# Why do we laugh less when we grow up?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 14, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-laugh-less-when-we-grow-up/352655 "2006-04-14T13:35:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-laugh-less-when-we-grow-up/352655/21 "2006-04-15T08:29:09Z")

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The chilling, desolate pain of the world that seeps into every fiber of your being along with your full awareness of your empty and miserable existence.

Duh.

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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2006, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-we-laugh-less-when-we-grow-up/352655/22 "2006-04-15T11:50:11Z")

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> [@Gymnopithys](#):
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> Today kids are so blasé they don’t even laugh watching Tom & Jerry. I still do. A lot.

I didn’t laugh at them in the 60’s & 70’s, when I was a kid.

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