Writing about comedy has become a cottage industry in recent years as the swelling popularity of live and online humor has birthed a new audience for comedy journalism, whether it’s Jason Zinoman’s ...

I spoke with the psychology professor who co-wrote The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny on a laughter epidemic in Tanzania, how The Onion's editors produced their first ...

In the course of researching our book, we met with humorists all over the world—and in most cases, those humorists were male. In Los Angeles, the vast majority of the stand-up comedians we spoke to ...

Now this is funny. When Apple first released the Mighty Mouse last week, C.K. wondered if Apple had gotten the legal clearance to use the name, first made famous by the cartoon character, of course.