Writer-director Judd Apatow, co-director of the new documentary series “Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!” explores the risks ...

Comedian Jay Leno said during an interview that modern comedy can't compete with today's "outrageous" society, and argued that it was like "shooting fish in a barrel." ...

From established club comics primed to step into the limelight to those bursting onto the scene and leaving only laughter in ...

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Modern comedians don’t get much darker than Christopher Titus. The writer, actor, comedian who grew up with a murderous schizophrenic mother, abusive alcoholic father, and had a cheating, ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — If you ask most modern comedians who their comic inspirations are, you might hear some familiar names like Robin Williams, Chris Rock or Wanda Sykes. But for Carisa Hendrix, a ...

The 1960s marked a turning point in comedy, when performers began pushing beyond punchlines and embracing satire, social commentary, and more personal styles of humor. This era produced comedians who ...