The overall approach felt oddly inert, perhaps a sign of how confusing the world of political comedy has become. That’s in ...

Maron’s comments double as a demand that his fellow performers recognize the stakes of participating in this political moment. But the comedy world’s response to those stakes has run the gamut.

The Fort Smith Little Theatre presents “The Outsider,” a political comedy/satire, as the 2024 season draws close. “It pokes ...

The Trump era has coincided with the rise of the hourlong Netflix special and comedy podcast. And while the world of stand-up ...

Jay Leno laments not being able to joke about both political parties in contemporary comedy: 'You kind of have to pick a side.' ...

"People might expect it to be funny and just a constant political screed against one party," the network's senior political ...

The talk, sponsored by the Georgetown University Lecture Fund, a student-run group that invites speakers to campus, highlighted Fox’s blend of comedy and political commentary and how his experience as ...

Philosophers, going back to Plato and Aristotle, have observed a link between comedy and cruelty. In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes pegged laughter as the companion of scorn. He framed humor ...