or why humans need to figure out what comedy is or why things are funny, and that’s why we have books. There’s never been a better long-form tool for exploring complex ideas than these ...

Raunchy, tender, hilarious: The comedian Youngmi Mayer's debut book, "I'm Laughing Because I ... She does standup comedy gigs and hosts comedy nights in her homebase of New York; her TikToks ...

This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on the ancient geocentric cosmos and Christian eschatology—and its toads are Dante’s ...

In her new book Falling in Love at the Movies, entertainment journalist Esther Zuckerman takes readers through the history of romantic comedies. A beloved genre, having built a reliable audience ...