Humour, as is often said, is highly subjective. So how can a jokey piece from a serious piece be distinguished?
"It's important to know if an author is being serious," said App World! editor, Mac Buck. "That way you know whether or not to laugh."...
Following its unlamented ending, sitcom favourite My Family will see its canned laughter machine sold off.
The machine, seen as one of the hardest working canned laughter machines working today, has recently been employed on Miranda and In with t...
HOLLYWOOD - Television executives are sweating bullets as they have learned that President Obama acting on the advice of his entertainment media advisor Oprah Winfrey has proposed a bill that the Tinsel Town moguls hate more than even having to put u...
A new report by top boffins says it's nonsense to suggest you can "laugh like a drain."
Sociologists and anthropologists from the University of Maidenhead have carried out a five-year study that took them around the world. In their report, publish...
Birmingham: A man was arrested today in Birmingham city centre for laughing in a public place. The man named Michael O'Flaherty (36) originally from Liverpool was seen by members of the public openly giggling and eventually laughing out loud while ta...
'If you smile the whole world smiles with you!' chimed Penny.
'That's good. Laughter does you good.'
'Well maybe not the whole world but a few. Terry anyway. I know Grandma could do with some cheering up. Shall we go and see her in Hospital?'
'Poor Barbara. She's had a slight stroke. We ought to visit her but Rupert's got the car so we'll have go by bus.'
'Ok. Where's Dad gone?'
'So...
Doctors at the Psychedelic Post-Premonition Research Center in Mill Valley, California have discovered that the some toes are loaded with previously unidentified microscopic nerve cells. The cells are called Samantha Micro Toe Cellules after the lab...
In a move designed to attract more viewers to a steady fan base, the CBS network has decided to remove the laugh track from their half-hour sitcoms.
"We feel the shows have a certain pious attitude about them," said Leslie Moonves, the preside...
ANAHEIM, CA - Recent research shows that laughter can produce the same health benefits as physical exercise. That euphoric finding was presented at the 2010 Experimental Biology conference in Anaheim.
The study by Loma Linda University, determine...
A long time and well respected writer for popular satirical website TheSpoof.com was left in tatters when an idea he proposed to the administrator was shot down in flames before it ever got off the ground.
Writer, IDManifold had proposed to site a...
Researchers for The Humor Institute of Bob Hoskins University have qualified and quantified the levels of laughter beyond the basic smile, giggle, or chuckle.
Their levels of increasing laughter are:
Laugh so hard that you get a runny nose
Laugh so hard that you snort
Laugh so hard that you gag
Laugh so hard that you fall out of your chair
Laugh so hard that you pee
Laugh so hard that y...
Scientists in England today today confirmed that apes and humans both have a common sense of humour, inherited from a common ancestor.
Firstly, researchers played idiotic, unintentionally funny soundbites made by American Presidents to 22 baboons...
DETROIT, MI - Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca, 84, nearly died in his home this morning while on the phone with Chryslur executives.
When Iacocca took the helm of Chryslur in 1978, it was a struggling company, bailed out by the federal government in 19...
A Boston MD has reported in the latest medical journals that excessive laughing will cause cancer in the small intestine and even the liver.
The medico, who refused to be identified lest people laugh at his findings (thus bringing on premature te...
John Hopkins University - Doctors here are basking in success today after breaking ground in the development of a radical new procedure for curing incurable non-stop laughter (INL).
Gladys Pip, a twenty-six year old New Jersey mother of two, was...