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SUNDAY MAY 2 IS WORLD LAUGHTER DAY, WHEN WE’RE OFFICIALLY ENCOURAGED TO LIGHTEN UP. Stop giggling

at the back (unless it’s May 2 of course) because this is serious stuff. “The primary purposes of laughter are to reduce stress, connect with others and maintain relationships,” says organiser Steve Wilson, and he’s right. It turns out that it’s not jokes that make us laugh— it’s other people. This has nothing to do with

Characters to bond with? Peter Capaldi and Chris

Addison in The Thick of It

laughing at them. We just need people around us to start us off, says neurobiologist Robert Provine, who’s watched people laughing for 20 years. His study of 1,200 “laughter episodes” shows that in most cases, laughter follows banal statements such as, “I’ve got to go now”. “It’s like watching the world’s worst sitcom,” he says. We’re 30 times more likely

to chuckle in company than on our own—and, before you ask, watching TV alone is a sociable

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