The ability to laugh at yourself can help you address the challenges that could be holding you back in your career and life, says Dr. Brian Kaplan. Laughter can be good medicine. According to the Mayo ...

The best medicine is laughter. The best way to achieve the medicine of laughter is through people. The people at this camp equal friends. Friends make the medicine that is laughter – even if it gets ...

Robin Williams was the first comedian to teach me the healing power of laughing at myself. (Los Angeles Times staff illustration; Getty Images) I interviewed Robin Williams on the set of his last show ...

James Pauley Jr. is a humor writer with a knack for storytelling, focusing on personal experiences that are both entertaining and heartwarming. His books, "Bumpy Rides and Soft Landings" and the ...

Next weekend is Mother's Day, which of course reminds me of my mother, Jackie Battley Gingrich, who died in 2013. So forgive me if I spend the next two weeks writing about her -- and why her views ...

LOS ANGELES — For Hollywood, the state of big-screen comedies has been so grim you almost have to laugh. There are genres that have dominated the cineplex in recent years — special effects-heavy ...

I interviewed Robin Williams on the set of his last show, “The Crazy Ones,” seven months before he took his own life in 2014. As an entertainment journalist, I’m rarely nervous meeting celebrities, ...