“Humor” Articles

What can we joke about? How far is too far? Our answers tend to be personal, which makes it hard to discuss why some humor is offensive.

No matter his graphic language, depression-stoked benders, and religious satire, Father John Misty still orbits Christianity with a gravity he can’t escape.

If you don’t have any sort of hope beyond death, the absurdity of everything tends to hit you hard. And then you end up doing stupid stuff, like betting the family farm on a bunch of tulips.

Ultimately, the problem with VR was that it, like so much that happened in the nineties, put technology ahead of content.

Let’s give generously to the ones who need it and the ones who are helping. And maybe, I dunno, put that giant pack of Quilted Northern back on the rack.

Dahl wasn’t selling people rocks—not really—he was selling them a joke.

Chappelle’s best comedy holds, as it were, a fun-house mirror up to our nature.

We’re all beautiful, horrible people, and with both of these realities in mind we can ask, “What’s the joke?”

Erin and Hannah invite Ben Fort to the conversation to discuss the important and needful role of humor in our conversations.

Part of Hannah Gadsby’s subversive power consists in the fact she still manages to be hilarious even as she refuses to let us rest in the abridgments necessary to her former punchlines.

Having thus cheated death twice, you might think that Thecla would abandon Christianity in favor of staying alive, but of course you’d be wrong.

St. Lawrence was literally barbecued to death. And then the Catholic Church made him patron saint of chefs, presumably to rub it in.

A lot of dumb things have happened in Church history and in the Bible—and it’s through the dumb stuff that God is at work.

Since I’m not a historian, I’m going to tell you about the weird, possibly legendary, and super awkward stuff this guy did.

Weird Al Yankovic can show us all how poking fun doesn’t have to be so harmful, and not every joke about another human being creates an enemy.

How do men and women express humor? How do you over or under appreciate your own sense of humor?