Colonel Muammar Gaddafi cuts a bizarre figure — and the revolutionaries have been quick to mock him in public, writes Jason Koutsoukis in Benghazi.

IT WAS dry humour and joke inundation at the Corner Hotel in Richmond last night, as some of Melbourne's best comics put on a benefit gig to raise money for the Queensland and Victorian flood victims.

THE touring West Indies cricketers may be a sad and forlorn lot after their disastrous start to this Australian series but if their captain, Chris Gayle, has any say in it at least they'll maintain their sense of humour. In a rare insight into the life of a globetrotting sportsman,..read more

I've been pondering the national inquiry into fat kids, booze-hounds and nicotine freaks - otherwise known as the Preventative Health Task Force. While waiting for my "butter pride" T-shirt to arrive, I started to wonder why politics has to be so humourless.

HAS Russell Crowe lost his sense of humour? Indeed, a few members of the rugby league community have been left wondering if he ever had one after the Oscar-winning actor unleashed his legal attack dogs over a fictitious and satirical book about a fake, fading, fat footy legend in which..read more