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Why Are We Ticklish? Why do We Laugh?

Vsauce | May 10, 2025



Awesome London YouTubers in this episode:

Khyan: http://www.youtube.com/Khyan
Tom Ska: http://www.youtube.com/tomska
Jenny Bingham: http://www.youtube.com/thatjennybee
Charlie: http://www.youtube.com/user/charlieissocoollike

Video shot by Ciaran who also made this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hjoDOnzr5s

music by Jake Chudnow: http://www.soundcloud.com/JakeChudnow

More tweets from Khyan: http://twitter.com/#!/khyan

Some of his most popular: http://favstar.fm/users/Khyan

LEARN LINKS:

Great all-around artcile on humor and laughing and tickling: http://www.damninteresting.com/humoring-the-gelotologists/

More on the vocab of humor research: http://www.worldlaughtertour.com/pdfs/gelopedia.pdf

Theories of Humor: https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/monro.html

Psychology Today interview with comedians about what makes something funny: http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200808/wisecrackers

Scary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_from_laughter

Demetri Martin tweeted images: http://www.whosay.com/DemetriMartin/photos/

Tickling on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickling

Written by Vsauce

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