Aristotle Wrote About Comedy in His Poetics

Charley Douglass built a machine of recorded laughs known as the laff box to add audience reaction to TV shows.

The character first appeared in 1914 and became one of the most recognized figures in film.

Ancient medicine believed that four bodily fluids, or humors, shaped a person's temperament.

A Sumerian proverb from around 1900 BCE is considered the earliest known joke.