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“Thank God it could never happen here,” Johnson says with a rueful laugh.

"I'm actually doing a movie in London, which never happens," she laughed.

James’ laughing answer set the template for a season.

"When I think about it now, that was really bold," she laughs.

Organised by the journal Annals of Improbable Research and co-sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe groups, the 34-year-old Ig Nobel awards 10 prizes annually, aiming to ”make people laugh, then think… celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative”.