To clear matters up for your well-meaning parents, here are a couple of things that sketch comedy isn’t: It’s not standup, which involves only one person telling jokes presentationally before an ...

While in college pursuing higher learning, students are given opportunities to prepare for the professional world. In class, they discover how to program computers, direct movies and interpret an ...

(AP) — Have you ever watched a holiday rom-com on Hallmark Channel or Lifetime — or any of the other many networks and streamers that now air them — and thought, “I could write that”? It's harder than ...

The name David Zucker should immediately strike a laugh. He's one of the people behind Airplane, Naked Gun, and many other comedy movies that have defined the genre. When Zucker gives advice on how to ...

Robin Thede does a lot of things: She’s a writer, she’s an actress, she’s a show creator. One thing she doesn’t do? Boring straight men. During the panel “Robin Thede Tells Us How to Write Comedy ...

It takes a village to write an Emmy-quality episode. The 2025 field for Best Comedy Writing includes a whopping 19 writers, spanning six shows. Only one of the nominated episodes was penned by a ...

What inspired you to develop a book from the “Comedy Bang! Bang!” universe? I hadn’t really thought about it, but our editor Samantha Weiner reached out to us. She really had a vision for it. I get ...

The cartoon of Jerry Seinfeld is that he is the comedian who goes on “about nothing.” The nihilist of the Upper West Side. And yet Seinfeld is, like Chris Rock and few others in comedy, as serious and ...

The Emmys have struggled to recognize achievement in stand-up comedy. It’s more than a little embarrassing to have categories for best commercial, best game show, and “Outstanding Short Form ...