One study argued that the superior frontal gyrus was critical to the appreciation of the humor in a joke and that stimulating this region with direct electrical currents makes jokes seem funnier.

So all this variation in what we find funny has much less to ... the appreciation of the humour in a joke and that stimulating this region with direct electrical currents makes jokes seem funnier.

Needless to say, he stopped all dialogue with my husband because he got the biggest laugh of the whole evening. We like the magazine. Do you have a joke for Electric Avenue? E-mail your stories and ...

Put simply, getting an A.I. to understand humor and then to generate its own jokes turns out to be extraordinarily tough. How tough? Forget Go, Jeopardy!, chess, and any number of other impressive ...

Janda said she’s heard similar jokes from her parents ... Some members of Gen Z don’t like this kind of humor. Jimmy Thurston, an electrical engineer major at Utah Tech, said he finds it ...

Think of the most hilarious video you've ever seen on the internet. Why is it so funny? As a researcher who investigates some of the potential side effects of humor, I spend a fair bit of time ...

However, it struggled with sequences that didn't fit into learned patterns and couldn't tell when a joke wasn't funny. Instead, it would make up fictional yet plausible-sounding explanations.

People find corny jokes funnier when they are paired with laughter, a new study found. (Though, as you will see, “funny” is a relative term.) By Niraj Chokshi Humor, it has been said ...