You can't force funny writing. It helps to look for the absurdities in everyday life, make fun of yourself and, like the best comedians, learn how to set up the punch line. When we recently polled our ...

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 ...

As marketers, we’re always looking for ways to connect with our audience and set our company or brand apart from the competition. There are plenty of ways to go about that, but one of the most ...

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 ...

As a humor writer, I try to write about everything. It's basically all that I know how to do. RELATED: My Best Friend’s Death Wasn’t A “Blessing” — She Was Mentally Ill But the thing about writing ...

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 ...

In what seems like a lifetime ago – maybe because it was – I was a humor writing machine. At the moment the U.S. Supreme Court announced the decision in Bush v. Gore, my friend and co-author Kevin ...

If you're delivering a eulogy, "funny" may not be the first approach you'd think of. If the deceased was known for their sense of humor, or your family and friends are known for sharing jokes, then ...

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The Year’s Best Humor WritingSave the occasional illustration, picture, or creative departure from form, print and web humorists are charged with making us laugh without […] ...

When I finally get around to writing something, it will be intensely profound and dark and deep and will make people think, Wow, she gets it. But it will also be hysterical. When I finally write ...