People's experiences of humor vary, and humor serves many different functions in our daily lives. Sometime we use humor as a coping mechanism when things are not going well, and other times we enjoy a ...

I learned to be funny because my mother was chronically depressed. From infancy onward — through a mixture of survival instinct, emotional alchemy, and a craving for approval — my role was to ...

“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” reads the opening of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. The latter sentiment is contradicted by the Jerome family of Neil Simon ...