An elderly cousin called the other day. He’s worried about his memory; he forgets words and dinner plans. He no longer drives because he gets lost. So he went to the doctor. “I have great news,” he ...

An elderly cousin called the other day. He’s worried about his memory; he forgets words and dinner plans. He no longer drives because he gets lost. So he went to the doctor. “I have great news,” he ...

Sixty years ago, Time magazine condemned a new generation of stand-up comedians, calling their cynical brand of humor “sick.” The main offender gleefully titled his next comedy album “The Sick Humor ...

Jokes born of tragedy and/or current events (9/11, the Columbia space shuttle crash, the holocaust, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Rhode Island night club fire) are often tasteless, horrible - and funny.

Christina Applegate and Jimmy Kimmel also get a definitive -- and hilarious -- answer from Martin Short as to which of them he loves most. Christina Applegate pushed the Jimmy Kimmel LIve! audience a ...

Here comes a subversive super-antihero action movie that revels in explosive nihilism and crazy genre anarchy, constantly shifting narrative gears between an alien invasion thriller, a zombie-esque ...

I often can't predict how readers will respond any better than I can predict the outcome of football games. That proved true again this week. One reader is irate Tennessee took Southern California ...