Why do we laugh?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 13.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Laughter is like a language and humans are really good at understanding it.

In this episode, Molly and co-host Milla decode different kinds of laughs, from uncontrollable goofy laughter to chuckles that make others feel good.

They’ll meet laugh experts Sophie Scott and Adrienne Wood and test their knowledge in three rounds of the game show: Laugh Attack!

Plus, a new mystery sound for you to guess!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Brainson, where we're serious about being curious.
0:04.0	Brains on is supported in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
0:12.0	These are excellent seats.
0:15.0	I know. I've been so curious about this show.
0:18.0	Glad you could come with me.
0:20.0	Oh, it's starting.
0:23.0	Hello fellow Chorte Oh, it's starting. Hello, fellow, chortlers and chucklers, gafars and gigglers,
0:26.0	gafars and gigglers,
0:28.0	he-hars and ha-hars.
0:31.0	Welcome to She Who L laughs Last.
0:35.0	Look, it's Rosie, we know her.
0:37.0	I know, I'm so proud of her for putting together this one woman show.
0:42.0	As you no doubt read in the many reviews from fine publications such as
0:48.0	stuff happening on stage magazine and that one flyer someone definitely, definitely not me, put up on every telephone pole in a
0:55.8	four mile radius, this is a show about laughter.
1:01.6	Specifically, my recreation of some of the most profound and moving laughter
1:08.0	I have come across in my years of research.
1:11.0	Let us begin. Laughing at the perfect knock-knock joke.
1:17.0	Laughing at the perfect knock-knock joke.
1:27.0	Laughing at a bad knock-knock joke.
1:35.0	Laughing at a dog who got his head stuck in a cereal box.
1:42.0	Oh!
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