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ORGANIZER:Dana Centre
DTEND:20080110T203000
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DESCRIPTION:Fun\, joking and satire have been left to the lay person for to
 o long. Comedians may think of themselves as professionals\, but they are d
 ealing with something they don’t really understand. In reality total amat
 eurs have been cracking gags\, others have been tittering and very little o
 f this spontaneous mirth has been quantified\, spreadsheeted and analysed b
 y scientific statisticians. No more. This event will demand a firmly empiri
 cal approach to humour. 
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\nWriter and performer Christopher Green poses 
 as a Public Outreach Facilitator from a new think tank set up by the prime 
 minister to examine humour in modern Britain. Gordon Brown’s posse are ke
 en to win over the satirists to their side\, to harness the traditional pow
 er of the comic\, and to know what the jokes are on the street before they 
 are even cracked. So they’ve appointed scientists to mingle with the grea
 t British public at the Dana Centre to try and understand in a no-nonsense 
 way what humour really is. Punters will be asked for their valued input in 
 deciding what’s funny. It’s interactive\, and the evidence-gathering ta
 kes many forms\, from an extended performance piece from Christopher Green\
 , to installation performances around the centre and one-on-one feedback se
 ssions. 
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\nPuerile and profound\, and cunningly controversial\, this exp
 eriential piece asks questions about science\, government and freedom\, but
  also has some cracking good jokes. Someone wanted to call the night ‘Sta
 ts Out for the Lads’\, but Gordon Brown didn’t think that was funny. 
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\n_Event organised by: The Science Museum_
SUMMARY:Seriously Funny: An interactive humour survey
DTSTART:20080110T190000
CREATED:20071210T154409
DTSTAMP:20080830T012626
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