Stars attend the 23rd annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at The Kennedy Center on Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Washington, DC. The 2022 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor is being awarded to ...

I recently made what I thought was a snarky New York quip but I deeply offended the person I was joking about. That simply proves the point that you really have to know your audience and make sure ...

Everyone is on Twitter these days – and we mean everyone. From your grade school math teacher to your little cousin (who you swear is too young to be on there), folks from all backgrounds and places ...

Each month, many funny videos are posted to every corner of the internet — from Twitter and Instagram to Vimeo and sometimes other weird places we’ll have trouble embedding. Because you’re busy living ...

What even is a “comedy book”? It’s not a distinction used on signs hanging over a shelf in many (if any) bookstores, and it’s not a term publishers, editors, or critics use. It’s kind of an umbrella ...

A host of big names from the worlds of comedy and politics, including Dave Chappelle, Steve Carell, Jimmy Kimmel, Nancy Pelosi and Pete Buttigieg, turned out to honor the comedian at the Kennedy ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. It goes without saying that having a good sense of humor is a desirable quality ...

"Most notably, certain jokes work well for certain audiences."– Rosenbusch et al. (2022, p. 6) Humor is an underappreciated efflorescence of human intelligence and, at its best, a liberation from an ...