Why comedians are slightly psychotic: Study reveals without ounce of humour

Crazy bunch: a new study reveals comedians are slightly more psychotic than the not-so-funny.

Having an unusual personality structure could be the secret to making other people laugh, scientists said after research showed that comedians have high levels of psychotic personality traits.

In a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, researchers analysed 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.