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 ...

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 ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

Big-screen comedy movies may not have the same presence at the box office that they used to, but 2025 has seen its fair share ...

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, ...

Bernie Mac Comedic GeniusCommentator Ralph Wiley says Bernie Mac is a prime example of comedy done right.

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 ...

Many new comedy shows provide audiences with the comic relief they are looking for, and a dose of relatability. By exploring complex relationships and moral dilemmas, and finding their individuality, ...

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 ...

Humor seems to naturally veer to the left politically. Satire has traditionally been about speaking truth to power or taking sacred institutions down a peg, and the powerful have historically been ...