Some people seem naturally funny, always ready with a clever joke or a witty comment. Others struggle to land a punchline.

Telling a joke may seem simple,” said Gil Greengross, a lecturer in Aberystwyth’s Psychology Department and lead author of ...

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As part of his job as cartoon editor, Mankoff must evaluate the hundreds of cartoon submissions The New Yorker receives each week, so he needs to have a decent idea of what makes something funny.

Cartoonists across generations reflect on how gender, feminism and notions of womanhood have impacted their work.

Mankoff sees humor as "a coping mechanism," which helps explain why many New Yorker cartoons are "about the grim reaper or illness or marriages gone terribly bad.

Do funny people also enjoy humor more?I used to work at a company that had "gag writers" on staff, to create daily comic-strip jokes. These guys were very good at their work, but they were the ...

Do funny people also enjoy humor more?The authors used The New Yorker cartoon caption task where you are given a cartoon without a caption and are asked to write a funny caption to it. One hundred ...