Day: April 27, 2012

University of Colorado psychology professor Peter McGraw and Denver-based journalist Joel Warner are trying to unlock the formula to funny — what makes something universally funny? — or as they’re calling it, the Humor Code. They’ve explored the impact of Mad Men drinking on an actual NYC ad agency team to see if everything seemed funnier as they got drunker — “the more you drink, the funnier we become,” the old stand-up MC adage goes. Here are some of the more NSFW Venn diagrams their drunken advertising subjects produced. They’ve hit up Hollywood, or more specifically the TV studios...