One of the most popular beliefs regarding humor and laughter is that they are good for your health. There are many extraordinary claims regarding the health benefits associated with humor. Many people ...

A bit of history for you – knock knock jokes date all the way back to the 1900s and have roots in the United States of ...

Join us for a hilarious episode as Ollie's Dad returns to the channel for a side-splitting humor challenge! Watch him react ...

When is Natalie Portman's laughter not Natalie Portman's laughter? An Object Lesson. Aristotle called laughter an "ensouling mechanism," and the academic discipline of humor studies has built itself ...

The brutally honest preschooler who comes to visit your patient, the nursing meme someone posted on the coffee machine, a rumbling stomach during a blood pressure check: If you don't notice humor in ...

Humor has been a dynamic subject long studied and explored in all branches psychology. For example, developmental psychologists study how humor and laughter develop throughout our lifespan. Humor ...

Laughter is almost universal. It's an expression that is seen across all human cultures; babies begin to laugh within the first few months of life, and animals such as apes and even rats exhibit forms ...

This is part three of a four-part series reviewing the evidence on how humor influences physiological and psychological well-being. The first article included basic background information, definitions ...

Q: I have read that laughter and having a sense of humor may help us live longer. Any truth to this? Also when is a joke about aging funny and when is it insulting? What’s your take on this? Many ...

Trudy Runnels is a 44-year-old mother from Waxahachie, Texas. She has a rare form of metastatic breast cancer (triple- negative). It is not funny. Trudy is. On a recent afternoon, at Cancer Treatment ...

Listen to ASCO’s Journal of Clinical Oncology Art of Oncology article, "Humor Me” by Dr. Stacey Hubay, who is a Medical Oncologist at the Grand River Regional Cancer Center. The essay is followed by ...