...and they get paid for this nonsense!

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"Evolutionary biologists have traced the origins of laughter back 4m years

to pre-humans slipping and stumbling in their first faltering attempts to

walk on two legs.

 

According to the theory, when they saw a member of their group lose his

footing they would laugh as a sign to each other that something was amiss,

but nothing too serious.

 

The theory could explain why, to this day, the ungainly walk remains a

staple element of slapstick humour from John Cleese’s “Ministry of Silly

Walks” to Rowan Atkinson’s accident-prone Mr Bean. . . .

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2157946_1,00.html