The 24th Ig Nobel prizes were announced on September 18. The prizes annually award scientific research that “first makes people laugh and then makes them think.”
Comedian Tim Vine has won the award for the funniest joke at this year’s Edinburgh festival Fringe with a one-liner about vacuum cleaners.
NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden may be stuck in Russia and facing allegations of treason back in the US, but that hasn’t stopped someone adding his profile to the dating app Tinder and looking for potential dates.
The BBC faces a new round of complaints about racial insensitivity over scenes filmed by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, just two weeks after Jeremy Clarkson was forced to apologise for his use of the n-word in a Top Gear out-take.
In the latest instalment of Billy Eichner’s ‘Billing on the Street’ segment for Funny of Die, which mostly involve the comedian shouting at unsuspecting people, New Yorkers were asked if they would sleep with Paul Rudd for $1.