John Cassavetes, Laughing Last
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Studios never quite got the filmmaker John Cassavetes. Most critics hated him. A new DVD set proves them wrong all over again.
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If ever there was a smile that could be linked to the cat that swallowed the canary, it was the one on Paul Pierce [news]&#39;s face yesterday.
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Microsoft's chairman gives what is likely his last keynote address at CES. He measures humor with a serious look at the future.
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As the political establishment chuckles over his recent gaffes, the surging underdog candidate hopes to have the last laugh
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Latin American literary giant  Gabriel Garcia Marquez has won the last laugh on copyright  pirates by changing the ending of his latest book, the Nobel  laureate's first novel in 10 years.
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By Alistair Bell MEXICO CITY  - Latin American literary giantGabriel Garcia Marquez has unintentionally won the last laughon copyright pirates by changing the ending of his latest book,the Nobel laureate's first novel in 10 years.
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COLUMBUS - Dustin Fox was smiling, Bobby Carpenter was laughing and Ted Ginn Jr. was telling jokes. Funny how a win changes everything in the Horseshoe.
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It was Johnny Carson's last monologue and, predictably, it drew plenty of laughs.
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SILVER SPRING, Md.  - Have you heard the one about  the presidential candidate who told such great jokes the  American people elected him?
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ROME - Humor in the Bible? Scholars say the Old and New Testament are riddled with humorous references and aim to set the record straight at a three-day congress beginning Monday, "Laughter and Comedy in Ancient Christianity." There's the tale from Luke's Gospel of Zaccheus, a diminutive and despised tax collector who, eager to see Jesus at a busy gathering, is forced into the attention-grabbing indignity of scrambling up a tree.
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If you missed the ceremony to honor 80-year-old Lou Carnesecca on campus the other night and the announcement that St. John&#39;s was going to change the name of Alumni Hall to Carnesecca Arena, that was the feel-good part of this season.
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Popular humorist Dave Barry said Sunday's column for The Miami Herald was his last &#151; maybe. Barry, who has written humor columns for three decades, including 22 years at the Herald, says he's holding out the possibility of a return.
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Funnyman Jack Black has another reason to smile.
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âVince Vaughnâs Wild West Comedy Showâ imagines itself a contemporary equivalent of rootinâ- tootinâ traveling entertainments like Buffalo Billâs Wild West Show. Thatâs a tall comparison to draw.
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Hank Azaria comes face to face with his Monty Python idol, John Cleese
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Laughter may have originated in an ancestor common to humans and modern apes, a study suggests.
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Well, it's election time in the Republic of the Philippines, and that means the monkeys are rolling around in those political barrels, having as much fun as they can while laughing their heads off at the strange goings-on that characterize a democratic process loosely based on the American model  but that de facto looks more like a Fellini movie crossed with a Tom and Jerry cartoon - column includes a useful election-year glossary!