At the start of his New Year’s Eve Late Night special, Seth Meyers launched into a long segment called “A Closer Look Back at 2016: The Year in Politics.” I could not have changed the channel faster.

The first joke that really made Una Lomax-Emrick ’23 laugh was “cockle-doodle-don’t.” At three years old, they “thought it was such a funny change of phrase.” Since childhood, Lomax-Emrick has been ...

More than a few festival-goers must have woken up in rough shape after last night’s long trip to the club with Abdellatif Kechiche, and to their credit, the Cannes Film Festival seems to have taken ...

Nikki Glaser’s comedic style of bullying is no longer what the public is craving, especially at award shows like the Golden Globes, which she hosted. (Neal Brennan/ Wikimedia Commons) As we enter the ...

The comedy landscape on YouTube Shorts has evolved dramatically in 2026, moving away from traditional joke structures toward highly engineered formats designed for maximum retention and rewatch loops.

A Comedy Sketch Show in Baltimore at The Irreverent Institute of Irrelevant Art. Getaway From Here is a fast-paced comedic sketch show where absurdity, wit, and the art of persuasion collide. As the ...

Though short on substance, Georges Feydeau’s frantic comedy, “A Flea in Her Ear,” which runs at the Trinity Repertory Company this month, entertains in an absurdist and innuendo-heavy exploration of ...

The unlikely yet potent partnership between comedy trailblazers, Stephanie Tejada and Jaclyn Passaro, has led to the creation of the groundbreaking sketch comedy show, “A Sociopath & a Psychopath.” ...

Next week comedian, actor, podcaster, cancer survivor and avid Instagram user Tom Green is coming back to the Spokane Comedy Club. Audiences will know Green from his 1990s MTV show “The Tom Green Show ...

The constantly adapting, yet evergreen, genre of comedy was spotlighted at the Variety FYC TV Fest on May 6. The creative ...

If enduring some large-scale difficulty like a war, occupation or pandemic, clinging too fervently to the wish that things were otherwise could potentially crush your spirit. It’s best to find ...