"Boomer Humor" is a subset of humor that has become prevalent on social media, especially Facebook, in the past decade. Disobeyart / Getty Images It often involves minions, blurry pictures of old ...

Some experts use violations of H. Paul Grice’s four maxims that help explain verbal humor. The mutual vulnerability theory of ...

This weekend’s humor roundups brought together curated viral tweets, popular memes, and accounts of unusual statements shared by readers. BuzzFeed highlighted amusing posts from social media, The ...

Numerous scholars and professionals, from both academic and artistic disciplines, specialize in the science and art of humor. They are psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, ...

A new study examining meme creation found that AI-generated meme captions on existing famous meme images scored higher on average for humor, creativity, and “shareability” than those made by people.

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 ...

Humor has long been seen as a “soft skill,” useful for easing awkward Zoom moments or sharing a laugh with colleagues. But CU Boulder researchers Tony Kong and Peter McGraw argue it’s far more than ...