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Science Vs: The Funniest Joke in the World

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.643.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

When he rounded them up, he had a 100. A few months ago, Wendy Zukerman invited our own Latif Nasser to come on her show, and, of course, he jumped at the chance. Laughter ensued, as they set off to find the "The Funniest Joke in the World." When you just Google something like that, the internet might serve you, "What has many keys but can't open a single lock??” (Answer: A piano). So they had to dig deeper. According to science. And for this quest they interviewed a bunch of amazing comics including Tig Notaro, Adam Conover, Dr Jason Leong, Loni Love, and, of course, some scientists: Neuroscientist Professor Sophie Scott and Psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman. Which Joke Will Win??? Special thanks to Wendy Zuckerman and the entire team over at Science Vs We have some exciting news! In the “Zoozve” episode, Radiolab named its first-ever quasi-moon, and now it's your turn! Radiolab has teamed up with The International Astronomical Union to launch a global naming contest for one of Earth’s quasi-moons. This is your chance to make your mark on the heavens. Vote on your favorites soon, check here for details: https://radiolab.org/moon Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab today. Signup for our newsletter. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing [email protected]. Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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You're listening to Radio Lab.

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Radio Lab.

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From W. N. Y.

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C.

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See?

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Yeah.

0:26.9

Hey, I'm Latif Nasser.

0:28.4

This is Radio Lab.

0:29.8

A few months back, I got an email from the ever-effervescent Wendy Zuckerman, who hosts the podcast

0:37.4

Science versus some of you might know it.

0:40.4

And she invited me on her show.

0:43.2

Now, if you don't know the show, every episode they take a subject could be, I don't know, like,

0:49.1

intermittent fasting or menopause or I think they did one on ghosts.

0:55.2

They'll just pick a topic and then they'll dig up all the science they can find on it

1:00.7

and they'll kind of go over it and they'll poke and prod it.

1:04.2

How do we know what we know?

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