Anthill 16: Humour me

August is referred to as ridiculous period current profession – it is the season that you obtain tales regarding pets doing dumb points on the night information (instead of simply in web memes). So we believed we'd accept this and attempt to please you pink in this August episode of The Anthill podcast. In addition to a couple of poor jokes, we examine exactly just how our humour establishes as we mature. And we likewise appearance at the much a lot extra major side of being amusing. Initially up, we explore a little bit of the background of humour. It appears a great deal of our modern feeling of humour really takes motivation from those rigid and starchy Victorians of the 19th century. The Victorians, it ends up, liked absolutely nothing greater than a great old chuckle, as our editors Holly Squire and Paul Keaveny discovered when they talked to Bob Nicholson, a historian at Side Hillside College. Relying on something a bit much a lot extra base, our scientific research editor Mi...