It’s hard to imagine that there would have been snarky jokes and memes during the assassinations of John F. Kennedy or his brother Robert. Making light of the tragic event in Pennsylvania over the ...

Political humor can amuse, provoke or even spark outrage, as seen in Jimmy Kimmel’s recent suspension. CU Boulder Today spoke with Peter McGraw, director of the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) and a ...

WHAT'S SO FUNNY: Photograph by Ajaya Joshi of a rally at Khula Manch on page 1 of Nepali Times #295 (28 April-4 May 2006) showing the power of ridicule as resistance. The Soviets had just invaded ...

Alexander Rose, a senior correspondent for Canada’s National Post, takes a scholarly look at political humor over the ages. From rural Chinese peasants lampooning village leaders to scatological ...

A new study from the Media Research Center found that 81% of all political jokes told on major late night comedy shows in 2023 targeted conservatives. The media watchdog analyzed each of the 9,518 ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. Over the past decade, there’s one truth that liberals have been loath to admit: Donald Trump is funny. This aspect of ...

“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.” For over a decade, cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists have been testing this 17th-century aphorism from Molière (France’s Shakespeare) ...