Books are influential. They have the power to make you cry, dream, escape reality and catapult you on new adventures. Books also have the magical ability to bring on smiles and laughs when they’re ...

Scholastic research shows that humor in books is the top characteristic kids look for when making their reading selections. According to the Scholastic Kids & Family Reading Report, more than 50 ...

Picking the funniest book you've ever read is just about as difficult as it gets for a reader. But that's exactly what we made PW staff members do, and the results are as varied as can be. Help us add ...

We may earn commission from links on this page, but we only recommend products we love. Promise. When we're in need of some laughs (and, I mean, who isn't these days?) we all love a good standup ...

I am concerned about how my book club scheduled for next Thursday at the time of this writing is going to go. Given that I’ve been telling people what to read for better than a decade in these pages, ...

Chris Duffy is a comedian, but he'd reached a point in his life where he'd nearly forgotten the joy of laughter. CHRIS DUFFY: I was teaching at a school, and I was dealing with a lot of really tough ...

Along with — and probably because of — an increasingly world-weary world, comedy, and the way that we consume it, has matured. I’m loath to use the word seriously, but comedy has reached a level of ...

The humorist is usually a passing fancy with the public. His brand of wit catches the popular eye, holds it for a space, then is forgotten, as a new humorist comes along with a new method of twisting ...

Jason Travis Ott has built a social-media fanbase by catering to logophiles. “Grandiloquent Words” draws together some of his favorite examples of exotic names for mundane objects and phenomena, which ...