As Professor Mary Beard informed us last week, the world’s oldest joke book, the Philogelos, has been around for thousands of years. And it’s even been online for a few years. But not until last week ...

When The New Yorker started its caption contest, in 2005, it quickly became the world’s most popular weekly cartoon caption contest. I don’t have any data to back this up, but back then, just having a ...

With their bright colors, out-there storylines, and fantastical characters, cartoons feel like an obvious TV choice for a kid. Which is why these cartoons that had some very adult jokes are unsettling ...

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Humor may not be expected on a chemotherapy floor. But for Jeri Davis, jokes became a way to cope. She was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2020 after some early symptoms she chalked up to ...