Humor Health Project

Humor in marginalized communities: how humor has been used as a survival tool among BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and immigrant communities.

There is an old saying, sometimes attributed to anonymous wisdom and sometimes to the collective inheritance of Black American culture:

In 2018, Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby stood on stage in a Netflix special called Nanette and did something comedians are

Confucius reportedly said, “A man has to be serious to be respected.” Two and a half millennia later, researchers at

Here is a number that should alarm anyone who manages people for a living: around the age of twenty-three, human

Hannah Gadsby, the Australian comedian who took the world by storm with Nanette, describes being autistic as feeling like “the

“Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all

Your heart pounds. Your palms sweat. Your mind races through catastrophic scenarios. You’re about to give a presentation, or meet

We are, at our core, social creatures. The longing for connection runs deep in our evolutionary history, and loneliness—that ache

Most advice about humor focuses on appreciating it when it shows up—watch a funny movie, spend time with people who

Here’s a question that rarely gets asked: Is it better to watch a comedy special or to write your own