:00

Box. Superiority Theory Say

38:02

here kids, Richard on that a

38:04

loss is a kind a cry

38:07

of superiority. You meet somebody else,

38:09

look silly, or put them down,

38:11

and that you're going. Yes, I'm

38:13

better than them. Up.

38:16

So depressing. Actually, that's like

38:18

a very depressing, very depressing

38:20

pump and a does explain

38:22

sometimes because like him, In.

38:25

So many cultures there are these

38:27

jokes about am what's on his

38:29

us as cold altered the fool

38:31

town so or food writers like

38:33

so in Australia as he sat

38:35

a dog. Would like to parsimony

38:37

and walk into a bar.and and

38:39

Canada, It's New Finland or yeah,

38:41

Ride So it is how I did. I

38:43

make fun of the Irish in Ireland, maybe

38:46

the made fun of the cari men in

38:48

France, the Belgians. I'm right and it gonna

38:50

be on time So I was reading about

38:52

his positive that in also groups that was

38:54

up there I said town of Ab there

38:56

are you know. That, of course

38:58

you invariably gerrard warrior avast.

39:01

Earth. And and raised when it comes to

39:03

the have to join you could argue we feel

39:05

superior to the stupid. Hunter, it's is

39:07

doesn't feel so petty like we're

39:09

just so petty and insecure like

39:12

we need something to feel that

39:14

are then. I

39:17

really. Don't think that's why I'm laughing and

39:19

allotted sides. and it has been criticised a little

39:22

bit. Recently. I mean, I'm not saying

39:24

I'm not petty and is a smurf. But

39:28

I like to think more. Who is

39:31

now? Lol Scientific theory

39:33

pm I want to walk through just

39:35

quickly is that I'm is that a

39:37

lot of humans who did buy these

39:39

potentially threatening or bad. Situations and then

39:41

laugh to release sense and so

39:43

on. The giants tix that off

39:45

sides like oh there's a little

39:47

bubble of tend to hear puppet

39:49

like okay great, very good, very

39:52

good right? Yes, It is

39:54

not a lot of studies testing. The Syrian

39:56

team Us Vs said that just from reading

39:58

let thousands have died. Experiment it seems

40:00

sort of be as a hot of why.

40:02

A lot of them are funny. It's

40:05

not jobs that most jokes evolve. people

40:07

are experiencing stuff that makes is worried.

40:10

The. Outcry. And then as as. As

40:12

an interesting tidbit, more recently, recesses of

40:14

kind of added to the same concept

40:17

of and sense of what they call

40:19

a violation They said you ultimately need

40:21

to feel says said a violation. In

40:23

a job has to be benign. Could have

40:26

a nine bottle sit there and if you

40:28

think of like a classic funniest home videos

40:30

so where someone falls on a whole nother

40:32

the violation it's a bit dangerous but then

40:34

it's safe like the past and got off

40:36

was fine and bike for some reason sent

40:38

their snafu to like a nineties tv channel

40:40

right city say if a good get off

40:42

know decide. To. Move. Dead?

40:45

Yeah right, that's not funny when our

40:47

while laughing at that anymore. One

40:50

hundred jokes just for as as at right? even. Though

40:52

it kicks his I did it but boxes like

40:54

we talked about. it's not funny and so I

40:56

saw no to me an odd i don't know,

40:59

it's just a funny. As per the funny that

41:01

is not a fun yes Elsa Fire and and.

41:03

And philosophy said like. His

41:05

experiments a deal with it the right thing.

41:08

they got a sample size as people you

41:10

know many countries around the world like so

41:12

what went wrong and see is. What

41:14

he says. It. Was the joke the most

41:16

people didn't have a fixed it so you

41:19

could look etti one group you can look

41:21

up men and women or younger or older

41:23

Canadians as it is always a job that

41:25

I thought was much much funnier. When

41:27

you pulled the date that you got the average.

41:30

And as the average is the average shows he's

41:32

the kind of like is well. I think I

41:34

think what I've let from to a friend a

41:36

token. Enough is enough not to say. Is

41:40

that that where you went wrong with

41:42

asking? Thousands and thousands of

41:44

people. For their when we were wrong

41:46

with starting. Left. Valve. Valve

41:50

Ill for verse. Access.

41:53

So rich it has completely lost.

41:56

Hybrid, our quest in finding the a surge

41:58

in the world. Yeah, I feel. There

42:00

was three of us and now there's just two

42:02

of us. He just turned and left. But I

42:04

say there is hope. I say there is hope.

42:07

I think it was getting this

42:10

median democratic voting system going. I think

42:12

that's where he went wrong. And so I think if we

42:15

instead of going to

42:17

the voting polls, we go granular.

