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10 things you may not know about laughter

By Prof Sophie Scott

University College London

26 October 2014

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Friends are more likely to provoke laughter than jokes

Neuroscientist and part time stand-up comic Prof Sophie Scott reveals 10 things you probably didn't know about laughter.

Laughter really is funny.

The first time I did stand-up comedy my only coherent thought afterwards was that I wanted to do it again immediately, and do it better.

Why is laughter so much fun?

As a psychologist, this is especially puzzling as pretty much everything we think about laughter is wrong.

So here are 10 things you, probably, didn't know about laughter.

This is critical to our enjoying a happy mood - but maybe even more important when circumstances are making us feel bad.

Just before my father's funeral service started, I can remember saying something solely to try and make my mother laugh, to get us on track before everything kicked off. And it worked.

Laughter may help us measure the health of not just people, but the relationships between people - a way of looking at our social interactions and the effects they have on us.

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8. Laughter requires precise timing

In conversations, people time their laughter to occur very precisely at the ends of sentences. Even people speaking in sign language do this - despite the fact that they could laugh throughout their "silent" conversation if they wished to.

I'm intrigued by how comedians co-ordinate the responses to their routines from the stage.

It's also difficult to learn to have the confidence to leave a pause for the audience to laugh, and to cope if they don't.

Comedians are very sensitive to the way that laughter can grow and fade in a room, and leaving a space for laughter to happen at all is a real skill.

Kiri Pritchard-Mclean, a stand-up comedian who also teaches comedy, points out: "It takes a lot of confidence to stand on a stage and do nothing while the audience laugh - and it is hard to learn to come back in at the right point - not to trample on the laughter or wait too long and lose the momentum of the room."

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Sophie Scott performing stand up comedy

9. Laughter is attractive

Can you really laugh someone into bed? One study of personal ads found that both men and women specified a sense of humour more frequently than intelligence, education, profession or sexual drive.

Another found that we rate strangers as more attractive if they laugh at our jokes.

10. Some things are almost guaranteed to make you laugh

No comedian has found THE joke that's universally and timelessly amusing.

But when trying to make people laugh in my lab I've found some things work better than others.

One of the best tools are clips of people trying to not to laugh in situations where laughter is highly inappropriate.

The classic example is Charlotte Green attempting to read the news live on BBC Radio 4 whilst desperately trying to suppress fits of giggles.

Listen to the clip and try not to laugh yourself.