Richard Wiseman and Lewis Black - World's Funniest Joke

[MultiBakuganfan1]

The worlds funniest joke is this... A guy was walking down the street and tripped!!!

:p

[5ardee]

thumbs up if he looks like steve jobs:)

[mythmanjay]

Comedy is in timing. EVERY joke is the world's funniest, at the right time.

[TheShenanigansfilms]

justin beiber is cool ...... worlds funniest joke

[Hallucigeniacouk]

richard wiseman's delivery wasn't great which is strange because he's normally so entertaining.

the joke was originally by spike milligan, which i don't get because mobiles weren't around in those days. but anyway, it is a genius joke...and won for a number of reasons i.e. everyone gets it, it's not offensive etc. other jokes may have been funnier to some but wouldn't have been universally funny like this is

[magicelliotth]

Lewis Black deserves a jolly good slap.

How dare he put the fab Richard Wiseman down

[basilization1]

Women are just like a good beer. Best when cold and bitter.

[Steve7508]

What do you do when your dishwasher breaks down? Slap her!

[Steve7508]

Taking the rude or taboo ones out is like drinking decaffeinated coffee or non-alcoholic beer - kind of pointless.

[Algolei]

An infinite number of physicists walk into a bar. The first one orders a pint. The second one orders half a pint. The third one orders a quarter of a pint.

"Okay, okay, I get it," says the barkeeper, and brings them two pints.

[MisteruEksu]

It's Richard Wiseman! The Quirkology guy! :D

[irishmckiddo]

a burger walks into a bar and the barman

says "sorry we dont serve food here

[MrCharlielugtu]

I really don't understand of what is so funny about the world's greatest joke. It does not makes me laugh.

[CammehYaBams]

Lewis Black is a fucking cunt.

[Kevster1993]

Never heard of Lewis Black.

What a cunt.

[JamieGibsonGuitar]

@Kevster1993 I agree.

[BRADvsBR4D]

Why did the farmer look through the window?

.

.

Because he couldn't see through the wall.

[897384]

A Horse walks into a bar and the barman says:

"Why the long face"?

[madrabiddog]

Every comedian knows that The Aristocrats is the best joke ever and is the WWE Title for comedians.

On that note:

What's Blue and Smells Like Paint? Blue Paint.

What's Black and Smells Like Shit? Niggers.

What's Black and Smells Like Your Daughter? My Dick.

What's Pink and Smells Like Fish? Salmon.

What's The Meaning of Life? Shake Weight Loss Shakes.

[thallassocracy]

Science can't explain jokes the way that it can't explain evolution.

Wiseman is pretending to be stupid and closed-minded, and he thinks this is funny.

It is probably funny to him.

[daledaddy1]

@thallassocracy Science can't can't explain evolution? Since When?  You're an idiot.

[heavenshaffer]

I thougth that the make sure he's dead joke was funny. So there!!!

[WorldIndustrieszone]

worst joke i have ever heard

[CrispyNoodleCupGirl]

Loe how the joke Richard Wiseman did was funnier than any of the stuff that Lewis Black guy said.

xoxo

[probulator1]

but rudeness adds to humour...

ACTUAL FUNNIEST JOKE:

My girlfriend called me a pedophile last night.... pretty big word for a 3year old dnt tink, just thumbs up plz, tnk u

[akaZhangster]

@probulator1 rofl, that is comedy

[Christytta]

Dr. Wiseman did research to understand comedy, Mr. Black tried to make comedy out of science. :-) It looks like a personal attack on Mr. Wiseman, or Mr. Black doesn't like Statistics as a science. :-)

After all, the world's funniest joke within the scope of this study was revealed by a statistical research and it's natural that the joke is a mediocre joke. That's an average statistical result! Mr. Wiseman didn't really think that was the funniest joke in the world, did he...?

[LabakiTurbo]

@Christytta Also, even if the best joke was way-off-the-statistic-chart sort of funny, Dr. Wiseman would still ruin it - he's the worst joke teller ever! :P

[Christytta]

@LabakiTurbo

But Dr. Wiseman doesn't claim to be a good joke-teller, does he? He's a scientist and simply introduces the results of the research and it's OK that he doesn't sound funny.