42:19

We use the techniques that we've learned

42:21

today, the funny words, the sounds, the different

42:24

theories of humor. So I have

42:26

scoured joke book, and

42:28

listicles, and social media. And I've

42:30

gone to comedy sets, hours of comedy,

42:32

and hunting for jokes that might fit

42:34

the bill. You've done a lot of research

42:37

here, Wendy. I'm very impressed. Yeah,

42:39

so two jokes in

42:41

my search. I thought, who took

42:44

a lot of these boxes? And I

42:46

did actually find funny. Okay. Okay,

42:49

so like, could this be the

42:51

winner to our competition? Could

42:54

this be the funniest joke in the world?

42:56

Okay. All right. How

43:01

do you stop a dog from humping your leg? I

43:05

don't know how. Pick him up and

43:07

suck his cock. That

43:10

was good, because it was, that

43:14

was not where I expected you were going to

43:16

go. But it was funny. It's got

43:18

the K, the suck and cock, the rude word. Cuck,

43:23

cock, yeah, that's right. Inconbruity, surprise, bit

43:25

of tension. It did pretty

43:28

good with the comics. It beat out

43:30

the hunter joke, that's for sure. Really?

43:34

Pick him up and suck his cock. I

43:37

say, I'm so sorry. No, that's funny. See,

43:39

that's funny to me. And I feel bad

43:41

now. I think it's more relatable. Go

43:50

on. I

43:53

think dog's humping is a problem. I

43:57

think it's just impolite.

44:00

People people are desperate for a solution I think they

44:02

are desperate for a solution and so you do you

44:04

rack your brains as soon as someone says How do

44:06

you stop a dog from humping your leg? Mmm, and

44:09

then I go to pick it up pick him up

44:11

and suck his cock That's

44:13

crazy. You know when

44:15

it cut when that image lands. It's

44:18

like whoa Brilliant

44:21

yeah, that's very funny It's

44:30

disgusting. It's a dog

44:33

leave it alone But

44:37

it's so funny because I

44:39

think it has something to do with you saying it because

44:41

I know you would never Thank

44:45

you I

44:47

love that's the vibe I give that I want to suck

44:49

off a dog Do

44:52

you think would it translate around the

44:54

world would it translate in India? Oh my

44:57

god, they would love it Oh

44:59

my god, would they love this joke in

45:01

the right hands? This joke would be

45:03

why this that's a billion people right

45:05

there, right? So yeah,

45:08

maybe science is getting us close Mm-hmm.

45:11

Mm-hmm, but I thought like

45:13

you didn't love it. You didn't love

45:15

I'm but I'm like a I'm a polite

45:20

Canadian I grew up

45:22

in a quite religious household sex jokes

45:24

are very like Like

45:26

I'm like, okay. Yeah, like that's funny But

45:29

let's check it down and I think I

45:31

can't I don't think the funny is just also, you

45:33

know That's good listening probably not any more. But

45:36

I'm so we're kids listen Right.

45:39

Um, all right. So we've got another good for you.

45:41

Okay, I would I've been a little for our purposes.

45:43

I think you'll see Okay

45:48

in this neighborhood in Mumbai

45:50

called Chinchpokli Two

45:52

monkeys were having a bath one

45:54

monkey says And

45:57

the other says we'll put the cold tap

45:59

on men That

46:03

one

46:06

was not funny. I don't know why. Because

46:10

it had Shinshokalina and everything. Monkeys?

46:12

Monkeys have a K. That's

46:14

funny. Monkeys? Ooh, there was

46:16

a conceptual bifurcation. There

46:20

was a conceptual bifurcation. Yeah, I

46:22

don't know why. It didn't land. Interesting.

46:25

Okay, so this is what the comics thought

46:27

of the monkey joke. And

46:30

the other says, we'll put the cold tap on then. That's

46:37

good. That's good. I

46:41

think it's better than the hunter joke. Yeah.

46:43

That's wholesome. I like this one. I

46:47

didn't really like this one. It's

46:49

not better. Yeah, I like it

46:51

better. It's so funny. Yeah.

46:59

I'm sorry. That one. Yeah, that's good

47:01

for me. It's here at

47:03

the final stage of our quest.

47:06

Right. So that was your touchdown dance. I

47:13

feel like we're weary,

47:15

outclothes the torn, torn

47:18

through the soles. And

47:20

it's here where we've lost

47:22

all hope, perhaps, that our journey takes a different

47:24

path. Here

47:27

in Chinchpokalu, we're going to

47:29

cognitively bifurcate. The

47:32

sun is rising, and

47:34

we squint at the bright light as

47:37

Uruj appears. So Uruj

47:40

used to study psychology before her comedy

47:42

career took off. And when

47:44

she first started doing stand-up, she actually read

47:46

about all these theories of humor. The

47:49

incongruity, surprise, misdirection. You

47:51

like looked into the psychology of it. You tried to

47:53

study this like a science? Exactly. And then at some

47:56

point I was like, none of it is real. It's

47:58

the comedy gods. It's

48:00

the comedy gods. I'm sorry,

48:02

I know I'm on a science podcast, but I strongly

48:04

believe in the comedy gods. I was

48:07

an atheist and a scientist, and

48:09

I'm a believer now. Because

48:12

I just went on so many stages.

