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The Funniest Joke in the World

Posted by michael on from the inscrutable-british-humor dept.

Tackhead writes: "In another example of life imitating Monty Python, this article on nature.com says that the British Association for the Advancement of Science has created Laugh Lab, a project designed to find the funniest joke in the world. Weaponization possibilities are not discussed. Yet."

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  1. Re:Monty Python already did this. by PsyQ · · Score: 2, Informative

    Their "German" was fake and it made no sense at all, but if you speak both German and English it's twice as funny anyway :)

    In one of their skits ("couple in a Bavarian restaurant") they speak genuine German, and I was very surprised because John Cleese had nearly perfect pronounciation of every single word, it's only the melody that's a little odd. I always thought the Brits couldn't do that..

  2. Re:Monty Python already did this. by meadowsp · · Score: 2, Informative

    They did some episodes in German, for the Germans, don't know how it translated, but here's some info.

    Here

  3. Re:Monty Python already did this. by odaiwai · · Score: 3, Informative

    *ahem*

    Wenn ist das Nunstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die
    Flipperwaldt gersput!

    dave "and now for comething completely different"

  4. The End of Humor by Nishi-no-wan · · Score: 2, Informative

    It seems to me that Asimov wrote something along these lines. After researching and discovering the purpose of humor, there no longer was any. It was just an experiment.