When regular memes no longer make you laugh, rest assured, there’s a whole wealth of esoteric and meta-comedy waiting for you ...

This idea is the basis for the popular genre of deadpan comedy. Deadpan, or dry humor, “uses a lack of emotion and facial ...

Deadpan is not so much a type of joke as a mode of delivery, a manner of address to an audience that often provokes nervous laughter. Comedian Nathan Fielder’s persona is marked by deadpan. In his hit ...

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has reached its conclusion and announced the amusing images of funny animals that have won its 2024 contest. Lauded as “the funniest and most popular ...

They can act inadvertently witty, comically clumsy, laughingly foolish or simply truly funny. But are they aware of it? Do wild animals have a sense of humor? Or are humans the only species to possess ...

The art world is frequently as grim as the news, sometimes worse, but “Funny Business: Photography and Humor,” an exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum, promises comic relief. The show was curated by ...

The funny business must be booming. When Greenpoint photographer Seth Olenick first envisioned making a photography book featuring his favorite funny people, he figured it would take about six months ...

Shelley Niro stands with her work at the booth of Toronto's Stephen Bulger Gallery at The Photography Show (all photos Daniela Mayer/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) What struck me first about ...

Because of chance employment as a waitress at Comedy Works, Crystal Allen found herself surrounded by comedians — and her husband, Ben Roy, even became one. An aspiring photographer, Allen used this ...

Legendary black-and-white photographer Elliott Erwitt passed away in his Manhattan home on November 29 at the age of 95. Fondly celebrated for his dry visual humor and ability to find a compelling ...

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