What is it that really makes us laugh? To find out, New Scientist visited Laughter Lab, an exhibition and social experiment at London’s Cartoon Museum. Showcasing a wide selection of cartoonists from ...

Gigglebug, a newly released iPad app from Finland, uses infectious laughter to encourage social play among children. Through touching and swiping the screen, players can tickle various 2D animated ...

When thinking about New Yorker cartoons, I don’t think the word “offensive” often comes to mind. Or at least to most minds. But offensiveness, like love, is in the eye of the beholder, and there are ...

“Over the Hedge” (DreamWorks): In a year loaded with cute little talking cartoon characters, this comedy featuring the voices of Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling and Steve Carell was one of the top hits.

So that’s where snowmen go in the summer! Here’s a funny cartoon about daily life! At least he didn’t follow the GPS directions into a pond. Calories don’t count at a barbecue, right? We love a good ...

Each week, The New Yorker's cartoon editor, Robert Mankoff, judges his fellow cartoonists from on high. He's in a - maybe he sits on a comically exaggerated high horse, it's hard to say - but no man ...

Nowadays, it's the small things that satisfy me. Like having one of those rare, "Ah-ha!" moments. Case in point: Remember when Seinfeld used to air on Fox at 9:30pm, following The Simpsons? There was ...