As Professor Mary Beard informed us last week, the world’s oldest joke book, the Philogelos ... “A fool broke wind in bed with a deaf person. When the latter caught the smell to complain ...

Today and back then, there were a lot of cartoons, like South Park and Family Guy, that purposefully pushed the limits with edgy and offensive humor. However, in the past, adult or problematic ...

she got wind of a new magazine being started—The New Yorker. It was a humor magazine from the beginning, and Harold Ross was looking to create a new type of cartoon—a more sophisticated and ...

The gang of inner-city kids appealed to a young audience, but as is often the case with cartoons, the writers and animators snuck in adult jokes from time to time. Most of those jokes probably ...