When new members were welcomed to an e-mail group called the Easy Rider Gag List, they were warned that they would soon be receiving a steady diet of tasteless humor. The warning came from the Easy ...

Photo illustration by Slate. Photo courtesy of CBS Photo Archive Most jokes have the same basic structure: a setup that establishes a premise, followed by a punch line, which upends that premise with ...

Ed Miliband may have lost the general election but he has come out on top in a list of Christmas cracker jokes for the festive season. A gag about the former Labour leader's political defeat, ...

The votes are in and this year's top jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe comedy festival have been decided upon. But one thing is noticeable by its absence: women. Despite shows from hundreds of ...

This post by Nickelodeon TV producing guru Dan Schneider (who also played Dennis on Head of the Class, which means that all his statements carry a certain authority) lists “‘comedy’ phrases that it’s ...