There's no recipe for sketch comedy. There might be a few shared ingredients. Take characters contending with contemporary credos or circumstances, plop in an unexpected, even outrageous element like ...

1. Not very long ago, the history of humor, comedy and laughter was an underexplored area, a topic that academic authorities considered unfit for serious research. Happily, things have changed. A good ...

Comedy is one of the oldest genres in the history of cinema. Since before the medium started to gain traction as a legitimate storytelling device, let alone as an art form, directors were already ...

The authors of “Comedy Book” and “Outrageous” argue that culture-war worries about what’s a laughing matter have been overplayed. By Rich Juzwiak Rich Juzwiak has written about pop culture for Time, ...

MONTH SHOWS THE IMPACT OF THE DC COMEDY SCENE AND WHAT IT HAS HAD ON THE BUSINESS AS A WHOLE. AND JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING. BLESS YOU. BY THE WAY, MORE ON THE MECCA OF COMEDY IS DIRECTOR AND ...

Keegan-Michael Key is a modern master of sketch comedy, starring in hits shows “Mad TV,” “Key and Peele” and “Schmigadoon!” Now, he and his wife, film and TV producer Elle Key, have taken a long look ...