It was one example of the many reasons people laugh - and most of them are not because somebody is being particularly funny. Laughter is primarily a form of bonding; we are 30 times more likely to ...

It's even harder to be funny and get paid for it. But the cartoon editor of The New Yorker, Bob Mankoff, has made a living making people laugh for decades. He says there are a lot of scientific ...

"Or even if they don't understand it, they find it funny and they're not judging ... talk about it - but it's more about making other people laugh because you want to make people feel the way ...