Games & Humor

We have three questions for Bridgers about bridges that have fallen over, collapsed or otherwise done a bad job of spanning things.

Explore alien worlds, Nordic forests, and European countrysides in these point-and-click games — which may not have been designed specifically for kids, but will definitely keep them entertained.

Doonesbury was the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize for tackling social issues, politics and war. It all began as an irreverent strip in the Yale Daily News when Trudeau was a junior.

Krakowski — who starred in the hit TV series Ally McBeal, 30 Rock and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — is now hosting the newly rebooted game show Name That Tune.

Comedian Bowen Yang talks about his work as a cast member on the latest season of Saturday Night Live. Then he plays a game about imaginary video game/TV crossovers.

From Funny or Die's Call & Response Baron Vaughn and Open Mike Eagle suss out if something is a defunct startup, a video game world, or an esteemed contemporary dance company.

Comedian Baron Vaughn and musician Open Mike Eagle compete in a music parody game about slow prom songs changed to be about things you learned in high school.

Ophira Eisenberg and Jonathan Coulton dip into the Fact Bag and ponder which genre of music yields the most delicious cheese. Is it rock, ambient, classical, techno, or hip-hop? But it's all gouda.

Actors Mayim Bialik and Cheyenne Jackson determine if there was such a thing as a "Radio Hat" in a game of real or fake inventions from nearly a century ago.

From the Fox sitcom Call Me Kat, actors Mayim Bialik and Cheyenne Jackson compete in an audio game about vintage toy commercials.

Everyone who's ever played a video game knows Super Mario Brothers — but did you know Nintendo's iconic goofy plumber also taught typing, dealt gin rummy and even helped program sewing machines?

Video games can offer immense, immersive open worlds — but for some players, the small-scale grinding repetition of the games known as "roguelikes" is a better way to pass the time.