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 ...

Key points. Laughter and humor are inexorably tied to vulnerability, but when explaining them, it is easier to employ a term we use as its measure: status.

Ready to crack the surprising Humor Code for one of the main reasons we laugh? From stand-up comedy to laughing (the right way) after a tragic event, see what a scientist and a journalist ...

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!

Analyzing humor, observed American author E.B. White, is like dissecting a frog. "Few people are interested, and the frog dies of it.” But that has not deterred Peter McGraw. McGraw teaches ...

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 ...

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 ...

Key points. Laughter and humor are inexorably tied to vulnerability, but when explaining them, it is easier to employ a term we use as its measure: status.