Joking apart, the studies provide only the flimsiest support for a genetic theory of national humour: as with plenty of headline-grabbing science reports, the data falls rather short of the headlines. The real news is that the investigation of humour is belatedly becoming a science.
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Dimitris Agorastos
I laughed so hard at these! The second one had me wiping tears from my eyes & it was downhill from there ;)