A new study from the University of Warwick suggests that the rhythm of human laughter has remained surprisingly consistent for at least 15 million years. By comparing the laughter of humans and other ...

This is a diary entry I scribbled down about the album "Applause" released by Straightener in 2020, based on thoughts I had ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 The men awkwardly looked around the room as the president went on a rant that was bizarre even by his lofty standards. Wealthy executives standing behind ...

No one, not even Jimmy Kimmel, has had much luck getting a chuckle out of Laughing Cow. A week after Bel Us, part of the Bel Group, revealed that the Laughing Cow mysteriously stopped laughing, the ...

The Laughing Cow has wiped the smile off its iconic mascot after more than a century, teasing a new campaign that asks consumers what could have made the famously cheerful cow stop laughing. The brand ...

The Laughing Cow is no longer laughing and shoppers want to know what wiped the iconic grin off her face. For the first time in more than 100 years, the laughing red cow has traded her trademark smile ...

There was that time I was struggling to carry a mattress over my head and walked into a wall. There was also a view of me trimming my nose hairs somehow captured as I was getting ready for work.

College football star Arch Manning apologized for giggling at an AI-generated video depicting an assault on a woman journalist. It was too little, too late. Perhaps the most devastating moment from ...

With a hat tip to OG NFL writer Peter King, and to Bill Simmons and the crew at Grantland and The Ringer, and to Zach Lowe, and to Eric Koreen, and to the legion of writers I’m ripping off with this ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., dismissed her and other socialist politicians' far-left rhetoric as a thing of the past, but conservative opposition was not persuaded. ABC's "This Week" host ...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Sunday quoted a New York City Council member in describing Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s (D) past positions, saying “Woke 1 was crazy.” ...

This blog has examined laughter and humor from a variety of perspectives, usually by taking a deep dive into specific examples. I’ve analyzed the work of various comedians and pranksters, ...