Jokes are funny because they tap into the brain mechanisms of neural representation, binding, coherence, and competition.

First-day-of-school jokes, one-liners, back to school puns, and knock knock jokes about teachers, learning, and certain ...

Humor researcher Marc Hye-Knudson wrote that dad jokes are often derided as dumb, but it's actually the opposite. Part of what makes them funny is simply that they're unfunny.