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Your Brain on Slapstick

  • Venue: Morecambe Winter Gardens 209 Marine Road, Morecambe Morecambe LA4 4BU UK (map)

Pratfalls, chaos, custard pies and other mishaps - why is slapstick comedy funny and what is happening in our brains when we laugh?

Professor Sophie Scott, world-acknowledged expert in the neuroscience of comedy, joins composer and broadcaster Neil Brand to explore what is going on in our heads when we laugh at silent film comedy.

Part of Silents by the Sea 2024. Great value festival passes and tickets for other events including Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid available here.

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