While traveling the world exploring the science of what makes things funny, we stumbled on an important question: What makes a good comedy club? According to many of the comics we interviewed, a ...

Humor is a science University of Colorado's Peter McGraw and his "Humor Research Lab" may have cracked the code to what makes us laugh ...

Dark humor, done right, may be key according to The Humor Code co-authors, Peter McGraw and Joel Warner who travelled the world in search of the answer. Can you suggest an unexpected, ...

Peter McGraw, left, and Joel Warner's new book, "The Humor Code," chronicled their exhaustive search for the sources of levity. Of all the things Joel Warner and Peter McGraw did for their book ...

Professor Peter McGraw and writer Joel Warner have teamed up to explore the science of humor on a global expedition. The Humor Code chronicles their adventures, scientific experiments and ...

The Humor Code chronicles their adventures, scientific experiments and unintentional comedy along the way. Learn more about McGraw, Warner and their escapades at HumorCode.com .

The Humor Code has competition in the form of books like Scott Weems’ Ha! The Science of When We Laugh and Why , which was published on March 4th. But as similarly good-natured as it is, Ha!

The Humor Code. Published:9/1/2014 9/1/2014 • By Clay Evans. To identify the funniest U.S. city, CU-Boulder researchers developed their own humor algorithm. Skiers swarm the slopes of Colorado, art ...

This fall, at San Jose State, I will be teaching a seminar on American humor writing. It’s the first time my department has offered this course, so I have to construct the reading list from ...

Live from your computer screens, it's Code Switch! Guest hosts Ayesha Rascoe and Denice Frohman joined us to talk poetry and humor with special guests Paul Tran and Hari Kondabolu. Then, Ayesha ...