Finding Humor in Life

After looking at a series of upsetting photographs, research subjects who made amiable jokes about the images had more positive emotions afterward than those who laughed mockingly at the pictures.

Heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko was a little amused at seeing the motivational trick his challenger Mariusz Wach has been using to get himself psyched up for their fight.

Johnny Depp turns the one-dimensional Mad Hatter caricature into a nuanced, if orange-coiffed, paragon tormented by the effects of mercury poisoning.

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This poster makes it comically clear that a little comma can make a great big difference. Will we actually eat Grandma, or have a meal with her?

In Life Among the Savages, Shirley Jackson's humor is snappy and her children, though messy and obstreperous, seem never to inspire in her anything worse than a fond exasperation.

Conan O'Brien came out guns a-blazing, including a hilarious duet playing guitar with Jack White, a stunt he has ironically trashed in the past.

Once inflated, insert underneath a cushion. The victim upon taking a seat will force the air out the rubber flaps, which vibrate and make a vulgar blare.

Watermelons naturally assume the shape of the receptacle they are stored in. Unfortunately the novelty comes at double the cost of a normally shaped melon.

The cancer was found after she had a breast reduction. "I had real big boobs and got tired of knocking over stuff. Every time I eat … Oh lord. I’d carry a Tide stick everywhere I go," she quips.

“What’s Peeta’s approach? Or am I not allowed to ask?” I say. “Likable. He has a sort of self-deprecating humor naturally,” says Haymitch. “Whereas when you open your mouth, you come across more as sullen and hostile.”