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 ...

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” ...

More than 500 students in 100-level language courses – including Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese and Spanish – learned how to understand humor in the language they are studying as part of ...

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 ...

Current issues are now on the Chicago Journals website. Read the latest issue.Current Anthropology is a transnational journal devoted to research on humankind, encompassing the full range of ...