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Even if it doesn't, that's not going to stop British science from trying to find out! As reported by Reuters:
A British scientist has launched a quest for the world's funniest joke.
Richard Wiseman, a psychologist from Hertfordshire University, said on Wednesday that the year-long, Internet-based search should throw light on whether men and women, the young and old, and specific nationalities find different jokes funny.
"It is an attempt to delve into the psychology of humour," he told a science conference in Glasgow in Scotland.
"Are there certain types of joke being submitted by a certain country and are there some which are found funny across the world -- a kind of universal joke?"
People can log on to the experiment's Website at www.laughlab.co.uk to submit jokes and enter a few personal details before giving their verdict on a sample of other jokes.
All submissions must be in English.
After six months, jokes deemed to be the funniest will be recorded by a professional comedian with a variety of punchline timings to arrive at what -- theoretically -- should be the killer comic formula.
The site's database is already stocked with a variety of starter jokes: What kind of murderer has fibre? A serial killer; What sort of pig should you avoid at a party? A wild boar.
But Wiseman hopes these will be overtaken by a flood of 1,000 or more wisecracks in the first 24 hours of the experiment.
Smutty and offensive jokes, however funny, will not make it to the final reckoning.
"A student will come in every morning and edit out the rude ones," Wiseman said. "But it will also be interesting to see what sort of people submit those sort of jokes."
Volunteers will listen to the final jokes while undergoing a scan, to see how their brains react.
The results should help studies into brain damage and thought processes since "getting" a joke requires a number of complex cognitive processes, Wiseman told a conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
For instance, people with damage to the right-hand frontal cortex find it difficult to understand many jokes or often laugh at the wrong punchline.
A British scientist has launched a quest for the world's funniest joke.
Richard Wiseman, a psychologist from Hertfordshire University, said on Wednesday that the year-long, Internet-based search should throw light on whether men and women, the young and old, and specific nationalities find different jokes funny.
"It is an attempt to delve into the psychology of humour," he told a science conference in Glasgow in Scotland.
"Are there certain types of joke being submitted by a certain country and are there some which are found funny across the world -- a kind of universal joke?"
People can log on to the experiment's Website at www.laughlab.co.uk to submit jokes and enter a few personal details before giving their verdict on a sample of other jokes.
All submissions must be in English.
After six months, jokes deemed to be the funniest will be recorded by a professional comedian with a variety of punchline timings to arrive at what -- theoretically -- should be the killer comic formula.
The site's database is already stocked with a variety of starter jokes: What kind of murderer has fibre? A serial killer; What sort of pig should you avoid at a party? A wild boar.
But Wiseman hopes these will be overtaken by a flood of 1,000 or more wisecracks in the first 24 hours of the experiment.
Smutty and offensive jokes, however funny, will not make it to the final reckoning.
"A student will come in every morning and edit out the rude ones," Wiseman said. "But it will also be interesting to see what sort of people submit those sort of jokes."
Volunteers will listen to the final jokes while undergoing a scan, to see how their brains react.
The results should help studies into brain damage and thought processes since "getting" a joke requires a number of complex cognitive processes, Wiseman told a conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
For instance, people with damage to the right-hand frontal cortex find it difficult to understand many jokes or often laugh at the wrong punchline.
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Your Honour wrote:
> Let me know if you get it or not.
Got it!
"That's a cracker!"
> Let me know if you get it or not.
Got it!
"That's a cracker!"
This guy isn't very hi-tech is he? Getting a student to edit out the smut! Hehe.... He's obviously not heard of text filters.
And getting a professional comedian to deliver the jokes. Now *that* is funny....
'Sorry, could you say that one again, I hadn't calibrated the laughometer correctly?'
I bet this scientist is like Professor Frink on the Simpsons.
And getting a professional comedian to deliver the jokes. Now *that* is funny....
'Sorry, could you say that one again, I hadn't calibrated the laughometer correctly?'
