A Wasabi Alarm? Astrology Charts for Bacteria? Scheduled Earthquakes? The Ig-Nobels are science for wise guys.
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Presidents are rarely known for their humor, at least not their intentional humor. JFK was.
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Our National Pastime thrived on legend until Jim Bouton toppled the pedestals. Was that Mickey Mantle pinch hitting with a hangover?
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Silent film was dead. Scandal tainted his career. His mother died. The Depression began. And Charlie Chaplin made “City Lights.”
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Four score and 12 years ago, a unique candidate ran a unique campaign. We miss Pat Paulsen for President.
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Long before Netflix and Comedy Central, standup started in a single spot — the Borscht Belt.
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Snoopy is a salesman now but for five wonderful years, he broke all the cartoon rules and changed American comics.
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A refrigerator note. A spark of genius. A classic poem and the senders it inspired.
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Owing team after team, Bill Veeck loved baseball and fans and fun. Not necessarily in that order.
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Baseball was a fading relic. Then a Chaplinesque college kid put on a chicken suit.
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"In America, there are two kinds of travel -- first class and travel with children."
-- Meet Robert Benchley.
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Inventive, clever, funny, cartoonist Rube Goldberg captured our love/hate affair with machines.
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They were Dizzy, Daffy, and Ducky. They clowned, brawled, and romped through the Great Depression.
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