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 ...

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, ...

NPR's Books We Love guide is available at NPR.org — it's an annual roundup of NPR staff and critics' favorite books of 2023. There are a number of funny books that made this year's list. NPR's Books ...

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 ...

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 ...