Excerpts from Frankie Muniz’s Autobiography That Make Me Think It Was […] I remember the day my mom got the call that I landed the part of Malcom in Malcom in the Middle. She was grinning from ear to ...

Humor columnist Mark Harmon says the satirist Art Buchwald loved the Watergate scandal, because there was so much bizarre material that he could get his column done in an hour and be on the tennis ...

SHEBOYGAN - Humor writer Chris Brethwaite, well known for his work as a lead writer of the Maxine greeting cards, thinks we need all the humor we can get right now. “The country is facing a lot of ...

Students will write, workshop, and present five- to 10-minute comedic monologues inspired by their real-life experiences. Works and performances from funny people, including Mark Twain, Richard Pryor, ...

Sloane Crosley may be an accomplished writer, but she’s still humble. Crosley is the acclaimed author of essay collections I Was Told There’d Be Cake, How Did You Get This Number, today’s release Look ...

How am I qualified to advise anyone on how to write funny? Well, I’ve published three collections of humorous essays and another three compilations of whimsical light verse, so I feel I can speak with ...

The two of us blinked at each other. We had just swapped edits for chapter one of our latest coauthored book, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our ...

Tracy McArdle Brady has always been good at making people laugh. Her friends say she’s funny. Her blog followers say she’s funny. Fans of her first two novels say she’s funny. Nonetheless, the ...

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 ...

It’s a dream of many writers to spend time away from home in a quiet, all-expenses-paid retreat, free from their usual burdens. Most of these residencies are highly competitive. The ones below are not ...

Laughter also has social value: it promotes unity, gets at truths, allows us to broach tough subjects. Research has even shown that people who make us laugh are more influential and easier to forgive.