Unfortunately, Lazzy and I are not able to make a clip of it. But given it is Headline News, they often repeat the same story segments throughout the day. So if you tune in, you MAY catch it again. We have a 6 hour tape recording right now, hoping to catch the entire segment rather than the second half of it. All total, the segment is around 5 minutes long.
I can not tell you what happens in the first part of the segment, due to us missing it. But from where we did catch it, it's two of the female newscasters, sitting at their desk discussing tickling, and whether they enjoy being tickled or not. One newscaster is an older darker haired lady, and the other is a young, long haired blonde. Through their discussion, they both agree they dislike being tickled, and both only have one thought going through their mind while being tickled..."When is it gonna stop?!" The blonde then adds the comment "I can't imagine ANYONE liking it!"
The camera then goes back to the dark haired woman, and she explains this is actually a follow up segment on a previous story they had ran on "why people are ticklish". This segment deals with why do we laugh when tickled, and is it the same kind of laugh we experience when we hear or see something funny. They roll several short clips of people being tickled. The first is an elder gentleman, whose wife sneaks up behind him and tickles his sides. He laughs loudly, and squirms away from her, covering his sides with his arms. He then states to the camera that he hates being tickled. The next one is a young blonde, being tickled quite severely by her boyfriend. First he sneaks up behind her and tickles her sides, to which she collapses on the ground shrieking. Then she stands back up, and he gets her in sort of a backwards pin, with her arms pulled back above her head, and held there by his elbows, allowing him free reign to tickle her sides and underarms (during which she is going ballistic, screaming and laughing frantically). He lets her have it for a good 3-4 seconds full force before the camera cuts away to where she is discussing being tickled. She states she hates being tickled, and sometimes if it is done to long or too forcefully, it becomes painful. Then they cut to another interview, with two young girls, possily of asian descent, and one is telling how she also hates being tickled, and that her sisters tickle her often until she can not breathe. They end the video segment with two more young girls, who are blindfolded and have one bare foot propped on a table sort of thing, and then are foot tickled. One girl (blonde, I believe), only giggles and twitches slightly, but the other girl, a dark haired girl, covers her face with her hands and giggles quite madly, while squirming and jumping back and forth in her chair while being tickled.
They tie up the whole segment by going back to the two newscasters, where the dark haired one states that studies show the laughter we experience while being tickled is completely different from the laughter we experience when laughing at a joke or something humorous. That ticklish laughter is much more of a reflex, much like when we jump or pull out foot away when it's tickled. She also says that with humor, such as when watching a standup comedian, that people must first be warmed up in order to bring forth the laughter...it's not an immediate response. But with tickling, there is no lead up required. The laughter brought forth from tickling is immediate.
I think that covers it. If we manage to catch the entire segment, I will post again on this thread with the details of the first half of it that we missed.
Mimi 🙂
