In these harsh days of the pandemic and other calamities, it's a tough job being an "intellectual who uses humor, or wit, in writing or public speaking," J.P. Devine writes. When She was teaching, one ...

Host Melissa Block talks to writer Dave Barry about his unpleasant airport experience under the new security system that examines passengers electronically. He was singled out for a pat-down after ...

But once upon a time there was a website that was churning out powerhouse comedy writers by the dozen. In May of 2000, Harvard Lampoon alums Michael Colton and John Aboud launched Modern Humorist, a ...

The look on the face of humorist David Sedaris is as serious as a tax return. "I don't have a clue," he is saying. "I genuinely do not have a clue." The subject at hand is the stupefying popularity of ...

Humor writer Barry has been churning out comedy for more than 25 years, authoring hundreds of columns and more than 30 books. He won a Pulitzer prize in 1988 (which, for us, is what finally ...

A fictional standup confronts his limits in this intriguing time capsule of 1980s Soviet history It’s 1984: the USSR is on the verge of collapse, and so is Boris Arkadiev (Aleksey Agranovich), a ...

Jeanne Robertson received some good-natured ribbing from other humorists about a recent broken femur that caused her to reschedule 26 concerts. “Everyone in the speaking world said that I’d do ...