What makes a joke funny? A professor and a journalist think they’ve uncovered the secrets of comedy, and they explain their findings in a new book The Humor Code: A Global Search For What Makes Things ...

This post is in response to Why Is Humor So Hard to Figure Out? By Nina Strohminger "Trying to define humor is one of the definitions of humor." So said Saul Steinberg, someone who wielded humor so ...

This spring, a group of University of Virginia students chose to try something new, an audio storytelling class that challenged them to explore humor in unexpected ways. In assistant professor of ...

Humor has long been seen as a “soft skill,” useful for easing awkward Zoom moments or sharing a laugh with colleagues. But CU Boulder researchers Tony Kong and Peter McGraw argue it’s far more than ...