Dr Richard Wiseman, a University of Hertfordshire psychologist, conducted more than a year”s Government-backed research to find the definitive golden gag. His research for the British Association for the Advancement of Science”s LaughLab project involved more than 40,000 jokes.
A man and his wife were not speaking to each other, but the man realised he would need her to wake him at 5am to catch a flight to Sydney.
Not wanting to be the first to break the silence, he wrote on a piece of paper, ”please wake me at 5am.” The next morning, he woke at 9am to discover he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife had not woken him when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed saying!
”It”s 5am, please wake up.”