Comedy isn’t “jokes.” And it isn’t “humor,” either. Well, it is, but it’s so many more things, too. Comedy is the word to describe that amorphous, precious, sacred moment of connection between two ...

Mainstream comedy is frankly in a bit of a lull right now. Sitcoms and theatrical comedy movie are disappearing, few comic novels are getting published, and comedy podcasts are just comedians ...

Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture — and the Magic That Makes It Work; By Jesse David Fox; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 368 pp., $29.00 Comedy Book takes the reader on a journey through comedic ...

A history of comedy’s last three decades of pop culture dominance argues that it is among the consequential American art forms. The New York location of the Laugh Factory, 2004. (Photo by Bryan Bedder ...

A history of comedy’s last three decades of pop culture dominance argues that it is among the consequential American art forms. As a woman who spent her 20s in often-dark, sometimes-damp basements ...