[LabakiTurbo]

@Christytta Yeah, sure! He told the joke as if presenting the result of a research - Lewis Black shouldn't have expected it to be funny. At most, 'interesting', or 'remarkable', or 'enlightening', or any other adjective used in scientific papers. :P

[Christytta]

@LabakiTurbo

p.s. While Dr. Wiseman centered his attention upon the research (the main idea of which was NOT the joke itself, believe me), Mr. Black centered his entire attention on the joke itself (which is really ridiculous!). The funniest thing in this situation is the misunderstanding between the scientist and the comedian. This kind of misunderstanding is a common thing.

[Christytta]

To me, the funniest phrase in this video was: "Big surprise- he's British. - Ooh, boy!"

And the funniest part was: "Well, we did research to understand comedy, what do you do? :-)

[madskillz173]

lol joke at the end was funny

[mulekedarua]

please,i now the funniest joke

[Goblin51892]

Well, I certainly felt like one. I still think the coincidence was pretty funny.

[Goblin51892]

Ok, so my computer randomly shut down right after he said there was a gunshot and the hunter asked "Now what"? Briefly, I thought my computer shutting down was the punchline.

[ConsoleCommander]

you must be a dolt

[LabakiTurbo]

@Goblin51892 LOL

It's like curtains closing.

But that's not joke - it's just ordinary Microsoft prank.

[jwlbailey]

Richard Wiseman for PM

[doomsday19821982]

Lewis Black for president.

[Hrothulf19]

What happened to the man who lost the entire left side of his body?

He's all right now.

[fatman1001]

@Hrothulf19

Thats good

[baggedyman]

So what was the world funniest joke on the show?

[someonesperson]

agghhh why is that guy chewing gum like that. it makes me want to hit him in the mouth.

[doomster1333]

that joke sucked

[dragonforcesk8]

Two hikers are out in the forest, one of them falls to the ground and lays motionless, the other whips out his Phone and contacts emergency services. when someone answers he says: OMG my friend is laying motionless on the ground, what am i going to do?!!! then the person answers: whoa whoa whoa, slow down, we are here to help, first of all, you have to make sure that he is dead. the person hears a small period of silence, then the sound of an axe hitting a watermelon. Ok, im back, whats next?

[nofoshow5]

Whoever can tell me laugh till i cry- i mean like me shiting lulerskates- willwin a sticker

[ReX342]

They should do this with adult jokes. I wish I were the guy taking the offensive jokes out. Would have laughted my arse off all day. Can I say that? Is that not offensive to proctologists?

[techpops]

I think it got through the youtube police censors because it was a british behind. Had it been a US one, a random worker in the third world would have been contacted where upon they would have edited the word and replaced it with asterix's. You know, these ***** So remember, arse ok, *** not ok but *** helps pay poor peoples wages so *** ****in use it as ******* much as i **** can.

[yourmum739]

you're right...comedy is subjective

cos i didnt find this video funny at all! haaa

[targetHERO3S]

why was hellen keller a bad driver

she was a women

[lenarox]

you horses ass.

[coxx069]

that explains everything!!!

[shadowx7og]

i dont get it............ haha

[IndependentEsse]

I lauged at that joke more than the "world's funniest joke"

[beebobox]

i like that a jokes

[insightllc]

@targetHERO3S How do you get a gay guy to fuck a woman? Shit in her pussy. -Tesla made earthquakes in 1899 bitches

[funkmasterfunkster]

i liked the last joke that was told i dont care what any one says it was funny

[cyorgan]

was that one chick in the crowd the hot blonde from Boston Legal?

[crimsonwings9999]

I think the experiment forgot the element

of delivery,, I mean jokes are made special by how people deliver them, Even if you could told the funniest joke in the world but you said it without any emotion then the joke would be bland

[AradynnNyzon]

wiseman is a pretty bright guy and a great joke teller himself, i'm fairly certain it was intentional

[RabidDogma]

Wiseman is an expert at screwing with people's assumptions, of course he was in on it. Love the guy!

[heylildancerere]

I went to a conference that Richard Wiseman did =) he's actually really funny and really interesting =)

[skippyasqueeze]

Playing With Our Words

My wife was in labor with our first child. Things were going pretty well when suddenly she began to shout, "Shouldn't, couldn't, wouldn't, didn't, can't!"

"Doctor, what's wrong with my wife?"

"Nothing. She's just having contractions."

[MaestroB0B]

The little moral that Black tells Wiseman actually is the conclusion Wiseman has told in his book.

