Successful Comedians Do *This*, According To Science

Read on to find out what *this* is, it's cool, promise

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I like to read about the psychology behind comedy because I’m a comedian, and because it’s interesting to me, and because why people do the things we do or don’t do is interesting to me, and because I like to read about almost anything involving comedy. You might even call me obsessed with comedy.

So when I saw a concept outlined in an old Psychology Today article that explained a tactic the author, a real live, good ol’ ph.d. doctor, discovered (through research) that successful comedians do, I got excited, because that’s what happens when I read titillating comedy stuff.

It said, in a nutshell, that comedians who tell jokes that are