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Originally Posted by Withano
I just googled and the oldest recorded joke (from 1900BC) was a fart joke, which made me sad about modern life more than anything else. Weve barely progressed in 3900 years.
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I find it sort of comforting really
. It's like how chimpanzees and some other primates find "other chimps falling over" really funny and properly crease up about it... and here we are, millions of years of evolution later, and 90% of "try not to laugh challenges"? PEOPLE FALLING OVER!
It was also the main staple of "You've Been Framed".
Clearly large aspects of basic humour are instinctual and timeless and there's something sort of grounding about that
. Farts and minor injuries are just amusing...
Swear to god, I was having an awful day quite recently, couldn't pick myself up at all... then I saw this youtube video:
And the rest of my day was spent with a smile on my face and a spring in my step.