Laurel van der Toorn

You did a study.

What is the lab set up to test laughter between parents and children?

What does that look like?

You just said to these participants, make your child laugh, go.

But if you did, that's for another interview, I'm sure.

Anyway.

OK, so what is what is a healthy relationship in this laughter?

Like what is what is a father who can make their kid laugh in that in that way say about the relationship and how secure it is and how well they're bonded?

Let's get to dad jokes.

So don't answer this question as a psychology professor who does research.

Just answer this question as an idiot like me.

Could your study be responsible for why dad jokes are so, I don't know, here in our culture?

Why they seem to be so important and so characteristic of dad?

It sounds like there's actually some real psychology behind dad jokes.

Very quickly, do you have a favorite one, Jean-Francois?

You can give me one in French or badly translated if you like.

You'll have to come back another time.

I'll give you one that I just jotted down.

I used to be addicted to soap, but I'm clean now.

Well, Jean-Francois Bureau is a psychology professor at the University of Ottawa.