Hope helps us believe tomorrow can be different. Humour helps us through today. Making room for both is not avoiding the hard ...

The author faced Hodgkin disease, breast cancer, and lung cancer, emphasizing hope and humor as key survival tools. Humor, especially through jokes, provided relief and a positive outlook during ...

Trevor Noah returns to the stage with his latest Netflix special, Joy in the Trenches, delivering exactly what the title suggests: humor in an increasingly uncertain world. Whether it’s the chaos of ...

The first time I read best-selling author Jenny Lawson, I was on a New York City subway, laughing so hard at her debut, Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir, that people started ...

In 2007, cartoonist Kate Beaton, pictured on the right in a self-portrait, launched her webcomic "Hark! A Vagrant," which features spoofs on historical and literary characters. Courtesy of Kate Beaton ...

When I was wrestling with a debilitating, life-threatening medical drama, I found myself doing something a bit unorthodox: I made a lot of jokes. Not the canned, “a guy walks into a bar” type of jokes ...

Some people can tell a joke. Others can turn an ordinary conversation into a laugh-until-you-can't-breathe experience. In astrology, a handful of zodiac signs seem to possess a natural gift for ...

Men rate visual jokes more highly than women do, whereas women prefer jokes that involve political commentary or the dynamics of close relationships, a new study of print cartoons dating from ...