Many have come to view McSweeney’s Internet Tendency as one of the preeminent places to view humor writing on a daily basis. Covering everything from smug babies to bids for pope, the site cultivates ...

You can't force funny writing. It helps to look for the absurdities in everyday life, make fun of yourself and, like the best comedians, learn how to set up the punch line. When we recently polled our ...

If I drew up a list of the most popular and productive newspaper writers of the last four decades, high on that list would be Dave Barry. He built an international reputation as a humorist, writing ...

With the rise of women like Amy Schumer, Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, Leslie Jones, and Kirsten Wiig, we’re seeing women in comedy shining in the spotlight and fighting the lame stereotype that women ...

Excerpts from Frankie Muniz’s Autobiography That Make Me Think It Was […] I remember the day my mom got the call that I landed the part of Malcom in Malcom in the Middle. She was grinning from ear to ...

The University of Dayton's Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop recently announced a new humor writing competition, "Nickie's Prize for Humor Writing," focused on the theme of "sisters." >> RELATED: 5 ...

How am I qualified to advise anyone on how to write funny? Well, I’ve published three collections of humorous essays and another three compilations of whimsical light verse, so I feel I can speak with ...

Louise Erdrich’s 15th novel, “LaRose,” entwines such weighty themes as war, family, adoption, death, grief, the Indian Child Welfare Act, reservation boarding schools, Indian culture and myth, and ...

As a humor writer, I try to write about everything. It's basically all that I know how to do. RELATED: My Best Friend’s Death Wasn’t A “Blessing” — She Was Mentally Ill But the thing about writing ...

The two of us blinked at each other. We had just swapped edits for chapter one of our latest coauthored book, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our ...