Some jokester hacked into the Emergency Alert System in Montana and warned ... The world did not end, but it wasn't very funny either. It's sometimes self defeating to get lost in these hypotheticals.

The circus clown is a familiar figure for all of us. We’re supposed to laugh, but for more than a few, a clown is more scary than funny. Our Mo Rocca has given the subject some serious study ...

You may need to sleep with the lights on after reading these scary books. It is a truth universally acknowledged that zombies are pretty funny. Lily James stars in this send-up of Jane Austen ...

Yet it was also a year of scary warnings that whatever we were doing might constitute effing around, in someone’s eyes — and that it wasn’t going to end well. FAFO, funny and disturbing ...

For example: The jokes don't have to be about scary subjects — and, despite the pressure Marlotti puts on his children, they don't have to be funny or even told right. Kids are graded totally on ...

Maybe you think you've seen every scary mother-in-law fiction has to offer ... In a film that's part creepy and part very darkly funny, the two women square off for control of the house ...