"Which word is funnier: porridge or oatmeal?" This is the question one of us recently posed to the other.* Clearly, the notion was insane. Surely finding something funny requires context — a ...

Humor is a fundamental component of games. It's a great way to grab your players' attention and keep them hooked. Whether your game has a generally humorous narrative or just boasts a few puns in ...

Scientists and philosophers have long sought to understand humor. Charles Darwin likened it to a "tickling of the mind," and Thomas Hobbes described it as a feeling of "sudden glory." Theories about ...

Don't laugh, but professor Chris Westbury's newest psychology study is about farts. It's also about snots, chortles, wienies, heinies and bozos; things that are wriggly, jiggly, flappy and slaphappy; ...

Currently a features writer at Collider, Elisa Guimarães is an arts and entertainment journalist and a critic with over a decade of experience. Passionate about movies and TV shows as a whole, she ...

There may never have been a U.S. president who has more thoroughly encouraged public mockery than Donald Trump. It is not just that he is woefully unprepared for the job, that he doesn’t seem to be ...