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Hello everyone, welcome back to Luke's English podcast and this is part three of

this sort of mini series that I'm doing all about jokes in the previous two episodes

we considered how and when you should tell jokes, some typical joke structures

and what makes jokes funny or unfunny.

And I'm going through a list of jokes for you to hear and learn from.

Okay? So it's not just about jokes, there's also lots of language to be learned from jokes too.

So let's carry on. And before I go back into my list of sort of dodgy jokes

let's just let's consider the psychology of jokes or the psychology of puns And I think it's quite interesting.

Here's a question, why do we tell jokes?

Now I've kind of answered that already,

but let's go a little bit deeper.

Is it all just fun is it all just for fun or is there

something deeper and more psychological going on here let's listen to another

clip the clip I'm going to play to you now is from Tim Vines DVD called

So I Said to this bloke, which is an extra from his DVD and this is an extract from an interview that he did about the

psychology of puns. Remember a pun is a word joke. So Tim Vine, remember him? He's the guy who won the joke of the year several times for his jokes.

One of them was conjunctivitis.com. Now there's a site for

A site for saw eyes. A joke that you probably don't find funny, but you know many other people did

So Tim Vine in this clip is talking to a psychologist called Ingrid Collins about why we like puns.

And you should remember that Tim Vine is one of the country's most well-known comedians and he's a compulsive writer of jokes.

So listen to him talking to Ingrid Collins, a psychologist about why we like telling jokes.

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