I bet this scientist is like Professor Frink on the Simpsons.
I've sent it to what I *hope* is the right address...
Let me know if you get it or not.
Let me know if you get it or not.
Mail me with it YH...
I've got a joke, but I won't say it, as it could be construed as being racist.
It's still DAMN funny though.....
It's still DAMN funny though.....
Jokes aren't funny
Only the way the day unfolds with certain incidenst id comedy or something.
Only the way the day unfolds with certain incidenst id comedy or something.
World's funniest joke?
Gotta be Your Honour!
Or is that the cruelest joke?
;-)
Gotta be Your Honour!
Or is that the cruelest joke?
;-)
Even if it doesn't, that's not going to stop British science from trying to find out! As reported by Reuters:
A British scientist has launched a quest for the world's funniest joke.
Richard Wiseman, a psychologist from Hertfordshire University, said on Wednesday that the year-long, Internet-based search should throw light on whether men and women, the young and old, and specific nationalities find different jokes funny.
"It is an attempt to delve into the psychology of humour," he told a science conference in Glasgow in Scotland.
"Are there certain types of joke being submitted by a certain country and are there some which are found funny across the world -- a kind of universal joke?"
People can log on to the experiment's Website at www.laughlab.co.uk to submit jokes and enter a few personal details before giving their verdict on a sample of other jokes.
All submissions must be in English.
After six months, jokes deemed to be the funniest will be recorded by a professional comedian with a variety of punchline timings to arrive at what -- theoretically -- should be the killer comic formula.
The site's database is already stocked with a variety of starter jokes: What kind of murderer has fibre? A serial killer; What sort of pig should you avoid at a party? A wild boar.
But Wiseman hopes these will be overtaken by a flood of 1,000 or more wisecracks in the first 24 hours of the experiment.
Smutty and offensive jokes, however funny, will not make it to the final reckoning.
"A student will come in every morning and edit out the rude ones," Wiseman said. "But it will also be interesting to see what sort of people submit those sort of jokes."
Volunteers will listen to the final jokes while undergoing a scan, to see how their brains react.
The results should help studies into brain damage and thought processes since "getting" a joke requires a number of complex cognitive processes, Wiseman told a conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
For instance, people with damage to the right-hand frontal cortex find it difficult to understand many jokes or often laugh at the wrong punchline.
A British scientist has launched a quest for the world's funniest joke.
Richard Wiseman, a psychologist from Hertfordshire University, said on Wednesday that the year-long, Internet-based search should throw light on whether men and women, the young and old, and specific nationalities find different jokes funny.
"It is an attempt to delve into the psychology of humour," he told a science conference in Glasgow in Scotland.
"Are there certain types of joke being submitted by a certain country and are there some which are found funny across the world -- a kind of universal joke?"
People can log on to the experiment's Website at www.laughlab.co.uk to submit jokes and enter a few personal details before giving their verdict on a sample of other jokes.
All submissions must be in English.
After six months, jokes deemed to be the funniest will be recorded by a professional comedian with a variety of punchline timings to arrive at what -- theoretically -- should be the killer comic formula.
The site's database is already stocked with a variety of starter jokes: What kind of murderer has fibre? A serial killer; What sort of pig should you avoid at a party? A wild boar.
But Wiseman hopes these will be overtaken by a flood of 1,000 or more wisecracks in the first 24 hours of the experiment.
Smutty and offensive jokes, however funny, will not make it to the final reckoning.
"A student will come in every morning and edit out the rude ones," Wiseman said. "But it will also be interesting to see what sort of people submit those sort of jokes."
Volunteers will listen to the final jokes while undergoing a scan, to see how their brains react.
The results should help studies into brain damage and thought processes since "getting" a joke requires a number of complex cognitive processes, Wiseman told a conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
For instance, people with damage to the right-hand frontal cortex find it difficult to understand many jokes or often laugh at the wrong punchline.
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