"Boomer Humor" is a subset of humor that has become prevalent on social media, especially Facebook, in the past decade. Disobeyart / Getty Images It often involves minions, blurry pictures of old ...

With comedy, timing can often be everything—but it isn’t the only thing that makes a joke land. Slapstick, camp, and satire all have their place in the comedic landscape and require different skills ...

Why does humor often reference things emanating from the body, like runny noses, body odor, or waste products? A new theory of laughter provides the most complete explanation yet.

Professional comedy, which most of us consume in modest doses, is not how humor infuses our day-to-day lives. Nor are proper jokes, with feed lines and punch lines, the primary vehicle for laughter.