A new global ranking has named the world’s funniest countries. But Brits shouldn’t get too cocky. We might be a nation of dry ...

Sarcasm does have a way of driving the point home. After three days of intense discussions and debates--featuring stalwarts like Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Farms and Majora Carter, founder of ...

Sarcasm so saturates 21st-century America that according to one study of a database of telephone conversations, 23 percent of the time that the phrase “yeah, right” was used, it was uttered ...

Sarcasm, at times, can have its rightful place: A comedian on a stage is meant to be ironic. Sarcasm is their stock-in-trade. We know what we are getting. We pay for their irony. It is distanced. Fun.

2.Sarcasm is also a way of asking for what you want when you are scared to ask for it directly. You might crack a joke about your wife’s crazy shoes because you don’t know how to just say you ...

Although sarcasm is the most common from of verbal irony and is widely used to convey thinly disguised disapproval, contempt and scorn, little or no research has been carried out on its effects ...

In 2018, my Australian co-worker asked me, “Hey, how are you going?”. My response – “I am taking a bus” – was met with a smirk. I had recently moved to Australia. Despite studying English for more ...