Children with higher levels of general knowledge and verbal reasoning are better able to produce humor, new research carried out on Turkish schoolchildren suggests. The study also shows that the link ...

I like those really corny jokes and sayings that you find on little pieces of paper or small objects. For some reason, they are always there when you need them. The jokes are written like they are ...

Spoiler alert. This column runs the serious risk of not being politically correct. Just read or rip it up, but don’t send me emails telling me that I am an insensitive lout who doesn’t get it. It ...

Reading during times of strife — however you choose to define that — can serve two important functions: education and self-medication. Comedy books have always been a means to those ends, and 2021 ...

Young children's ability to laugh and make jokes has been mapped by age for the first time using data from a new study involving nearly 700 children from birth to 4 years of age, from around the world ...

The stupidity reached a-tok-alyptic levels. With TikTok overtaking Google as the most popular site in 2021, the Chinese video-sharing platform unsurprisingly spawned some ridiculous trends this year ...

The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards recently shared the best entries they have received thus far for the 2021 competition, which is accepting entries until June 30 Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor ...

Damon Young — whose 2019 memoir “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker” vaulted him to victory last Friday night, winning the 2020 Thurber Prize for American Humor — considers himself a professional ...

Senior copywriters Zoe Costello, left, with George, 4, a beagle mix and Will Storie, right, with Carl, 4, a pitbull lab mix, below, in a cubby at the BARK office. Stephen Yang When senior copywriter ...

It is about picking and choosing all that nurtures us. Are you having fun yet? Do you adore going through your hours? Seeing relatives? Working out? When I hear someone say thank G-d it’s Friday, I ...

We're on the eve of NFL training camp season, as the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers are set to open camp Wednesday. This means that teams and fans alike are laying plans for the 2021 regular ...