48:15

It's all across India. I performed in

48:17

cafes. I performed in bars. I performed

48:20

for corporate shows. I did birthday

48:22

parties. I did baby showers. I did comedy

48:24

clubs. And I was like, that is a

48:26

force. That is a superior

48:28

force. And there is a moment

48:30

and magic happens. And

48:33

I'm so sorry

48:36

to defy this

48:39

entire podcast's purpose.

48:43

And so Lutcheff,

48:45

I abandoned science too. I

48:50

went to the comedy gods. And I

48:52

asked them, what can I do? I've got this

48:54

episode called The Funniest Joke in the World. What can I do? And

48:58

they told me to

49:00

fulfill our quest. If

49:04

we can each find our own

49:07

favorite joke, to put a

49:09

smile on our faces when we're feeling down. A

49:11

joke so that we don't ever have to use

49:13

Google and find some crappy jokes

49:16

about pianos and keys. And maybe the

49:18

audience listening, maybe we've already found yours.

49:21

Maybe it's the dog humping joke or

49:23

the monkey or the fish in the tank. So

49:26

Lutcheff, have I found yours? I

49:28

don't know. I got a couple more for you.

49:30

Great. Keep going. Just a couple more. Okay, great.

49:32

Professor Richard Wiseman. What was his favorite joke? Yes.

49:36

Yes. Yes. Okay. This was it.

49:38

Yeah. Sprint to hear that. The elephant

49:40

and the mouse. And the elephant says

49:42

to the mouse, why am I so

49:44

big and strong and you're so weak and puny?

49:46

And the mouse looks up and says, well, I've

49:48

been ill, haven't I? I

49:53

like it. I Always

49:55

like that. It

50:00

makes me makes me smile. Says

50:05

Games. Is finally is finally near

50:07

the cassie work as easy. As

50:10

it was one of the most critical that

50:12

we could find the funniest second, the wild

50:14

towards the end of outside gave me this

50:17

damn and what what know them think of

50:19

That was even really puzzling. I bought

50:21

something that could make every laugh

50:23

or he fought. Could

50:25

have you find out the you know

50:28

Because yes I'm. And what kind of thought like a

50:30

big like. And any false or like and.

50:34

Either one. Day

50:38

Every day that. I was. Watching.

50:42

Me by myself. The

50:44

lid on the couch b lox and

50:46

then I thought i did fought for

50:48

those the by default I mean I'm

50:50

he would he fought er well and

50:52

are utter I see myself and they're

50:54

like it's very tough friends not easy

50:57

and as i said off to throw

50:59

in my underwear six hello I see

51:01

myself and onto the bathroom for to

51:03

take all my clothes and and i

51:05

saw my underwear was. Fleeing

51:08

saw i see myself obe it

51:10

was my under was clean and.this

51:12

is awesome fights i me my

51:15

rise i discover like why our

51:17

human. But. Yes, it's

51:20

safe right? These like S

51:22

W and on forget that

51:24

a simple survey some kind

51:26

of exist. I thought I

51:28

called for. The

51:32

most this will save you and

51:34

you are nowhere from sitting ourselves.

51:36

So next time you see yourself,

51:38

please don't give us because there's

51:41

always fall for this. Added

51:44

very. Heartwarming.

51:53

Are as I gladly with all of

51:56

the jokes that you've had to. They.

51:59

Have we found your. Ah, I'm.

52:02

I'm very happy with. Take.

52:06

Your face. Ah,

52:09

I still think. That

52:12

was really good. I'm going to take

52:14

out the garbage. Take your

52:16

face the answer. Was hiding

52:18

within us. All. Along

52:20

yes it was as you do with the

52:23

sale that cause. For what about you?

52:25

What's your what's your funniest jokes? That.

52:28

The s about Hope That I mean something

52:30

that hope is that was great as athletes

52:32

and a lot as as to put a

52:34

smile on my face that are not about

52:36

a piano. Yeah like if someone were to

52:38

say. Hundred. Good Yeah.

52:41

I'd be like. There's. This

52:44

area senior senior but.

52:50

It's. Senior Us Off

52:52

or reject Forecast is is a K

52:54

and as sensitive as successes and it's

52:56

called Hope and it's have a home

52:58

here and thank you very much face

53:00

you Comment on this I say you

53:02

I feel lighter, I feel I just

53:04

feel I feel great And Eight and

53:06

now the I mean the kind of

53:08

news you can use of this is

53:11

like I know what to do next.

53:13

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53:29

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53:38

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54:13

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