A survey was published today into how humour varies according to culture.

Americans, apparently, find jokes about 'superiority' most amusing. (Well...that hardly comes as any surprise.) Comparing an intelligent person to a stupid person is as funny as it gets in the U.S. (It also goes some way towards explaining why everyone smiles when Bush appears.)

Europeans, on the other hand, enjoy jokes about edgy subjects, such as death. (This also explains a great deal. No doubt they'll be laughing their tits off once the War in Iraq kicks off again.)

The Brits and the Australians, however, prefer word play. Yeah...that one stumped me as well, but as an example the chap being interviewed about this on the news cited the following joke:

A man walks into the doctors and says, "Doctor, I've got a strawberry wedged up my bum."

"Not to worry," the doctor replies. "I've got some cream for that."

That, apparenly, is word play. And I thought we just found bumholes funny.

The Canadians don't find anything funny, unfortunately. But that's because they have no sense of humour.