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 ...

Some of the most popular television shows of all time, including Friends, Seinfeld, and Saturday Night Live, have been comedies. Comedy, though, like any form of art, is subjective and has always been ...

Comedy sequels are notoriously difficult to execute, but 1964's A Shot in the Dark provides the perfect blueprint for how to get them right. After 1963's The Pink Panther, Blake Edwards teamed up with ...

While maybe not popularly identified with “freedom of speech” concerns, comedy clubs on Harvard’s campus are still beholden to concerns about what might be appropriate to say and what might cross the ...

Slapstick comedy is a purposefully exaggerated form of performance that can portray a cartoonish reality. In the world of slapstick, characters are constantly getting hurt, mugging their faces, ...

If you’re performing any form of comedy, you may play a role that seems, on the surface, not to have any jokes. In fact, all you do is talk about other people’s jokes. What gives? Well, you might just ...