One of the best things to come from the Trump administration is the endlessly funny political sketches being cranked out by the writing staff at Saturday Night Live. Thanks to the never-ending soap ...

In the US, comedy has long filled the space vacated by partisan news media. Now France is following its lead, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst ...

A close friend of mine recently confessed to having stopped watching cable news altogether because it was causing him and his wife anxiety and dread. They began watching Jimmy Kimmel instead, saying ...

Starring director Bahman Ark as Bahram, the story centers on a mid-career filmmaker whose entire body of Turkish-Azeri-language work has never been screened in Iran. When his newest film is once again ...

Comedy and music have long served as powerful mediums for addressing societal issues. Throughout history, these art forms have been used to critique and expose the flaws in political systems. Greek ...

Black American novelists, filmmakers and other writers are using comedy to reveal — and combat — our era’s disturbing political realities. By Adam Bradley LAST SPRING, DURING the Broadway revival of ...

Himesh Patel leads the comedy produced by Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes, set behind the scenes of a big-budget comic book adaptation. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic One of the things ...

The Netflix cult star plays a geeked-out loser, befriended by weatherman Paul Rudd, in a sketch-comedy conceit stretched out to feature length. But Robinson, who started out on “Saturday Night Live” ...

EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has acquired world sales rights for Iranian director Ali Asgari’s satire Divine Comedy, following a filmmaker’s mission to dodge censorship, ahead of its world premiere in Venice ...