When learning French, one of the hardest things to do is to understand jokes - which are often layered in cultural references or complicated wordplay. It's common for new arrivals in France - and ...

The proficiency movement and concomitant rise in interest in the use of print and broadcast media have provided language teachers with humor in a variety of forms-jokes, comic strips, cartoons, ...

The Palo Alto Players’ production of playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “The Revolutionists” deserves huge audiences because it’s both laugh-out-loud funny and starkly serious. The play manages to find ...

The French humor magazine, Charlie Hebdo, published cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Muhammad on Wednesday, an act that comes in the wake of violence fueled by the American made video depicting him in ...

‘But then how do you translate it?' ‘Well, I can't. We in France don't have a word for it.' This scene in the film “Ridicule”, by Patrice Leconte, shows a marquis at the court of Louis XVI in ...