I recently had the privilege of presenting a paper at the 2024 conference of the International Society of Humor Studies. It was during that meeting that I had the idea of interviewing leading experts ...

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 ...

This book grew on me. I started out with the observation that classical humor theory, in which I have played a small but not insignificant role, was still relevant in analyzing the new humor on the ...

A millennial has caught ire from Gen Z as she shared a video theorizing on the generation's "referential humor." Brenna Pérez, 34, originally from Spain and now living in New York, is a filmmaker and ...