America’s Funniest City Is….

Screen Shot 2014-04-21 at 9.39.17 AMChicago followed by Boston and then somehow Atlanta.

Peter McGraw, the University of Colorado professor who compiled the rankings and, with Joel Warner, just released a book, “The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny,” insisted that the findings were no joke. “Chicago and Boston made sense,” he said. “Atlanta and Washington were surprisingly high, New York and Los Angeles were a little bit low.

New York finished 6th dragged down by what was known as the “Vos Factor.”

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