He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps: "My friend is dead! What can I do? First, let's make sure he's dead.
Back on the phone, the guy says: "OK, now what? Dr Wiseman said the joke was interesting because it worked across many different countries and appealed to men and women and young and old alike. He said: "Many of the jokes submitted received higher ratings from certain groups of people, but this one had real universal appeal.
They sometimes make us feel superior to others, reduce the emotional impact of anxiety-provoking situations or surprise us because of some kind of incongruity.
The hunters joke contained all three elements. People logging onto the LaughLab website were invited to rate jokes using a "Giggleometer" which had a five-point scale ranging from "not very funny" to "very funny". One intriguing result was that Germans - not renowned for their sense of humour - found just about everything funny.
They did not express a strong preference for any type of joke. One example was as follows. Patient: "Doctor, I've got a strawberry stuck up my bum. Armed with a couch, TV, Netflix subscription, extra-large bag of popcorn, and a worrying amount time on my hands, I recently decided to take a deep look into the structure of various television comedies.
My objective was to take a handful of primetime TV comedies and compare them in terms of jokes per minute —the total number of jokes divided by the number of minutes in the show. Striking the ideal balance, of course, is essential to all comedies, but it seemed that different shows, from 30 Rock to South Park , and Frasier to New Girl , appeared to have very distinct pacing that had less to do with how funny a show was, and more to do with factors such as the subgenre of comedy, the types of jokes, and the popularity of the show.
I took a dozen U. In order of highest to lowest average jokes per minute, here are the results:. The traditional multi-camera sitcom, based around a group of family or friends—in this sample, Friends and The Big Bang Theory —sits right in the middle in terms of the joke count. You could call these shows the Baby Bear of comedy: The pacing is not too fast and not too slow. But TV comedy of late has evolved to a more film-evocative, single-camera system, without a laughing track, and the shows in this category produced a very high joke count, from the zany 30 Rock in first place to the budding Brooklyn Nine-Nine in fifth.
Modern Family is a single-camera show and so is arguably an anomaly here, but it also sits comfortably with the family sitcom, even if not in the traditional sense. They're relentless. Although it does involve a lot of Angry Birds. Bad example. They always give you that look like, 'Oh, I didn't know I was better than you. Because it's going straight to your ass. I think your ass owes your tooth an explanation.
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