Three days before Donald J. Trump becomes president again, Roy Wood Jr., a crafty progressive-leaning comic, has released a special, “Lonely Flowers,” that begins with this...
Conan O’Brien may have left late night behind for podcasting, world travel and — soon — Oscar hosting, but his sketch work and man-on-the-street comedy aren’t...
The music producer David Mansfield flew down to Austin in May 2023 to record with Kinky Friedman, the satirical country singer, mystery novelist and twice-failed candidate...
Annoyed moviegoers may be making incorrect assumptions about why others in the theater are laughing. Some audience members might be chuckling because something onscreen is funny...
In my reading of your career, around 2010, a real change happens. You started doing fewer of the big, broad comedies and instead made films like...
‘Grandiloquent’ Through Feb. 8 at Lucille Lortel Theater, 121 Christopher Street, Manhattan; lortel.org. Wordplay can be fun, funny, even punny. But Gary Gulman takes it to...
Nikki Glaser did not win a Golden Globe herself on Sunday night. “I’m first-time Golden Globe loser, Nikki Glaser,” she said after losing the award for...
When I started following Nikki Glaser in early December as she began putting together her Golden Globes monologue, she planned a joke that never made it...
Even given this post-#MeToo climate, it’s doubtful so many of these films would be made were the culture not rethinking what menopause means and can look...
Charles Shyer, who co-wrote and directed a long string of hit comedies, including “Private Benjamin,” “Baby Boom” and “Father of the Bride” — many of which...
