Press
2011
Boston Globe Magazine – The science of laughter.
October 2, 2011
BBC Focus Magazine – The Science of Laughter.
August 2011
CJAD 800 AM – Interview at Just for Laughs Festival.
July 29, 2011
From the Desk of Bob Mankoff – Benign violations and distant mishaps.
July 13, 2011
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Return of the king (of cringe).
July 7, 2011
The Ron and Don Show – The Science of Comedy.
June 27, 2011
On the Media – Cracking the Caption Code.
June 24, 2011
Freakonomics Blog – Cracking the F&#%ing Humor Code.
June 14, 2011
Enid News – One nation, under God, and funnier than most.
June 11, 2011
From the Desk of Bob Mankoff – Cracking the Caption Code.
June 1, 2011
Wired Magazine – One professor’s attempt to explain every joke ever.
May 2011
Punchline Magazine – Professor answers the question: Why is gross-out humor so funny?
May 31, 2011
MSNBC – The science of the gross-out comedy.
May 26, 2011
The Q – What makes things funny.
May 18, 2011
Slate Browbeat – 5 Leading Theories for Why We Laugh—and the Jokes That Prove Them Wrong.
May 13, 2011
KFI AM 640 – In studio guest.
May 15, 2011
The Dominion Post – The joke is on those who devise theories to explain what’s funny.
May 5, 2011
Underwire – Cracking the Code of The New Yorker’s Cartoon Caption Contest.
May 16, 2011
Wired Storyboard: The Grand Unified Theory of Humor.
May 3, 2011
The Portland Mercury – Presenting a Grand Unified Theory of Humor.
May 3, 2011
Yahoo News – What really makes people laugh at jokes on April Fool’s Day?
April 14, 2011
Fox News – Heard the one about the college humor lab? Colorado has the punchline.
February 25, 2011
7NEws TheDenverChannel.com – CU Lab Studies Why Some Things Are Funny .
February 25, 2011
Daily Camera – CU-Boulder prof starts Web site collecting funny police reports.
February 24, 2011
Thrillist – Funny Police Reports; CU lab humor’s itself, you.
February 17, 2011
Princetion Alumni Weekly (PAW) – Anatomy of the funny bone.
January 19, 2011
2010
News.com.au – What makes us laugh?
August 29, 2010
Scientific American – Low-Level Moral Transgressions Make Us Laugh,
August 20, 2010
Association for Psychological Science – What Makes Things Funny?,
August 12, 2010
The Post Chronicle – Immoral Behavior Funny If Harmless,
August 12, 2010
MedIndia – Why Some Things Make Us Laugh?,
August 11, 2010
The Times of India – Scientists demystify why we laugh at crude jokes,
August 11, 2010
Wall Street Journal – Political Stooges, August 11, 2010
Live Science – Study Reveals Why We Laugh at Disgusting Jokes,
August 10, 2010
msnbc– Science explains the gross-out comedy, August 10, 2010
PsychCentral – New Theory on Humor, August 10, 2010
Science Daily – People think immoral behavior is funny – but only if it also seems benign,
The Beautiful Brain – Funny How?,
August 9, 2010
Boulder Daily Camera – TEDxBoulder: Speakers to bring diverse ideas to Chautauqua.
August 5, 2010