Happiness and humor, which I teach through my “Laughter in Literature” course, are central to the human condition and crucial in a college curriculum.

Why do we suck the humor out of education? The most reasonable explanation is appropriateness. A lot of the humor we find in history and literature regards sex.

New teacher Jennifer Hobbs keeps a sense of humor to fight off new-school-year anxiety.

In all the years I worked on the top floor of One Herald Plaza, I never bumped into humor columnist Dave Barry. I never got invited up to the roof to fire potatoes into Biscayne Bay from his hair s ...

Are you like me, and think that higher education could benefit from a sense of humor? That we’re hearing lots of dystopian stories about how bad things are but little about what people ...

This article is an exploratory analysis of the use of humor as an essential communication tool. Consistently, the authors found information that upheld humor as a positive tool to be implemented in ...

Education Week participants laugh at stories Lawrence R. Flake tells during his lecture on the place of humor in the Church. (Hannah Miner) Jokes about funeral potatoes and funny sayings on ...

Humor: A lot can be said with a college education, or notTo wit, nothing that helped me land a useful, socially beneficial job, which is why I write a humor column. Education is supposed to be a ...

Church history and doctrine professor Lawrence R. Flake shares his 'Mormon humor collection' during Education Week on Wednesday, Aug. 18, discussing examples of humor throughout Church history and ...