“The gods are fond of a joke”, said Socrates in the dialogue Cratylus. The God of…
Louis CK deconstructs his own joke
In his 2013 HBO special Oh My God, the comic Louis CK describes an encounter with…
The computer as the butt of jokes
Published in 1975, David Rovick’s As Man Becomes Machine is a fascinating snapshop of attitudes to…
Alan Turing on whether computers can have a sense of humour
In his 1950 article ‘Computing Machinery and Intelligence’, published in Mind, Alan Turing speculates on the…