If I drew up a list of the most popular and productive newspaper writers of the last four decades, high on that list would be Dave Barry. He built an international reputation as a humorist, writing ...

The two of us blinked at each other. We had just swapped edits for chapter one of our latest coauthored book, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our ...

Excerpts from Frankie Muniz’s Autobiography That Make Me Think It Was […] I remember the day my mom got the call that I landed the part of Malcom in Malcom in the Middle. She was grinning from ear to ...

Long car drives are good for sweeping out the sticky cobwebs. Lottsa time to think. On my way back from the writing conference I recently attended in Dayton, I had 375 highway miles to review the ...

As a humor writer, I try to write about everything. It's basically all that I know how to do. RELATED: My Best Friend’s Death Wasn’t A “Blessing” — She Was Mentally Ill But the thing about writing ...

How am I qualified to advise anyone on how to write funny? Well, I’ve published three collections of humorous essays and another three compilations of whimsical light verse, so I feel I can speak with ...

People used to sit at their secretaries — the desks, not the personal assistants — dip their quills into little pots of ink and share, on paper, their innermost thoughts. (Innermost thoughts! Remember ...

When I finally get around to writing something, it will be intensely profound and dark and deep and will make people think, Wow, she gets it. But it will also be hysterical. When I finally write ...

If you're delivering a eulogy, "funny" may not be the first approach you'd think of. If the deceased was known for their sense of humor, or your family and friends are known for sharing jokes, then ...

Workshopping, an iterative process in which creators share ideas, test what works and refine what doesn't through collective ...