9 Best Articles in 2022
Harvard Business Review
Sarcasm, Self-Deprecation, and Inside Jokes: A User’s Guide to Humor at Work
Harvard Business Review
~16 min read · · Some leaders use humor instinctively; many more could wield it purposefully. · Shared by 128, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Guy Kawasaki
The New York Times
The Strange Afterlife of George Carlin
The New York Times
~11 min read · · Nearly 14 years after his death, his provocative humor has been embraced by people across the political spectrum. What happens when comedy outlasts the era it was made for? · Shared by 125, including Felix M, Jeremy Faust MD MS (ER physician), Ernie Smith, Austin Kleon, Scott Monty, Kent Bye VoicesOfVR
Vulture
The 100 Jokes That Shaped Modern Comedy
Vulture
· From the Marx Brothers to The Simpsons, Richard Pryor to Amy Schumer: 100 bits, sketches, and one-liners that changed humor forever. · Shared by 184, including Tarik ESSAADI, Anthony Hamelle, Dominik Grolimund, Srushti, Cameron Yick, Graham Marshall, blinch, Matthias Sala, Daniel Lawniczak, Marc Zenger, grimm, adrianleb.eth, Kris Fannin
PsyPost.org
New study identifies which types of humor are linked to reduced worry and increased wellbeing
PsyPost.org
2 min read · · New research indicates that people who use humor to arouse sympathy for human imperfections or act silly to make others laugh tend to experience less pathological worry. But the findings, published in… · Shared by 46, including Eric W. Dolan
TED Talks
Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas: Why great leaders take humor seriously
TED Talks
· There's a mistaken belief in today's working world that leaders need to be serious all the time to be taken seriously. The research tells a different story. Based on the course they teach at… · Shared by 136, including Guy Kawasaki, Daniel Pink, Larry Brilliant 💛💙, Dorie Clark, Nir Eyal, BJ Fogg, Gretchen Rubin, Whitney Johnson, Scott Galloway
The New Yorker
Humor, Satire, and Cartoons—The New Yorker
The New Yorker
3 min read · · Humor from The New Yorker, including news satire by Andy Borowitz, funny cartoons and comics, Daily Shouts, and Shouts & Murmurs. · Shared by 45, including Tarik ESSAADI, Rebecca (Slatkin) Sloane, Margaret Sullivan, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Scott Shapiro, CyberCodeTwins.eth 👾// NINER FURY TANGO, Brian Stelter, Mathew Ingram, Steve Silberman, Taylor Lorenz
Vogue Magazine
The Best Podcasts of 2021
Vogue Magazine
7 min read · · From books to humor to wellness and everything between, these are Vogue’s favorite podcasts of the year. · Shared by 203, including Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Jean-Patrick, WBUR, Lydia Polgreen
The Pudding
Help a Computer Win the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
The Pudding
1 min read · · This is a weekly experiment to see if an artificial intelligence program can produce real humor. · Shared by 125, including Teresa Torres, Matt Daniels
The New Yorker
The Dark, Democratizing Power of the Social-Media Stock Market
The New Yorker
7 min read · · BitClout collapses everything—art, humor, personhood—into money, laying bare just who, and what, we are willing to pay for. · Shared by 119, including Christo Meid, Chris Messina, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Mark Little, Akshat, Lelio Simi, Aral Balkan
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themuseumofamericana.net
Our Lesser Icons—Humor by Chris Sumberg
themuseumofamericana.net
4 min read · · John “The Toddler” Doe. Despite hitting .563 across 17 seasons with the then-Akron Yankees, it’s unremarkable that “The Toddler,” batting between George Herman “The Babe” Ruth and Ted “The Kid” Wil… · Shared by 49
The New Yorker
The Secret to the Queen’s Success
The New Yorker
4 min read · · You don’t get through seventy years of best behavior, on the throne, without a sense of humor; indeed, it may be the one thing that keeps you going. · Shared by 68
Rolling Stone
'BoJack Horseman' Creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg Explains His Wacky List of TV's Best Shows
Rolling Stone
9 min read · · The Emmy-nominated showrunner brought his singular sense of humor to an extremely personal ballot for our list of the 100 greatest shows of all time. See what he voted for — and why · Shared by 68, including Alan Sepinwall
threepennyreview.com
Greenblatt, Invisibility
threepennyreview.com
2 min read · · In the 1590s, Elizabethan audiences—whose sense of humor was not as exquisitely refined as ours—laughed when, in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, the magician and his demonic sidekick Mephistopheles, having… · Shared by 56
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Comedy creators are bringing the power of a punchline to the climate fight
grist
9 min read · · Research shows that humor can help get climate messaging across. Activists and comedians alike are starting to take notice. · Shared by 152
PsyPost.org
Humor can protect against symptoms of anxiety and depression, study finds
PsyPost.org
2 min read · · The use of positive humor is associated with increased optimism and lower anxiety and depression, according to a study published in the International ... · Shared by 36, including Lee Keyes, Tarik ESSAADI, Eric W. Dolan
The New York Times
To Beat Trump, Mock Him
The New York Times
4 min read · · The lesson from pro-democracy fighters abroad: Humor deflates authoritarian rulers. · Shared by 78, including Amy Jo Kim, Joshua Benton, George Conway🌻, Geraldine, Gideonro, grimm, Scott Monty
The New York Times
Everything I Know About Parenting in a Crisis, I Learned From My Mom (Published 2020)
The New York Times
5 min read · · As we hunkered down during the Persian Gulf war, she kept our daily lives humming with routine and humor. · Shared by 126
CNET
No Joke: Google's AI Is Smart Enough to Understand Your Humor
CNET
4 min read · · Google's language algorithm can handle your dad jokes. Here's why that matters. · Shared by 144, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Timnit Gebru, Stefan Plattner
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· This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details. · Shared by 766, including TVMoJoe, Tim Harford, Dorothy Bishop, Kevin Mitchell, Austin Kleon, Carl Zimmer, SwiftOnSecurity, Cory Doctorow, Paul Graham, Phil Plait, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #SuiteWorld #UIPathForward, notsofast, Max Roser, Brad Feld, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, David Wallace-Wells, Will Critchlow, Charles Arthur, Carl T. Bergstrom, Jason Zweig
The New Yorker
The Best Jokes of 2020
The New Yorker
4 min read · · From Trump impressions to extinction comedy to Sacha Baron Cohen’s punking of Rudy Giuliani, the humor of 2020 managed to make light of a dark time. · Shared by 65, including Neil Lee, Liv 😷, Tarik ESSAADI
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· This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License. This means you're free to copy and share these comics (but not to sell them). More details. · Shared by 658, including Lynn Cherny, Kate Crawford, Robert Kosara, Helen De Cruz, M.J. Crockett, Mathew Ingram, Hannah Ritchie, Moritz Stefaner, Jennifer Ouellette, Cory Doctorow, Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦, Danielle! 🌩, Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), Brendan Nyhan, Kevin Marks, Liam Bright, Renee DiResta, Kevin J.S. Zollman, Andrew Dessler, Maarten Lambrechts
POLITICO
How To Make a President Funny
POLITICO
8 min read · · Obama’s comedy writer on the goal of presidential humor, Trump’s best zinger and the worst political jokester in history. · Shared by 61, including Tarik ESSAADI
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