This video explores humor in the Middle Ages through a collection of jokes and riddles. Contrary to common assumptions, medieval comedy often included satire, wordplay, and crude humor. Many jokes ...

Medieval humor was crude, explicit, and unapologetically offensive by modern standards. Jokes about sex, bodily functions, marriage, and authority circulated openly in taverns, marketplaces, and even ...

Medieval imagery wasn’t meant to be funny when it was made hundreds of years ago, but all over Instagram it has been remixed, captioned, and somehow reads as peak hilarious — depending on your sense ...

These comedians had “the instinct to self-ironize, to use crude bodily humor, to use slapstick and situational comedy, and the willingness to make the audience the butt of the joke.” Yet if Wade’s new ...