Best standup bit John Mulaney’s “Horse in a hospital,” from “Kid Gorgeous at Radio City” on Netflix John Mulaney has the “best bit of Trump comedy, hands down,” says Adam McKay ...

Debates rage in comedy about whether or not "punching down" is OK. But what's missing is a discussion of punching up and speaking truth to power.

Porn and comedy have a lot in common, so why is it so hard to go from sex work to stand-up? Former adult film actress and director Sovereign Syre has tackled a new type of entertainment in ...

Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Billy Procida, the 33-year-old producer and host of “The Naked Comedy Show,” has been performing comedy sans clothing since he attended New York University.

Q&A Liberals Should Be Worried About the Conservative Comedy Scene The authors of a new book on right-leaning humor say conservatives, long dismissed by liberals as “not funny,” are making ...

In October 1983, the Friars Club, that bastion of American comedy royalty, held a roast of comic legend Sid Caesar. Some 2,000 men laughed appreciatively, and among them was not one single woman ...

Instead, this action comedy goes its own way with Colt Seavers (Gosling), a stuntman who is so burnt out on Hollywood that he leaves the industry and his girlfriend, Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt), behind.

Inside the World of Comedy The Weirdo Talk Show: “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney” understands what’s wrong with the genre. Still, it took time to hit on the ambitious free-for-all it ...

Paul W. Downs is a co-creator and co-star of the Emmy-nominated HBO Max series. "It's a comedy, but we also want to make a show that makes people think," he says.

Political comedy, back then, meant making fun of the heaving dinosaurs of the right. At the time, the consensus was that it was conservatives who weren’t funny.

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Comedy is one of the oldest and most important forms of entertainment, and even now, in a world of superheroes, action, scares, and the general concept of what "cinema" is, comedy is still important.