Episode 055 - Dr. Peter McGraw

Probably Science

Andy Wood, Matt Kirshen

Jessecase, Comedy, News, Mattkirshen, Standup, Andywood, Science & Medicine, Science, Brookswheelan

4.8 • 707 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2013

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Peter McGraw (twitter.com/petermcgraw) heads the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) at UC Boulder, and he joins Matt, Andy and returning guest Baron Vaughn (twitter.com/barvonblaq) for a special episode devoted entirely to the science of why things are funny. Peter's Benign Violation Theory is a robust, empirically testable explanation of humor in all its forms, and it's the basis of Peter and Joel Warner's upcoming book The Humor Code. For more information on Peter's work, visit humorcode.com and humorresearchlab.org.

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0:00.0	Probably Science
0:02.0	Welcome to Probably Science.
0:13.0	I am Andy Wood, joined by Matt Kirshin.
0:15.0	Hello.
0:16.0	And we have a very special episode this week.
0:18.5	We have had some comments recently that there hasn't been a ton of science in this podcast. First of all, we should remind you the title of the podcast
0:24.9	is probably science. And there's been a lot of probably. There's been a lot. The probability of science
0:29.1	has dropped drastically. But yeah, for new listeners, by the way, Matt and I both do actually
0:34.1	have science pedigrees of sorts. I have an engineering degree. Matt has a
0:38.8	math's degree, as they say. Thank you for pluralizing it for me. For some reason. But most of the time,
0:44.8	we do talk about comedy. But luckily this week, we will be talking a ton about science,
0:51.0	the science of comedy, because we are joined by two great guests, returning for
0:56.1	the first, for his first repeat appearance on the podcast, Baron Vaughn of USA's Fairly
1:00.9	Legal.
1:01.3	I'm kind of offended that the first thing that you thought of when you looked at me was
1:04.7	repeat offender.
1:06.6	Listen, we all have our innate things.
1:12.1	So articulate.
1:14.1	Yeah.
1:14.6	I love it when my black friends refer to me as articulate.
1:17.9	And he's an innate thing is vocab.
1:19.7	Yeah.
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