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Hot boyfriend.

Hot boyfriend who?

Your hot boyfriend whose jokes aren’t actually that funny, but we all laugh anyway because he’s hot.

It turns out that physical looks trump even humour when it comes to how humans choose a mate. In fact, a new study at the University of Stirling in the U.K. has even gone as far as to prove that more attractive people rate higher on the funniness scale than their mere average counterparts, which flies in the face of traditional hypotheses that being funny could help boost the attractiveness of a person.

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Canadian stand-up comedian Debra DiGiovanni jokes about eating a skinny man for dinner, about the borderline inappropriate relationship she has with her cat, about wanting to be called a “retrosexual,” or someone who hasn’t had sex in 20 years and likes to do it to ’80s music.