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Published online 4 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021001-11
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Side splitter settled
Humour experiment pins down universal gag.
It took a year of painstaking laughter and cringing. Now scientists have announced the results of an experiment to find the funniest joke in the world.
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