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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:doesn't it vary from person to person by quintessent · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes. And if you read the site, that's what it's all about. They want to see which jokes affect the most people. In addition, they will divide people by age, gender, etc. to see which types of jokes the groups tend to like. The "funniest joke in the nation [not world, as Slashdot would have you believe]" stuff is just sort of a gimmick they're tacking on to get people's attention.

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  2. An average joke? Blah! by minghe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the result is to find the joke that makes most pepole laugh, it wont be very funny. It will be unoffening, politically correct, culturally tansparent and aimed at all ages and both sexes.

    In other words, a mildly amusing, but pretty lame joke.

    Something like Cosby.

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