What makes The Humor Code work is its wide-eyed approach to the subject. McGraw and Warner are beholden to no particular scene or set of performers, and their whistle-stop education in the world ...

For the past several decades, British sociologist and preeminent humor scholar Christie Davies has been collecting examples of an odd phenomenon: Nearly every culture has its own version of the ...

In the course of researching our book, we met with humorists all over the world—and in most cases, those humorists were male. In Los Angeles, the vast majority of the stand-up comedians we spoke ...

New World’s text chat has it so that it can accept HTML code outright. Now, this has led to some pretty funny instances. People have used HTML to begin linking oversized images into the global ...