The authors of “Comedy Book” and “Outrageous” argue that culture-war worries about what’s a laughing matter have been overplayed. By Rich Juzwiak Rich Juzwiak has written about pop ...

Jay Leno and NBC Studios are among those suing the author of a series of joke books. "We think there's a very important principle at stake: protecting intellectual property of the comedians," says ...

Book News: Jacqueline Woodson Addresses Lemony Snicket's Watermelon Joke : The Two-Way "His historical context, unlike my own, came from a place of ignorance," writes the National Book Award ...

In her debut poetry collection, GREAT EXODUS, GREAT WALL, GREAT PARTY (American Poetry Review, 86 pp., paper, $15), Chessy Normile is often funny — “All the books on time / are pretty good ...

This book offers what Seinfeld claims are the complete files of his lifetime pursuit of material to transform into bits. “Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - It sounds like the usual setup for a knock-knock joke: Who is the best-selling author on all of Amazon.com this holiday season? Rob Elliott. Rob Elliott who? Yet it's no ...