First line of song: "Can you tame wild Wilmen? Can you tame wild Wilmen? You." First line of chorus: "When the circus came to town Jay Augustus Henpeck Brown bought himse[...]

The Comedy of Humors was developed near the close of the sixteenth century principally through the efforts of Ben Jonson and George Chapman. Although both men appear conc[...]

Are smarter people funnier? Recent work suggests that cognitive abilities are important to humor production—the ability to generate funny ideas on the spot. Using the Cat[...]

How do people come up with humorous ideas? In creative cognition research, exposure to good examples sometimes causes fixation (people get "stuck" on the examples) but ot[...]

The purpose of this study was to gain insight and understanding into the humor experience in collegiate sport. The specific purpose of this study was to determine the sty[...]

Humor is one of the most complicated and fascinating uses of human language. A growing body of research has looked at the relationship between the kinds of jokes people p[...]

This issue of Studies in American Humor, focusing on early and antebellum American humor, takes us deep into the archives to explore the complicated relationships between[...]

This article examines a group of Song-dynasty biji (miscellaneous jottings) anecdotes featuring the Northern Song literary giant Su Shi (style name Dongpo, 1037–1101) pla[...]

[English abstract] This article sheds new light on the Song literati perception of Buddhist identity through the jokes on Buddhist vegetarianism that are preserved in the[...]

Little Sister rediscovers the excitement, discomforts and the absurdity of growing up as a girl. There is one girl who dictates this story. She is the little sister, and [...]

One main area of focus in humor production research is exploring individual differences in humor production ability (i.e., the ability to produce something funny on the s[...]

Sassy subversions, knowing glances, and Black women's laughter is a qualitative study that examines the nuances of Black women's humor away from the comedic stage. Additi[...]

Within the Western tradition of narratives focused on representing demons, few artists have strayed from the hellish stereotype to introduce comic ones. Still fewer have [...]

We offer the first systematic quantitative meta-analysis on sex differences in humor production ability. We included studies where participants created humor output that [...]

The purpose of this study was to investigate teacher leaders' perceptions of the use of humor in the high school classroom. For the purposes of this qualitative research [...]

My work explores imaginative relationships between objects and their function. Using both kinetic and interactive elements I ask questions of the precarious relationship [...]

Satirical humor piece based on the premise that "Virginia Dare, the first English child born in North America, was among the first librarians in the American colonies, an[...]

In seven studies (n = 1133), adults tried to create funny ideas and then rated the funniness of their responses, which were also independently rated by judges. In contras[...]