If you’re paying close enough attention, you’ll easily recognize nervous laughter as incongruous to the situation—as mostly fake. And this despite the laugher’s actual intentions being largely ...

Why is it always the guy taking a hard and awkward spill that gets the biggest laugh? Don't think so? Check this video below. Hold your hand to your heart and say you din't laugh at even one of these ...

I remember horsing around once with my younger brothers in one of our bedrooms one Saturday morning when we were children. At one point, one of my brothers jumped off his bed, and as he flew up in the ...

So, why do we laugh? The argument goes—and I find this argument convincing—that laughter developed among early hominids as a signal used during group play to signal something that is surprising or ...

When I was little, I tended to fall into bouts of uncontrollable laughter. Basically, once I started laughing, I found it very difficult to stop. The problem was particularly acute in contexts where I ...

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 ...