#137: How to Be Funnier With Peter McGraw

The Art of Manliness

• Episode: #137: How to Be Funnier With Peter McGraw
• Website: The Art of Manliness
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/artofmanlinesspodcast
• Duration: 00:37:29
• Published: 2015-09-10 23:18

It’s a question that philosophers have taken on since Aristotle.
What makes something funny?
Going beyond that– why do we laugh in the first place? Because if you step back and look at it, laughing is pretty dang weird.
Well, my guest today on the podcast went on a world wide tour to uncover the science of humor. His name is Peter McGraw. He’s a behavioral scientist at the University of Colorado in Boulder and he’s the co-author of the book The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny. Today on the podcast Peter and I discuss the findings from his research around the world as well as in his humor lab at the University of Colorado. If you’re looking to add a bit more humor into your life, you won’t want to miss this.