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Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why (New York Post).

Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball experiments of Professor Peter McGraw and writer Joel Warner as they discover the secret behind what makes things funny. In their search, they interview countless comics, from Doug Stanhope to Louis CK and travel across the globe from Norway to New York, from Palestine to the Amazon. Its an epic quest, both brainy and harebrained, that culminates at the worlds largest comedy festival where the pair put their hard-earned knowledge to the test.

For the first time, they have established a comprehensive theory that answers the question what makes things funny? Based on original research from the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the pairs experie

The Humor Code

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      Publisher Simon & Schuster
      Published 28 April 2015
      ISBN-13 9781451665420
      978-1451665420
      ISBN-10 1451665423
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      Humour Society and culture: general

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why (New York Post).

      Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball experiments of Professor Peter McGraw and writer Joel Warner as they discover the secret behind what makes things funny. In their search, they interview countless comics, from Doug Stanhope to Louis CK and travel across the globe from Norway to New York, from Palestine to the Amazon. Its an epic quest, both brainy and harebrained, that culminates at the worlds largest comedy festival where the pair put their hard-earned knowledge to the test.

      For the first time, they have established a comprehensive theory that answers the question what makes things funny? Based on original research from the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the pairs experie

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