World's funniest joke
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The "world's funniest joke" is a term used by Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire in 2002 to summarize one of the results of his research. For his experiment, named LaughLab, he created a website where people could rate and submit jokes.[1] Purposes of the research included discovering the joke that had the widest appeal and understanding among different cultures, demographics and countries.Template:Fact
The History Channel eventually hosted a special on the subject.[2]
Winning joke
The winning joke, which was later found to be based on a 1951 Goon Show sketch by Spike Milligan,[3] was submitted by Gurpal Gosal of Manchester:
Other findings
Researchers also included five computer-generated jokes, four of which fared rather poorly, but one was rated higher than one third of the human jokes:[4]
The joke that was submitted to LaughLab the most times was:[5]
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What's brown and sticky? A stick.
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During a Science Vs podcast episode,[6][7] Richard Wiseman said this about whether it's actually the world's funniest joke:
References
Further reading
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External links
- ↑ LaughLab official site
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- ↑ BBC: Spike 'wrote world's best joke'
- ↑ "Computer crack funnier than many human jokes", December 20, 2001, New Scientist
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