Such books were all about asserting judgment. A little bit of nostalgia plays in too. How could it not? Comedy shapes us in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A carefully curated and thorough canon of 119 titles that will keep any fan of comedy occupied and happy for a good long while. Photo-Illustration: Vulture A carefully curated and thorough canon of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

One of the cultural ideas dominating social discourse in recent years is that of cancel culture. This refers to the idea that people are having their freedom of expression curtailed and risk being ...