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 ...

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 ...

The Office is advertised as a laugh-out-loud goofy comedy and it succeeds admirably. So say the Emmy awards, the television ratings and the zeitgeist. The show tracks garden-variety office workers led ...