A few years ago, funny robots seemed like the stuff of sci-fi movies. Now some AI models are trying to get in on the joke.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Damon Young about That's How They Get You, his new humor anthology featuring essays by Black writers. What do you do if you hear from someone about a really difficult ...

Humor doesn’t just sell—it sells well, and that’s no joke. There are any number of stats to validate it. Research from Oracle indicates that 90% of consumers are more likely to recall a product or ...

Artificial intelligence programs are being trained to mimic human writing and speaking patterns. However, while some programs are improving, there are still some uniquely-human emotions that can't be ...

People joke about things that make them uncomfortable, but at what point do we need to process the reality of what is ...

In the past year, I’ve had the privilege of working with a leading scholar in humor studies. Dr. Jennalee Donian is an NIHSS postdoctoral research fellow at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa ...

More than most people realize, humor is a mixed bag. By now, its advantages have been well covered, and, though less so, academics investigating it have also identified its more problematic aspects.

Some Gen Zers have openly mocked millennial humor as being cringe and outdated. Meanwhile millennials have begun appealing to Reddit for help as they're baffled by the humor behind Gen Z memes. Gen Z ...

If you think your life is too boring to be funny, joke’s on you: Humor is all around us. Cultivating more humor in your everyday life is “one of the fastest and most powerful ways to increase overall ...

The staff book critics of The New York Times selected 22 of their favorite comic novels in English since “Catch-22.” What would top your list? By Dwight Garner Alexandra Jacobs and Jennifer Szalai A ...