Join Josh and Johnny for a lively British English lesson in this entertaining episode of British Men (영국남자들). From unique ...

I rarely bother browsing the humor sections of American bookstores even though I love funny books. With a few exceptions -- Christopher Buckley, Bill Bryson, Carl Hiaasen -- American humorists tend to ...

Different approaches to satire do not translate well across national borders, nor often does the subject matter. But if ever there were a case to be made for the universality of satire itself, allow ...

THE woman who is managing the only English periodical printed in Moscow to-day told me that American humor was responsible for what trouble she had with the censor. To the Russian, exaggeration in ...

Chef Todd English had a sense of humor about his party-boy image behind the scenes of a new ad shot for private jet service Bladeone. The toque, who created menus for the flights between New York and ...

"Which word is funnier: porridge or oatmeal?" This is the question one of us recently posed to the other.* Clearly, the notion was insane. Surely finding something funny requires context — a ...

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