To clear matters up for your well-meaning parents, here are a couple of things that sketch comedy isn’t: It’s not standup, which involves only one person telling jokes presentationally before an ...

What inspired you to develop a book from the “Comedy Bang! Bang!” universe? I hadn’t really thought about it, but our editor Samantha Weiner reached out to us. She really had a vision for it. I get ...

The cartoon of Jerry Seinfeld is that he is the comedian who goes on “about nothing.” The nihilist of the Upper West Side. And yet Seinfeld is, like Chris Rock and few others in comedy, as serious and ...

The name David Zucker should immediately strike a laugh. He's one of the people behind Airplane, Naked Gun, and many other comedy movies that have defined the genre. When Zucker gives advice on how to ...