Humor has a large role to play when it comes to engaging students in a classroom environment. By facilitating student laughter with appropriate jokes, quips, and visual humor, a teacher can make the ...

Sometimes adding a comedic element to marketing campaigns works well in all languages. Sometimes it doesn’t. Human emotions are universal, and neuroscience has shown us that brain patterns are too.

In my last post, I introduced the subject of formal humor, which, by my definition, requires some foresight and planning, whether it be hours, days, months, or years. I touched on the most “primitive” ...

Over his decades-long career as a late-night comedy TV writer, Joe Toplyn has crafted jokes for the likes of David Letterman and Jay Leno. He has instructed adult-level courses on comedy writing and ...