Ah, good old university days. A time of life where everything is a little bit chaotic, a little bit confusing, and a whole lot of fun. From staying up all night studying for exams to navigating the ...

Humor U is one of the three comedy clubs on the Brigham Young University campus, best known for its student run stand‑up comedy. The club meets every Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Maeser Building ...

BYU students are dealing with the COVID-19 quarantine by turning to humor, including social media and memes. Daniel Spencer, a communications studies major and member of the Provo's Most Eligible cast ...

Researchers have found that students appreciate when instructors tell jokes in science class, but that female and male students differ in what topics they find funny or offensive. There's nothing like ...

Every teacher has had that moment when you’re grading late at night, running on coffee fumes, when you suddenly burst out laughing at a student’s test answer that is so wildly wrong it deserves an A ...

Subject: Never run with nitroglycerin or a bucket of camel snot. Well, you could, but it would be your funeral. But seriously, using humorous subject lines just might be a way to engage students being ...

Early in my career, I taught a delightful class on the post–World War II American novel. Since we met once a week, and since these were graduate-level readers, the course consisted mostly of robust ...

But then I discovered a trick: I loved watching late-night parodies of the news like Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show, and I would repurpose their jokes to make her laugh. That motivated me to ...

Elizabeth Dunn is a Ph.D. student in Information Science at the University of North Texas. She works for Tarleton State University in Stephenville,Texas, in the College of Graduate Studies, and also ...

There's nothing like a good laugh to lighten a mood, especially when the atmosphere is serious -- like it can be in a science classroom. Using humor in the classroom has been shown to positively ...