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Science Has Some Bad News for Extremely Funny People

A 2016 study on the subject had some grim results

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A study published in the International Journal of Cardiology back in 2016 focused on the morbid topic of comedians dying young. The goal was to determine whether the phenomenon was limited to comics or occurred in other areas of the entertainment world as well. According to the study’s lead author, Simon Stewart, the idea came about following Robin Williams’s premature death a couple of years earlier. From there, Stewart realized that the funnier members of his favorite comedy duos had all died first. 

To begin with, Stewart and his fellow researchers at the Mary McKillop Institute for Health Research at Australian Catholic University examined the top 200 performers in a few categories on Ranker.com. This included........

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