Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing political realities. By Adam Bradley LAST SPRING, DURING the Broadway revival of ...

An Israeli sketch writer talks about making comedy after the ouster of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, and how to handle humor around the country's serious topics. As Rachel Johnson just ...

Satire took that anger and reflected it back to the public through the distorting lens of comedy. That's why I've always regarded Lewis Carroll's Looking Glass as an essential comedy-writing metaphor.

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Starring director Bahman Ark as Bahram, the story centers on a mid-career filmmaker whose entire body of Turkish-Azeri-language work has never been screened in Iran. When his newest film is once again ...

Druski has built a career doing something that has become increasingly difficult in comedy: making people laugh while occasionally making them uncomfortable. His characters can exaggerate everything ...