Franken has decided that funny would get in the way of the serious reasons he bothered getting elected in the first place. It's not an attitude shared by his colleagues, who are only amateurs at ...

Where the line is between funny and inappropriate is a serious study for Peter McGraw, and we explore that and more in this episode of the Brainwaves podcast. When McGraw isn’t teaching MBA students, ...

Serious literature is better when it’s funny. Good Gossip, by Jacqueline Carey. This collection of interconnected short stories is set in late-1980s Manhattan, a done-to-death milieu that Carey ...