We have yet to touch on the topic of timing: comedians who perform in front of an audience often say that timing is important.
There can be a delay of a few seconds between punchline and the start of the laughter, and once the laughter begins, it usually gets loud very quickly. This behavior suggests that there is a (social?) cost to laughing at something most of the audience choose not to laugh at and also probably a cost to not laughing when most are laughing.
We have yet to touch on the topic of timing: comedians who perform in front of an audience often say that timing is important.
There can be a delay of a few seconds between punchline and the start of the laughter, and once the laughter begins, it usually gets loud very quickly. This behavior suggests that there is a (social?) cost to laughing at something most of the audience choose not to laugh at and also probably a cost to not laughing when most are laughing.