What you found funny when you were younger may not tickle you now


Everything changes with age. Researchers find that our sense of humour alters as we get older. -- AFP

The older you get, the more your taste in humour changes.

Making jokes at the expense of others becomes less funny as we age, according to a new study that used sitcoms to gauge humour at the University of Akron in Ohio, USA.

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