Humor U is one of the three comedy clubs on the Brigham Young University campus, best known for its student run stand‑up comedy.

How many author-professors does it take to screw up a piquant literary tradition? Several generations, it seems. Seventy years ago, in March 1934, a national magazine titled College Humor -- yes, a ...

Sometimes, Rhett Sewell introduces himself as Rhett with Tourette. "My name," the 20-year-old University of Tennessee at Chattanooga freshman, said, "was a lovely stroke of irony. Why not use it in a ...

Researchers have found that students appreciate when instructors tell jokes in science class, but that female and male students differ in what topics they find funny or offensive. There's nothing like ...

Remember the “noogie?” If you lived during the 1970s, you do. The noogie was popularized on “Saturday Night Live” by ultra-nerds Todd DiLaMuca and Lisa Lupner, played by Bill Murray and Gilda Radner.

Last fall, at the start of their junior year, Teagan Nam experienced a scary situation at school. There was an anonymous tip that a student at Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Md., had brought ...