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The Funniest Joke in the World
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."
Jay Leno (a comedian in the U.S.) makes $40,000 for perhaps 90 minutes of comedy. And Jay Leno is not very funny.
Obviously, if those studying the "science" of comedy knew anything about it, they would be out doing it, and not hanging around in a musty university drawing professor pay.
Bush's education improvements were
You're absolutely right. I saw this interesting story in Canada's National Post newspaper recently. American humour is very different from that of cultures including the British. American comedies work on British TV as it's often simple humour, but the best British comedies rarely work in the other direction as they're just not understood and only found funny by a small minority. Consider Mr. Bean, quite popular in the US, it's actually considered unsophisticated and unlearned across the pond. As the article I linked to mentions, "American jokes reflect a pompous and boastful sensibility, the British and French prefer self-mockery". American humour tends to be much more superficial, which is probably why I can't find much good satire, and why the best satire on American TV (The Simpsons) has been reduced to cartoon form.