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 ...

Daniel Dennett makes a good point in his TED talk, Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny, when he argues our sense of humor must accomplish important evolutionary objectives. Why else would we find things funny ...

As described in the August cover story “The Nutty Professor,” Boulder professor Peter McGraw is hard at work trying to crack the humor code. He and his team at the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) have ...

Authors Peter McGraw and Joel Warner delved into the science of what makes things funny in their new book, "The Humor Code." Your jokes may have your friends rolling in laughter, but could you take ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Author and humorist, Peter McGraw, chats ...