Viv Sade, global humor winner in the 2026 Erma Bombeck Writing Competition, is a retired journalist and freelance writer from Churubusco, Indiana. She began writing humor at the age of 12, and while ...

NAIROBI: “What excuse do you have for coming home at six in the morning?” an angry Mrs Benda asks. “Breakfast ...” Bogi replies. If you were born before the computer, then you must know Bogi Benda and ...

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 ...

On the evening of April 17, the Wisconsin Book Festival held a public reading at the Madison Public Library. The event featured five distinguished fellows — Adams Adeosun, Jackie Chalghin, Audrey ...

(Photo: NBC) As a teenager, I would spend hours scrolling through Instagram, laughing at memes that somehow seemed to capture every feeling in just a few frames. Years later, as an aspiring sitcom ...

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 ...

With comedy, timing can often be everything—but it isn’t the only thing that makes a joke land. Slapstick, camp, and satire all have their place in the comedic landscape and require different skills ...