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To make a flat joke funnier, cue the laugh track

Canned laughter helps people see the humour in bad jokes.
The Price is Right audience at Central Studios, Nottingham, UK, 1989

Many television shows and films include laugh tracks, which could help to make pitiful jokes seem riotously funny. Credit: Telepix/Alamy

What do you call a sleeping dinosaur? A dino‐SNORE.

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Nature 572, 8 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02273-5

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