In almost every TV comedy special, there’s a telling cutaway that the director felt obliged to insert. It shows spectators in the theatre rented for the occasion—usually a half row, half a dozen ...

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 ...

The authors of “Comedy Book” and “Outrageous” argue that culture-war worries about what’s a laughing matter have been overplayed. By Rich Juzwiak Rich Juzwiak has written about pop culture for Time, ...

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 ...

MONTH SHOWS THE IMPACT OF THE DC COMEDY SCENE AND WHAT IT HAS HAD ON THE BUSINESS AS A WHOLE. AND JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING. BLESS YOU. BY THE WAY, MORE ON THE MECCA OF COMEDY IS DIRECTOR AND ...

John Cleese, one of the founders of the comedy troupe Monty Python's Flying Circus, said he plans to write a history of stage, film and TV comedy, from silent screen classics to the workplace sitcom ...

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 ...

There's no recipe for sketch comedy. There might be a few shared ingredients. Take characters contending with contemporary credos or circumstances, plop in an unexpected, even outrageous element like ...