There's a reason comedians call it "dying on stage." Research by a Washington State University linguist found that people who tell bad jokes often endure an astonishing outpouring of hostility from ...

Comedy typically doesn’t age well. Jokes that were shocking in their time seem tame to future generations, and edgy satire removed from the context of current events can appear toothless, even ...

Dana Carvey in the documentary Too Funny to Fail. (Photo: Hulu) Yahoo Entertainment: This documentary is so fun to watch because everyone who worked on The Dana Carvey Show is so honest and remembered ...

This feast of tidbits for comedy nerds is a look at the cult classic sketch show guided by Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell and Carvey himself. Enough time has passed since the preemptive demise of “The ...

There's a reason comedians call it "dying on stage." Research by a Washington State University linguist found that people who tell bad jokes often endure an astonishing outpouring of hostility from ...

Humor is such an important source of happiness and well-being that you’d think its definition would generally be agreed upon. In fact, this has not been case. Even laughter and humor researchers tend ...