From funny retirement one-liners to quotes you can use in toasts to celebrate leaving the workforce, the right words can make a retiree laugh. Start or end a retirement toast with one of these short ...

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Poet J. K. Kennedy discusses balancing humor with anxiety and/or grief in poetry and shares five tricks she uses to illustrate her emotions without letting them turn into quicksand for the reader.

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Flip through the slideshow below for 18 of music's funniest tunes. From Shaggy's cheating anthem "It Wasn't Me" to Jeannie C. Riley's snarky "Harper Valley P.T.A.," these songs are packed with ...

The English-language translators of an Italian collection of short stories and a French book of poetry have won awards from the American Literary Translators Association. Jamie Richards' translation ...

Lindsay Lohan is bringing Christmas cheer once again in a new holiday film. On Friday, the trailer for Our Little Secret, a ...

The seven funniest books of the year have been announced – at least according to the judges of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.

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Dorothy Parker, the sharp-tongued wit of the Jazz Age, remains one of America’s most fascinating literary figures. In WIT & ...

A mum wrote an hilarious poem in memory of her son's hamster. Julian Junior, 20, lost Bonnet, his pet of two-and-a-half years, after he died of old age. Bonnet, named after Julian's similarly grey car ...