Heard the one about the scientist trying to find the world's funniest joke? He's deadly serious - and psychologist Dr Richard Wiseman will spend the next year collecting thousands of gags in an ...

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But because some scientists decided that there wasn't quite enough sibling rivalry in the world, they did a study ... youngest children think they're the funny ones in the family, compared ...

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So now many are wringing their hands in great trepidation, expecting mass deportations, chaos in the White House as occurred ...

Others are funny because they feature more broad-based ... and mayhem set during the spookiest night of the year. In a just world, Michael Dougherty would currently be making his seventh or ...

The book Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche was a sensation in 1982. Today, the Trump campaign seems to be cribbing from it. Do they ...

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World-building is a big element in your comedy ... is always kind of to be funny. That’s gonna be the thread through the whole show. Yes, there’s songs that are not funny at all, but ...

Read our review of *Dr Strangelove*, adapted from Stanley Kubrick's film by Armando Iannucci and Sean Foley, now in ...

Tom Pyun's fast-paced 'Something Close to Nothing' uses everything from Meryl Streep to hip-hop dance to remind us that gay ...