Humor

“You’ve got five minutes to wow me,” Ms. Biedermeyer said, leaning forward with her elbows on the glass table and her fingers steepled in front of her mouth. “Shoot.”

Trying …
Read More

Today’s comedians often set the jokes aside during their monologues.

We saw it over the weekend during Michelle Wolf’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner act. It’s more commonly seen on late …
Read More

Conservative comic Steve McGrew knows what it’s like to lose gigs because of his political views.

During the 1990s McGrew says a potential HBO stand-up special got nixed because of …
Read More

Los Angeles may be the showbiz capital of the world, but it never had a comedy festival of its own until a former Chicagoan made it happen.

Abbey Londer’s bold …
Read More

Impressively, she’s managed to keep growing in popularity since leaving the show.

She penned two New York Times best-sellers (“You’ll Never Blue Ball in This Town Again: One Woman’s Painfully …
Read More

“That was a good month run,” Di Domenico says of his reaction to the first of many Trump gaffes.

Instead, the Trump Train kept on rolling.

Suddenly, Di Domenico was …
Read More

Asay, a conservative editorial cartoonist, recalls reading the magazine while an impressionable teen.

“The satire is what caught my eye. They could get away with just about anything and make …
Read More

The show’s name, chosen by network executives at Comedy Central, was intended to be a place-holder until they could come up with a better title. That’s according to show co-creator Madeleine …
Read More

As one of the first correspondents on “The Daily Show,” performing that role throughout the Craig Kilborn years, he helped revolutionize how news and satire intersected.

Since leaving “The Daily …
Read More

He was one of the breakout performers on Fox’s “MADtv” during his eight-year run. Lee parlayed that show’s hit status into a thriving career as a nationally-touring standup comic and …
Read More