Allie Brosh’s comics examine the mundane and the irrational – crazy dogs, the danger of a kid’s dinosaur costume, a shriveled kernel of corn that can break through deep depression. Brosh’s blog is so ...

The drawings are MS Paint-style doodles, and the stories are about everyday things like cake, poor spelling and dopey dogs. And yet each month, millions of people visit Hyperbole and a Half, the ...

Webcomic Hyperbole and a Half may not have been updated since 2011, but it’s still going strong. Without so much as a whisper from its main blog, Hyperbole’s upcoming book adaptation is already at No.

'Earth-shatteringly good' pizzas may not live up to their billing, but, linguistically, we'll never escape the cycle of exaggeration "Beyond unbelievable, will return" says a happy traveller of her ...

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. The United States today: it's Watergate, 9/11, the Civil War, the potato famine, and the cancellation of "Sex and the City" all rolled into one.

In 1835, Phineas Taylor Barnum was anxious to find an “amusement” to attract paying customers. One lucky day a stranger told Barnum that he possessed half-ownership of a “curiosity”: a woman named ...