What makes a joke funny? A professor and a journalist think they’ve uncovered the secrets of comedy, and they explain their findings in a new book The Humor Code: A Global Search For What Makes Things ...

Professor Peter McGraw and writer Joel Warner have teamed up to explore the science of humor on a global expedition. The Humor Code chronicles their adventures, scientific experiments and ...

This post is in response to Why Is Humor So Hard to Figure Out? By Nina Strohminger "Trying to define humor is one of the definitions of humor." So said Saul Steinberg, someone who wielded humor so ...

The same joke might be funny to one person, horrifying to another, and boring to yet another. So as part of the Humor Code project, Joel Warner and I looked at humor around the world. The Benign ...

‘The Humor Code’ and the Science of How Comedy WorksWriting about comedy has become a cottage industry in recent years as the swelling popularity of live and online humor has birthed a new […] ...