I recently had the privilege of presenting a paper at the 2024 conference of the International Society of Humor Studies. It was during that meeting that I had the idea of interviewing leading experts ...

As a researcher who investigates some of the potential side effects of humor, I spend a fair bit of time verifying the funniness of the jokes, photos, and videos we present to participants in our ...

Professor Peter McGraw and writer Joel Warner talk to Co.Create about the academic and scientific research they conducted while writing their book, The Humor Code, all in service of determining why ...

Scott McCloud’s been making comics professionally since 1984, but a new book, The Sculptor, is his first full-length graphic novel. McCloud is best known as a theorist—he’s spent the better part of ...

Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a mathematical method of quantifying humor. Yes, we now have a way to predict when something will be funny. Or at least, we have taken the first ...

Researchers are taking the first steps towards of a quantum theory model of humor, to explain what really happens on the cognitive level in the moment when we 'get the joke.' Why was 6 afraid of 7?

Humor is a funny thing. We know it when we see it, but identifying why something is humorous is another thing entirely. In fact, explaining why a joke is funny is a pretty reliable way to sap it of ...

The pattern recognition theory of humor is an evolutionary and cognitive explanation of how and why any individual finds anything funny. Effectively it explains that humor occurs when the brain ...