Will Smith says laughter's the best aphrodisiac

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Actor Will Smith has told Zoo magazine that women want to bed him because he makes them laugh.

"No one believes me, but comedy is better than muscles, money or looks. If you can make a girl laugh out loud, you're in there", says Smith, whose movie I Am Legend opens in Sydney on January 3.

"It's almost like the pressure of the laugh makes her panties fall off."

Smith's upbeat mood is in contrast to the gloomy tone of his new film, in which he plays the sole survivor of a virus that wipes out New York.

But even there he found some fodder for his humour. According to Britain's Daily Mail, he joked with the movie's producer at its London premiere: "How did you feel making a movie where the last man alive was a black guy?"

I Am Legend has taken $US76.5 million ($89 million) since it opened, making it the highest grossing December opening in US box office history. It has caused one commentator to remark: "Legend cements Smith as Hollywood's biggest, most bankable star."

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