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  • Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And today we're going to talk about

  • humor, comedy. What makes something

  • funny and when something's funny, why do we laugh?

  • What's the purpose of laughing and why do we laugh when we're tickled?

  • Well, people study this. They're called gelotologists

  • and we don't have all the answers yet, but what we do know is that you are

  • thirty times more likely to laugh

  • if there are other people around.

  • We also know that babies laugh before they learn a language

  • and that babies born blind and deaf will laugh.

  • There are thousands of languages, hundreds of thousands of dialects, but yet we

  • all

  • laugh in much the same way. Our brains are constantly looking for

  • patterns - ways of understanding the world and predicting what's next. It's to our

  • evolutionary advantage. And so when something begins in a way that we expect

  • and then all of a sudden changes and surprises or delights us,

  • we often react with laughter, because we have just

  • learned something. We've learned a new

  • logical order. This theory posits that things are

  • funny because there's an incongruity between what we expected

  • and what happened. Whether it's a dog

  • dressed like a human or a clever use of word play.

  • In other words, comedy is about learning.

  • But once you've learned the new logical order of the joke,

  • well it ceases to be funny, which is why jokes are funny the first time,

  • but not every other time after that. Take a look at this

  • percentage sign. Alright, so you know what a percent sign is.

  • But besides the percent, there's also a permil

  • and permyriad symbol. But that's not

  • funny, because even though it might be new information to you, it still falls

  • right in line with the logic of the percent symbol. But what Demetri Martin shows

  • us

  • with just one more line, you can make it look like a man cheering

  • after taking a dump... well, that surprises us.

  • But we don't only laugh when something's funny.

  • What about tickling? How does that make any sense? Most of us don't like being

  • tickled, but when tickled we can't help but smile

  • and laugh. Well, a possible explanation is that tickling

  • helps teach children at a young age proper defensive

  • behaviors. Is it a coincidence that the most ticklish areas are also

  • the most vulnerable and the ones that we instinctively cover

  • when startled. Also, because being tickled makes the person laugh,

  • it may encourage others to tickle them, teaching them

  • these defensive skills. Tickling may even play a role

  • before you are born. In order to avoid being tickled, a baby

  • gets into a better position to be delivered.

  • Now, physically, laughing involves the

  • epiglottis - a little flap thing that protects the trachea

  • whenever we swallow, so that food and water doesn't go down into our lungs.

  • I know it doesn't look very funny,

  • but this is where the laugh happens. The epiglottis constricts the larynx

  • and we get the LOL. Interestingly,

  • the epiglottis actually has taste buds on it, which means that,

  • anatomically speaking, comedy truly is

  • a matter of taste.

  • Get out of my house!

  • And as always,

  • thanks for watching.

Hey, Vsauce. Michael here. And today we're going to talk about

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我們為什麼怕癢?為什麼我們會笑? (Why Are We Ticklish? Why do We Laugh?)

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