Meanwhile, The Far Side was doing jokes about hangings and murder — death was a regular punchline. Along with that, Larson ...

A year ago, Lea’h Sampson felt like everything was crashing. Though she had been doing stand-up comedy for six years, she was hitting a wall. Her jokes weren’t getting her booked, even in local comedy ...

A weekly pickup basketball game in Manhattan is populated almost entirely by professional funny people from all corners of the comedy landscape — stand-up comedians on their way up, comics past their ...

Comics have been bringing joy to people for over a century, but how we read them is always changing. Whether it was the change from buying comics at newsstands to having a pull list at your local ...

Hawkeye has one of the most interesting origin stories out of all the Avengers, and the issue also has one of the most unique ...

More than 50 comics from around the country will be performing at the Funny is Female Comedy Festival at Comedy Plex in Oak ...

In 2024, as the film and television industry looked to repair after the year of double labor strikes, comedy continued to explode. Emerging in recent years as the leader in the field, Netflix got the ...

There’s a quote that is often used to describe comedy: “We must laugh to keep us from crying.” Napoleon Bonaparte first said it, but over time, the words evolved, but the meaning remained the same: ...

Up-and-coming Nashville comic Aaron Weber says we’re in the middle of a major comedy "boom" right now. Just ahead of the debut of his comedy special, "Signature Dish," the 32-year-old Alabama native ...

That was the New York Comic Con that was for 2026. I wasn't there; someone needs to have a word with the updated visa rules, ...

Comic books have long been perceived as a niche genre for fanboys or the geek stereotype, as depicted on CBS’s The Big Bang Theory. Yet, comic book shops and their owners rarely get their moment to ...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Jewish comedy is, of course, a long and vaunted tradition: Joan ...