Personally, I find jokes about tragedy most enjoyable to tell before enough time has passed for most people to find the joke funny.
Anyway, these guys experimented pre and post during Hurricane Sandy to find out when jokes about tragedy are found to be funny.
Gradually, week-by-week, people rated the tweets as increasingly funny, with peak funniness observed at 36 days after the tragedy.
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Locating the “sweet spot” when jokes about tragedy are seen as funny
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