Gentle friends, if any such folks are reading, I wish to make it clear that during my 22+ years of writing this piece, I have avoided ever using “bad” words.

How I Met Your Mother is filled with running gags, but star Josh Radnor has a personal favorite that stands above them all.

“Barney & Friends” was a mainstay of daytime television in the early 1990s, making a star out of the title character: a purple anthropomorphic T. rex who extolled the virtues of love, kindness and ...

Barney Rice was the keeper of running jokes. Family jokes, mostly. He catalogued them by the thousands and could reference them within seconds when some occasion called for a hearty laugh at the ...