History often feels distant until someone flips it upside down with a perfectly timed meme. Suddenly, ancient battles, famous ...

For 15 years, Can You Handle It? Tours (CYHIT) has been redefining the walking tour experience across Europe. Founded by Brooklyn-born Kai Angelet, the company combines history, humor, and interactive ...

Trying to be funny is like driving a car. Everybody does it, and we don't think about how dangerous it is until something goes wrong. Bad humor doesn't end lives, but it can kill your chances of ...

Throughout history, people have been poking fun at the past. From ancient battles to the more modern conflicts, they’ve somehow found a way to add a dose of humor to the darkest of times. Dark humor ...

Avinoam Patt warns students at the outset that his class on Jewish humor may be entertaining, but it won’t always be funny. Jokes are seldom humorous when you try to explain them, Patt acknowledged, ...

It’s good to remember that Great Britain was in great peril in May 1940 amid its war with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. The mood in Parliament was that a British defeat appeared to be quite possible, ...

The Nigerian American artist is debuting rosary tapestries at Art Basel Hong Kong this month. The works examine the disappearance of historical memory. By Ginanne Brownell LONDON — Victor Ehikhamenor ...

How do you market a book that combines serious history, irreverent humor, and cartoons? That was the challenge facing author-cartoonist Stan Mack (creator of the legendary Village Voice comic strip ...

Well, good old George never rocked sunglasses like that. And he quite emphatically did not look like Gregg Baker Jr., the actor who’s playing him (really in name only) in “The Foreplay: An Exploration ...

Humor, that subtle art of wit, is often brandished as a social privilege. Yet, when it becomes anchored in sexist clichés, it becomes anything but harmless. Because behind the joke, there is sometimes ...

Author Christopher Moore enjoys visiting Petaluma almost as much as he likes writing books about murder, sex and monsters. The bestselling comedy-horror writer lives in San Francisco, but has a second ...

Democrats must acquire a more balanced sense of history, humility about their public policy goals, and a sense of humor about human life if they are serious about winning elections again. That is just ...