If only it were that easy! We all could use a bit of humor in our lives — especially when it comes to dieting. As it turns out, it's possible to find humor in between the calorie-counting, exercising ...

At the close of his 2016 election night telecast on Showtime, Stephen Colbert left the audience with an aphorism that, viewed from that November’s perch, offered a glimmer of hope. In the face of ...

It’s an article of faith in literary circles that the proper way to read the New Yorker is to start with the cartoons and then place the magazine atop a neat pile of older issues and wait for nuclear ...

From lobbyists gutting science bills to Congress not knowing the Earth is round, have a sigh and a chuckle at the punchlines in these entries in the Union of Concerned Scientists anti-science cartoon ...

As Professor Mary Beard informed us last week, the world’s oldest joke book, the Philogelos, has been around for thousands of years. And it’s even been online for a few years. But not until last week ...

To strike a note I generally avoid, I am offended. And by a cartoon. Has anybody noticed what a patronizing mess Seth MacFarlane’s new The Cleveland Show is? Cleveland is the pudgy, mild-mannered ...