Conan O’Brien is not a cynic — at least not when it comes to the Oscars, which he is hosting for the first time on Sunday....
Inside a spacious room on Manhattan’s West Side, rehearsal for the latest Broadway revival of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross” was full of macho bluster and...
In the 1990s, as her career was on the rise, a 20-something Posey told an interviewer that she was working on a screenplay. She was interested,...
In his debut special, Ian Karmel, a veteran comic and writer for late night and award shows, turns his worst joke into one of his best...
“My name is Jean, and my comical best friend started referring to me using that phrase. We laughed each time she said it. Now, many years...
Troy Hawke is known to be quick-witted and kind. A man of manners. A connoisseur of charm. A hero for the social-media age. His superpower? Creating...
After a half-century of comedy and music (and what at times felt like an equal amount of buildup and hype), how do you at last kick...
I happened to be there that night, when then-candidate Trump got the most laughs in one sketch by gamely dancing to Drake’s “Hotline Bling,” a precursor...
Wallace and Gromit is something of an institution in the entertainment world. Since its introduction more than 35 years ago, the stop-motion series has won three...
Tom Robbins, whose cosmically comic novels about gargantuan-thumbed hitchhikers, stoned secret agents and mystic stockbrokers caught hold of millions of readers in the 1970s counterculture, died...
