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Welcome to the Scientific American podcast, Science Talk, posted on July 7th, 2014.

I'm Steve Murksky.

On this episode, Rowan Atkinson is hilarious and he's Mr. Bean.

And there have actually been studies that have looked at Mr. Bean comedy. And they've examined

people's brain responses as watching him do his very physical humor. And you can actually

see the humor being processed in the brain.

That's Scott Weems. He's a cognitive neuroscientist and the author of the book,

Ha! With an exclamation point, the science of when we laugh and why.

He's based in Little Rock, Arkansas, but was passing through New York a few months back and visited Scientific American, where we sat down

for a serious conversation about the science of what's funny.

Scott, I went to a screening of this new movie Pompeii, which shows the entire city of

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