The Florentine poet’s richly detailed vision of a journey through hell and beyond has inspired other writers and artists for ...

WASHINGTON — Comedian and host Conan O’Brien was named the newest recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for lifetime achievement in comedy on Thursday. O’Brien, 61, has carved out an improbable ...

As a sentient species, we have lived long enough to understand that life would be as dull as a dishwasher without humor and comedy. It can also be said to be the only aspect of life that separates us ...

As ever, the main event of the comedy year is the Edinburgh Fringe in August. But as it grows ever larger and more expensive, there’s a strong case to be made for avoiding it and instead trying ...

How one defines a comedy — is it punchlines? pratfalls? subtle satire? — has been just one of the issues bedeviling the award. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association began playing even more ...

One of the signs of a truly special comedy is when you need to watch it a second time to catch all the jokes you missed the first time around. And trust me when I say you’ll need to stream ...

Max (formerly HBO Max) has one of the richest and deepest catalogs of any of the streaming services, and so it naturally has the comedy you’re looking for tonight. From classic comedies starring ...

Dante Alighieri had what today would be called a "valuable biography". Besides being a poet, at various times he was a politician and a knight, a political scientist and a theologian, a theorist of ...

Dinesh Vijan’s Maddock Films has delivered the best news to their horror-comedy universe fans in the beginning of 2025. The makers announced eight films that are going to be a part of their ...

Which is why it feels more like a streaming comedy, one that makes its impact in volume not density. You need to mainline six in a row to get in the groove. Margaret Lyons is a television critic ...