‘The Humor Code’ and the Science of How Comedy WorksWriting about comedy has become a cottage industry in recent years as the swelling popularity of live and online humor has birthed a new […] ...

Humor has been around for as long as there has been humanity -- and considering that chimps and other primates laugh, humor has likely been around even longer than that. In comparison, psychological ...

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 ...