Peter McGraw

Peter McGraw is a behavioral economist and business school professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he founded the Humor Research Lab (HuRL). He has spent more than fifteen years studying the antecedents and consequences of humor, and his work has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, the BBC, TIME, CNN, Wired, The Atlantic, and Harvard Business Review. He is the co-author of The Humor Code and the author of Shtick to Business, in which he translates lessons from the world's funniest people into practical strategies for building a career.