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Scientists Discovered What Makes Something Funny

Sam RegaDec 31, 2014, 21:39 IST

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It's really hard to be funny. It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades.

He says there are a lot of scientific theories about what makes something humorous - he cites 3 main categories of what works and why.

Produced by Sam Rega

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