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It's not the way you tell them, it's the way you look

A team of scientists in Scotland claim to have discovered the perfect face for comedy. BBC News online reports that the team from Stirling University used computer software to blend 179 different facial features of 20 top comedians, allowing them to identify those that are more most likely to make people laugh.

Unfortunately for the Conservatives, the researchers concluded that party leader David Cameron’s round and wide facial shape, large eyes and soft feature were typical of the archetypal “funny” face, while his rivals Tony Blair and Gordon Brown sport features that are “too classic and masculine” to raise a laugh. Other celebrity “funny faces” identified by the researchers were Ricky Gervais, chef Jamie Oliver and footballer Wayne Rooney.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .