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 ...

Recently, my 9-year-old son noticed that I was pouring cashew milk in my coffee. With a curious look, he asked, “Mom, how do you milk a cashew?” “With tiny fingers!” I replied. This evoked a burst of ...

A sense of humor is an attractive trait. There is abundant cross cultural evidence that shows that being funny makes you more desirable as a mate, especially if you are a man. But once the initial ...

Humor is observed in all cultures and at all ages. But only in recent decades has experimental psychology respected it as an essential, fundamental human behavior. Historically, psychologists framed ...