Elliot Kalan has been the head writer on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Mystery Science Theater 3000 reboot. Now ...

A joke about quantum physics might be comedy gold to a physics major but white noise to someone who hasn't thought about atoms since high school. An office in-joke will k**l it at the office but ...

“What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?” That’s the first line of a “joke.” Joking is a social interaction strategy that people use to do a variety of things. Sure, even Freud would say that ...

Here’s a case for the harmless, well-timed practical joke as a tiny intervention for social and emotional health—good for the target, good for the team, and (quietly) great for the joker. Why jokes ...