Dark comedy isn’t for everyone—kindergarten teachers, please jump over to the funniest jokes of all time —but when you’re having a bad day, forget those happy folks! Dark jokes have been proven to ...

I don’t mean funny in the sense of having other people laugh at your expense, accompanied by pointing, but rather intentionally funny. The question is not as straightforward as it might seem, for our ...

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It is jolted by every pebble on the road.”– Ward Beecher The ability to find humor during challenging situations reflects one aspect ...

Barbara Shermund’s single-panel cartoons, drawn with a seemingly off-the-cuff fluidity of line and expression, came to define the magazine’s sense of humor. Barbara Shermund, “Well, of course, I do ...

I’ve been studying humor as an academic for a couple of decades now. I’ve written a doctoral dissertation about it, published articles about it, given talks about it, and am an avid consumer of ...

I am probably the last person who should be reviewing anything Addams Family related. I am predisposed to like it. I learned to read in part with the collections — there were many — of Charles Addams ...