Ready to throw your laptop out the window? Take a deep breath and read these hilarious computer jokes instead.

Can computers make things funny? We pitted a comedian against a robotic jokester to find out.

By Monday morning it was visibly raining inside the computer room! Pete got to dry out 200-odd disk packs, presumably still on an hourly rate. From all of this we learn several things.

Why do you find something funny? That's unique to each of us -- unless you're a computer, that is. Then you use a straightforward equation to help figure out when to chuckle.

Margalit Cutler humorously imagines the effects that computer functions such as autocorrect, copy-and-paste, and volume reduction could have in real life.

Matthew Thurber presents a humorous series of drawings about the activities that various people engage in on the Internet.

Inside jokes lurk on the icon for Apple’s TextEdit, for example (view the icon at the largest possible size). Or turn on the Mac’s Speech Recognition feature and say to your computer, “Tell ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh tried to create a computer that tells jokes. They created a sexist jerk instead.

Computer science reveals why this headline is not funny To uncover the secrets of humor, researchers crowdsourced the task of turning satirical sentences from The Onion into serious ones.

The band’s masterpiece of 20 years ago communicated panic with a strangely charming smirk.