"Boomer Humor" is a subset of humor that has become prevalent on social media, especially Facebook, in the past decade. Disobeyart / Getty Images It often involves minions, blurry pictures of old ...

With comedy, timing can often be everything—but it isn’t the only thing that makes a joke land. Slapstick, camp, and satire all have their place in the comedic landscape and require different skills ...

Roaster Jeffrey Ross onstage during Comedy Central’s Roast of Joan Rivers at CBS Radford Studios on July 26, 2009 in Studio City, California. According to Venkateshwaran, friend groups where members ...

“HUMOR can be dissected, as a frog can,” E. B. White once warned, “but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.” Until recently, many ...

I heard a great joke about coronavirus the other day, but you probably won't get it. Did you hear that researchers have delayed the coronavirus vaccine until they figure out how to make it cause ...

Think of the most hilarious video you've ever seen on the internet. Why is it so funny? As a researcher who investigates some of the potential side effects of humor, I spend a fair bit of time ...

“ Dagonet, the fool, whom Gawain in his mood Had made mock-knight of Arthur’s Table Round, At Camelot, high above the yellowing woods, Danced like a withered leaf before the hall.” That is the view ...