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Why it’s funnier when you’re not allowed to laugh

Michelle Spear in The Conversation: Most people recognise the experience. A solemn setting. Absolute silence.

Absolute silence. A fleeting visual detail that is, in any other context, only mildly amusing at best. Yet the harder you try to suppress the laugh, the more uncontrollable it becomes.

Yet the harder you try to suppress the laugh, the more uncontrollable it becomes. When someone else notic.

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