So many men blossom when they become fathers—into wonderful, attentive parents, and also terrible, cringe-worthy joke-tellers. This phenomenon is well-documented (by me, in my head, every time a father I know makes an awful pun and then does Groucho Marx eyebrows). Does this describe someone you know, love, and maybe even call “Dad”? Or, does […]

I think many of us (long-suffering waitresses aside) will agree that dads can be pretty funny. And that humor, for better or for worse, is definitely absorbed by their young, impressionable kids. My own father has always appreciated a good pun, and at this point pun-lore is so ingrained in me that when the opportunity […]