Posted on 01/15/2014 11:32:55 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Having an unusual personality structure could be the secret to making other people laugh, scientists said on Thursday after research showed that comedians have high levels of psychotic personality traits.
In a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, researchers analyzed comedians from Australia, Britain and the United States and found they scored significantly higher on four types of psychotic characteristics compared to a control group of people who had non-creative jobs.
The traits included a tendency towards impulsive or anti-social behavior, and a tendency to avoid intimacy.
"The creative elements needed to produce humor are strikingly similar to those characterizing the cognitive style of people with psychosis - both schizophrenia and bipolar disorder," said Gordon Claridge of the University of Oxford's department of experimental psychology, who led the study....
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No *coughBILLMAHRcough* foolin’?
Well, that explains Hitler and Joe Biden.
Louis CK, Sarah Silverman, Lenny Bruce, Lisa Lampanelli, Rosie O’Donnell, Andy Kaufman, Roseanne Barr, etc., etc...
Talk about people you'd hate to be trapped with on a long flight..
Johnny Carson and Greg Gutfeld come to mind.
I’ve met some famous comics, and they were mostly messed up. Introverted, moody, lonely, dependant on drugs of various types etc.
Fun to meet, but not friend material, which was probably just fine with them too.
Athletes tend to come from good families.
I am sure I could come up with a sizable list of basketball/football players that would contradict that statement.
Louis CK is crude, but he can be laugh until you cry funny.
The others are just crude.
Two comedians walked into a bar and SHOT THE BARTENDER...
I was just about to mention Andy Kaufman. He was an odd duck. His eyes were always wide open and I find that rather creepy.
Anybody who’s worked with comedians, that’s who.
Tankyouveddymuch.
I actually read that in his voice.
He was a nutball, just as Jim Carrey is who played him in that stupid movie.
Carrey is really a flake. He went on and on about Emma Stone in some interview - really creepy. It was like “stalk much?”
Emma’s reaction was “Eeeeewwwwwww!”
Haha
Also more prone to suicide than many others.
Many are depressed and miserable in real life.
“I’ve met some famous comics, and they were mostly messed up. Introverted...”
Introverted? That surprises me, I would think that a stand-up comic would have to be an extrovert to get up in front of that many people.
Exactly! I have 4 comedian 'acquaintances' for that very reason. Most of them are so needy, it's annoying. Josh Blue is a friend, but he's the only normal one I've been able to have a normal conversation with. I can't imagine walking in any of their shoes, though.
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