Humor gave way to violence, as well as long conversations about what constitutes “funny” these days. Taking the Topic out of Hollywood ...

The very serious science of humor How studying what tickles our funny bone can help explain who we are.

What is humor exactly? The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at the University of Tulsa intends to explore funny business. OCH director Sean Latham, a professor of English, poses for a portrait ...

The emergence of humor so early in life suggests something important about human nature.

Humor results, they propose, when a person simultaneously recognizes both that an ethical, social or physical norm has been violated and that this violation is not very offensive, reprehensible or ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Damon Young about That's How They Get You, his new humor anthology featuring essays by Black writers.

As the author of a book on humor, I’m often asked to analyze what makes particular jokes funny. It’s dangerous because, as E.B. White said, analyzing humor is like dissecting frogs — the ...

What you think is funny and what you think is downright offensive says a lot about you. In this episode of Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam explores why some of us think, say, jokes about nut ...

As humans, we like jokes, so they should be a part of our technological systems as well.

“The connection between corporate strategy and humor is clear,” says business transformation expert Gabor George Burt. More organizations around the world are getting involved in creating ...