[Darkray12]

you know its all set up right?

[chopperhead2011]

Hahaha I saw this on the History Channel!!!

[LoafofCat]

LOL, A WOMAN, THAT'S AWESOME

[jingham06]

the american guy is pretty annoying, and long jokes suck tbh... what's got two legs and bleeds?

[PrisonMind]

ok, it didnt go well... thought by replying to my own comment it would appear below, guess not.

[PrisonMind]

(Due to lack of characters I had to split my comment into two)

Out of the 2 million participants in Richard Wiseman's study, the joke voted second funniest is the Sherlock Holmes one below (if all goes well, it will be the comment right after this one.)

Ref: Myers, D. G. 2004, 'Psychology', 7th Edition, Worth Publishers, pp.387.

[PrisonMind]

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are going camping. They pitch their tent under the starts & go to sleep. Sometime in the middle of the night Holmes wakes Watson up.

Holmes: "Watson, look up at the stars & tell me what u deduce."

Watson: "I see millions of stars & even if a few of those have planets, its quite likely there are some planets like Earth, & if there r planets like Earth, there might also b life. What does it tell u Holmes?"

Holmes: "Watson you idiot, somebody has stolen our tent!"

[policyguy224]

sad, sad joke

[vrgd]

nah, it's quite funny...

[RandomProductions1]

Yeah, he's cool. Like USA have anything funny to say. They laugh at the shittiest jokes. At least people from other countries like the UK have a sense of humor.

[ryanrriekkoff]

wow that is some ignorant shit man. why does everyone hate on americans all the time like its the cool trendy thing to do fuck you you piece of shit

[RandomProductions1]

your cool, not. It's because they think they are the best country in the world when in reality their currency is worth nothing, their president is crap, they are dumb and gullible, they are racist, they get oil half the price of any European country then they complain its too expensive, etc. I come say so much.

[socreddy]

Euros are pretty racist too...

Take Gypsies for example, most everyone hates them as an ethnic minority, good job.

[RandomProductions1]

Euros? That's a currency, idiot, and if I hear something on some USA news channel, all it talks about is how a "black man" has committed a crime. It's like they are targeting black people.

[socreddy]

Wow, way to get nitpicky about common slang terms, I'm sorry if I offended...

Hehe, Gypsies are akin to the Blacks in America, except that Black people have risen above the prejudices and done something in the counry. Whereas gypsies are still ethnically repressed.

[RandomProductions1]

why are you talking about gypsies?

[socreddy]

Because you mentioned racism in the US and you neglected to mention racism in Europe. Not fair play just being solely an accuser. :-P

[RandomProductions1]

why gypsies? you hate them too? But everyone knows the USA have a problem with racism compared to other countries.

[socreddy]

Hah, no I don't hate gypsies. Just saying, racism isn't restricted to one country or even one social group.

[RandomProductions1]

clap*

[cordsman]

i love the joke:

a woman goes into a library and asks the librarian for some hamburgers.

the librarian says, "maam, this is a library", in a whisper. the lady whispers, "im so sorry, may i have some hamburgers?" haha

[twoodin]

You get paid for it?

No one got paid.

Muhhhh

[mycatpatch]

the guy keeps trying to be funny and he isnt, 4 mins of laughless stuff really

[SpriteSavior]

that joke was worse than the phrase "it's cornier than corn"--and that is pretty terrible. Thank God Lewis Black took his theory and shoved it up his arse

[themightycelestial]

The reaction to the Helen Keller joke was funnier that the joke itself.

[buskama]

he's acting like a school kid to be sarcastic, it's pretty obvious

[NicTheBatman]

They didn't really think that was the funniest joke in the world did they...?

[Molk0Monger]

holy shit is that hal sparks hahahahahah

[waynegoodman]

lewis who ..... ahhh surprise surprise he is a yank

[Tabla461]

Richard who....... ahhh surprise he is a FAGGOT!!

[YourFaveIntrovert]

okay...the helen keller joke was funny.

[speshulk3]

Where's the rest of this show?

[SuperBob909]

You tell him lewis.

[dudeheadkid]

lmao

[camiloernestormzg]

Lewis Black is greate!!!!!!

[phanface]

YES! That "study" was complete and utter crap. Lewis Black, not HE'S funny!!

[blondeseashell]

Thanks for putting this up! I loved the whole show. Got any more?