The Justice Department is prosecuting a woman who laughed during a Senate hearing to confirm Jeff Sessions as attorney general. I can sympathize with her somewhat absurd plight, because I was once ...

A British sitcom has inspired the latest TikTok meme. If you've been on the app lately, you probably can't escape the sound of someone saying, "It's not funny at the end of the day, is it? It's ...

A dad discovered tape is the key to making his baby smile. Of all the toys in the toy box, one dad found that what really makes his baby boy laugh is a surprising household item: tape. Lance Marwood ...

Everyone likes a good belly laugh from time to time, and science supports that feeling.Studies have shown that laughing is linked to our physical, emotional and mental well-being — even our ...

The "mutual vulnerability theory" I have been promoting in this blog series defines laughter as a vocal affirmation of mutual vulnerability. In the previous posts, in order to account for the ...