“Cesar Milan says that when a dog sniffs you she’s gathering information. My dog is preparing an extensive dossier on me,” wrote Paula Poundstone.
Humor is a way to get information about each other.
How we evoke and respond to it says so much about how comfortable we are with ourselves and how flexible, open and fun [...]

Last year VW launched “The Fun Theory” contest for best ideas to evoke better behavior in us. My favorite experiment, with more than a million views,  is “Piano Stairs.”
Does turning a set of subway stairs into a real-life piano encourage people to use them? Yes, 66% more.
My second favorite :  Does making a trash can sound [...]

Humor requires a target. If you make a bulls-eye out of someone weaker, particularly if you initiate the attack, you look like a bully.  Take aim, instead, at the powerful. Or, rather than getting upset, consider yourself lucky when someone makes you a target first.
Because, as Isaac Asimov observed, “For a humane person, the put-down is [...]

Yes, relationships seem dangerous or at least irritating at times.  And our choices often appear murky. Want a surprisingly quick and satisfying exercise for making wiser decisions next time? Try it by opening to any page in the witty new book by Dr. Mardy Grothe, I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like.  (Relationship Is Like a Shark is one of his [...]

Share your own lyrics. Make them up right now at your computer.  It’s simple.  Honest.

Ask Humphrey or Gina to sing them for you. (They’re rather eccentric yet fun.) Then make your friends laugh, smile  … (or cry?) when they receive your singing telegram. Go ahead.  It’s free at kakomessenger.
 Sitting all by yourself in front of your computer too long?  Here’s another musical [...]

• “Bank fees are like financial wedgies.”• “One of the founding fathers of rock and roll has left the building he helped construct.”• “Eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables.”Guess which of those colorful one-liners you’re most likely to remember – and repeat to others?

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What animal was voted the funniest? See answer below.
“A rather distracted mother was walking with her precocious son past the lion enclosure at the zoo when he suddenly asked: ‘Mum, how do lions make love?’ Without thinking she replied: ‘I don’t know darling, most of your father’s friends are in Rotary.’” It is easier [...]

“Go slow to go fast” I remind myself (too late) as did this other Scandanavian. See what’s already made a half million people laugh. Then see my favorite second, third and fourth “go slow to go fast lessons” from around the world, right here at tbs’s very funny ads. Sometimes one can’t [...]