Looking Back at the First Five Years of SNLAt this point in my look at the history and development of sketch comedy shows I would be amiss if I didn’t mention Monty Python’s Flying […] ...

In his speech in 2022 accepting the prestigious Mark Twain prize for comedy, Jon Stewart quipped that comedy was "the banana peel in the coal mine." "Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a ...

ASHEVILLE - Comedian Ritch Shydner brings his show, America’s Reflection in the Funhouse Mirror, A History of Stand-up Comedy, to Asheville in August. Shydner paints a funny and insightful multimedia ...

The Golden Globes have been honoring comedies since the 1950s and the days of such Billy Wilder gems as The Apartment and Some Like It Hot. But the category — which for the past 60 years has crowned a ...

Humor has been a form of resistance and a coping mechanism for Black Americans fighting against racial oppression since the days of forced bondage. Or, as the late great paragon of parrhesia Dick ...

The book will detail the long history and future for the art and craft of sketch comedy Keegan-Michael Key knows a thing or two about sketch comedy. The actor and Elle Key exclusively revealed to ...

Did you know that Bob Einstein’s iconic Super Dave Osborne character originally appeared on a Canadian sketch show called Bizarre? Or that before SNL, Mike Myers debuted Wayne’s World‘s Wayne Campbell ...

The American Masters Digital Archive includes over 1,000 hours of never-before-seen, raw interviews: a treasure trove of the movers and shakers of American culture, including Maya Angelou, Patti Smith ...

Lot 13 in Bayonne will be hosting a Valentine’s Day showcase, Lovers & Friends night, on Friday, Feb. 11, from 8 to 11 p.m. The night will feature performances by Tom X Rogan, Amaku Echo, Daeuno Bruno ...

Keegan-Michael Key is a modern master of sketch comedy, starring in hits shows “Mad TV,” “Key and Peele” and “Schmigadoon!” Now, he and his wife, film and TV producer Elle Key, have taken a long look ...