Speaking & Press

Events

If you’re interested in working with Pete and Joel, drop them a line.

The Humor Code at SXSW Interactive

• “Comedy Tech: How Funny Stuff Shapes Our Future,” SXSW Interactive 2013
• “Comedy: It’s Funny ‘Cause It’s True,” Chicago Ideas Week 2013
• “What Makes Things Funny,” TEDxBoulder 2010
• Authors@Wharton
• Boulder Startup Week
• The 2012 Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal
• “The Humor Code,” The 2012 Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Oregon
• “Humor Code Takes Over Gotham,” Gotham Comedy Club in New York
• “Comedy vs. Science: Cracking the Humor Code,” Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles

Television

• CBS This Morning: “What are You Laughing At? New Book Explores What We Find Funny”
  
• Last Call with Carson Daly
  
• Nightline: “Nurse Duped by ‘Queen’s’ Prank Call Found Dead”
  
• Fusion Live: “The Humor Code: What Makes Something Funny?”

Print

(John Leyba, The Denver Post)

• New York Times Sunday Review: “So These Professors Walk into a Comedy Club…”
• TIME: “Funny or Dreck”
• Bloomberg Businessweek: “11 Book Recommendations for the B-School Break”
• The Atlantic: “Does Getting Drunk Make You Funnier?”
• New Republic: “The Science behind a Laughter Epidemic and Other Ways that Humor Works”
• USA Today: “Which U.S. city is the funniest?”
• The Denver Post: “‘The Humor Code’ Takes Unlikely Colorado Pair around the World”
• Harvard Business Review: “Leading with Humor”
• Barron’s: “Here Comes April Fools’ Day: Beware of Pranks”
• The Boston Globe: “The Science of Laughter”
• The Wall Street Journal: “How About Never—Is Never Good for You? Celebrities Struggle to Write Winning Captions”
• Men’s Health: “Why Your Jokes Fall Flat”
• United Hemispheres Magazine: “A Taxonomy of Titters”
• Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine: “Laughing Matters”
• NewYorker.com:“A Quest to Understand What Makes Things funny”
• Atlantic.com: “The Dark Psychology of Being a Good Comedian”
• FastCompany.com: “This is why You’re Not Funny”
• FastCompany.com: “7 Brilliant Ways Authors Build Buzz that Anyone Can Use”
• Forbes.com: “Want to Crack the Humor Code?”
• Inc.com: “3 Reasons Your Marketing Didn’t Go Viral and What to Do About It”
• MensJournal.com: “6 Ways to Be More Universally Funny”
• Vice.com: “Too Soon: The Science Behind Your Regrettable Jokes”
• VillageVoice.com: “New York Only the Sixth Funniest City in the Country, But Still Funnier Than L.A.”
• 5280.com: “Meet the Author: Joel Warner”

Excerpts/Articles Written by Authors

(Brian Stauffer, Westword)

• Slate: “‘The Humor Code’ Series”
• Wired: “One Professor’s Attempt to Explain Every Joke Ever”
• The Washington Post: “Looking for Humor in the West Bank”
• The Washington Post: “Did You Hear the Joke About the CEO?”
• Wired.com: “It’s Comedian vs. Computer in a Battle for Humor Supremacy”
• Westword: “The Spies Left Behind”
• Westword: “The Nutty Professor”
• TIME.com: “April Fools Day Is No Joke”
• Haverford Magazine: “Searching for Laughs”
• PopularScience.com: “Deep In the Amazon With A Troupe of Medical Clowns” (Book excerpt)
• Salon: “Why Laughter Makes No Sense” (Book excerpt)

Radio/Podcast

WTF with Marc Maron

• WTF with Marc Maron podcast
• On the Media: “Robot Humor”
• NPR Weekend Edition: “Home Of Second City Comedy Ranks First In Humor”
• NPR Morning Edition: “Can an Algorithm Discover the Key to Laughter?”
• Live Wire! Radio: “Episode 251”
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s RN Drive: “Is there a Science to Humour?”
• WNYC’s The Leonard Lapote Show: “Searching the World for What Makes Things Funny”
• Colorado Public Radio’s Colorado Matters: “Discovering What Makes Us Laugh”
• KCRW’s Press Play with Madeleine Brand: “The Science of Humor”
• The Nerdist’s Kickin’ It Mary Lynn Style podcast: “Episode 3”
• The Nerdist’s The Mutant Season podcast: “Episode 126”
• Probably Science podcast: “Episode 98”
• Baltimore Public Radio’s Midday with Dan Rodricks: “What’s Funny?”
• Wisconsin Public Radio’s To the Best of Our Knowledge: “Hunting Down Humor”
• WICN Public Radio’s Inquiry: “Joel Warner-The Humor Code”