Hollywood has a problem with comedy sequels: It can’t seem to stop making them. Last week Warner Bros. announced that “The Hangover Part III” would hit theaters on May 2...

While I’m as excited as anyone for the return of “Mad Men” Sunday on AMC, I’m not sure I’m ready for Jon Hamm to start playing serious again. In the nearly 18 months...

“Community’s” finest trait may also be its biggest fault: a lack of consistency. “The show is so awkwardly ambitious because it never trusts itself to stick with somet...

Merriam-Webster defines silly as “exhibiting or indicative of a lack of common sense or sound judgment,” which basically implies that silly is stupid. Silliness may come f...

Two months ago, Todd Glass’ life changed. A stand-up comic since he was in high school, Glass, 47, has a résumé any comedian would envy. He tours regularly as a headliner,...

Last week, the A.V. Club ran an essay that asked, “Are we nearing comedy podcast overload?” In it, writer Steve Heisler argues that, “for the good of comedy, people need...

Last week I made a pilgrimage to a comedy mecca: the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles. Over the last decade, UCB has become the nation’s foremost breeding gro...

Amy Schumer didn’t have a special valentine this year, but the 30-year-old comedian couldn’t have cared less. “As a comic, you can really ignore all holidays — it’s ...

With so many high-profile comedians these days making their names playing themselves — Louis C.K. with “Louie,” Whitney Cummings with, well, “Whitney” — it's easy ...

When Louis C.K. said he’d grossed more than $1 million off his self-released, $5 stand-up special, “Live at the Beacon Theater,” the question wasn’t “Would others fo...

Watching “Key and Peele,” Comedy Central’s latest attempt to replicate the success of “Chappelle’s Show,” I couldn’t help but think about how long it’s been si...

When Wanda Sykes walked onto a D.C. stage in 1987 to do stand-up for the first time, she had never even set foot in a comedy club. Sykes, then 27, had just quit her day job at...

I never planned on visiting “Cougar Town.” When the series premiered in 2009, the idea of a sitcom about Courteney Cox chasing younger men had all the appeal of watching J...

Some of the best comedy comes in small packages. Whether it’s a “Saturday Night Live” skit or that joke you tell all your friends, humor is often most effective when kep...

John Mulaney could be the next breakout star of “Saturday Night Live.” The only problem: Most people who watch “SNL” don’t know who John Mulaney is. A writer for the...