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Prof. Eric Hoffman and Dr. Gary Rudoren are two of the world’s foremost researchers in the field of humor. Their new book, “Comedy By the Numbers” contains “The 169 secrets of humor and popularity.” They promise that you don’t need to be funny to be funny — just memorize their system, and you’ll quickly be impressing the cool kids.
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