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The article reports that mayor Bill de Blasio declared love for bagel on social media Twitter that fits political persona and mentions that de Blasio deleted the post and added corrected version of removed one.

The article reports that the U.S. President Donald Trump has hosted the U.S. White House's annual turkey pardon spectacle in the Rose Garden by sparing two plump fowls including Bread and Butter.

The article discusses the Punderdome homemade pun competition hosted by comedian Jo Firestone and his father Fred at Highline Ballroom in New York City on July 11, 2017.

The article focuses the System to Augment Non-Spearkers' Dialogue Using Puns (Stand) program engineered by a team of computer scientists in an effort to merge computational humor, which is a branch of artificial intelligence to model comedy using machines in Scotland.

Of all the manifestations of Linsanity -- the deployment of endless puns, the resolution of the MSG-Time Warner impasse that blacked out Jeremy Lin's games, the array of Lin jerseys on Spike Lee's person -- one of the most telling might have been the sight of a man laughing inside a pharmacy near San Antonio last week. Roger Montgomery, Lin's agent, was at the checkout counter when he noticed the cover of the March 5 issue of People magazine. In the top corner, to the left of the bride-to-be Elizabeth Smart and above the new homeowner Adele, was a photo of his client. The headline read: ''Jeremy Lin's Amazing Story.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IS America vampired out? The CW network hopes not. CW begins an ambitious campaign this week to promote a new series for the 2009-10 TV season, ''The Vampire Diaries.'' The campaign includes offbeat elements intended to attract attention, which include a blood drive, giveaways of mock products like ''fang floss'' and online games. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE inglorious pun! Dryden called it the ''lowest and most groveling kind of wit.'' To Ambrose Bierce it was a ''form of wit to which wise men stoop and fools aspire.'' Universal experience confirms the adage that puns don't make us laugh, but groan. It is said that Caligula ordered an actor to be roasted alive for a bad pun. (Some believe he was inclined to extremes.) Addison defined the pun as a ''conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense.'' ''Energizer Bunny Arrested! Charged with Battery.'' No laugh? Q.E.D. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on readers' response to some humorous situations faced by them. One reader says that he saw a boy who had poor knowledge of fractions and needed to be taught properly. Another reader shares his experience of watching a sheet of newspaper flying and dancing with the wind. One more reader expresses his amazement over a young lady who mistakenly captured a seat next to him in a train.

Comments on the twisted titles given to Broadway shows--`The Red Shoes' first became `The Red Snooze,' and then later `The Cement Shoes,' `Copperfield' became `Flopperfield,' and `Chess' became `Mess.' Several explanations.