What makes a joke funny? A professor and a journalist think they’ve uncovered the secrets of comedy, and they explain their findings in a new book The Humor Code: A Global Search For What Makes Things ...

Daniel Dennett makes a good point in his TED talk, Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny, when he argues our sense of humor must accomplish important evolutionary objectives. Why else would we find things funny ...

As described in the August cover story “The Nutty Professor,” Boulder professor Peter McGraw is hard at work trying to crack the humor code. He and his team at the Humor Research Lab (HuRL) have ...

Authors Peter McGraw and Joel Warner delved into the science of what makes things funny in their new book, "The Humor Code." Your jokes may have your friends rolling in laughter, but could you take ...

Humor has been around for as long as there has been humanity -- and considering that chimps and other primates laugh, humor has likely been around even longer than that. In comparison, psychological ...

3. The Humor Code project included a worldwide journey to study comedy, which has since turned into a book, “The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny.” How did this idea come about?

The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. This month, they released The Humor Code: A Global Search For What Makes Things Funny, an engaging look at ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Author and humorist, Peter McGraw, chats ...