Caty Borum Chattoo may be a university-caliber professor in the American University Communications Department, but she can still appreciate a good 'ol pun. "Two strings walk into a bar," she said with ...

Marcus Wiley is showing off. "I've been doing a lot of traveling," he tells the crowd packed into the red-cushioned pews of a small church in southeast Houston. "Things are good. They got me in ...

Here's a screwball comedy setup that might have enticed Frank Capra or Ernst Lubitsch, master directors of the genre from Hollywood's golden era: The dying mother of an underachieving nebbish named ...

The comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great ...

Matthew Pittman, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, filmed a viral comedy skit reacting to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's engagement news In it, he jokingly canceled a ...

Jennifer Celotta, writer and director, and Ethan Thompson, media arts professor at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, discussed differing trends in television comedy as a part of the Film, ...

A former lawyer, a journalism professor and a stand-up comedian walk into a comedy club … That is not the set up for a joke but rather what Nancy Stanley, who is all three of those things, does ...

English professor turned comedian, Jose Alvarez started off by studying English with a creative writing emphasis during his undergrad years at CSUN. It was when he took a comedy writing course during ...

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Shakespeare is coming to the University of California, Santa Cruz. The upcoming February performances of Comedy of Errors at the Theater Arts eXperimental Theater embody comedy and heartfelt ...

The gig: Barnet Kellman is a professor of directing at USC’s Comedy program at the School of Cinematic Arts and a two-time Emmy Award winner. Kellman, 68, is part of a trio that launched the program ...

TORONTO — “It takes some doing to do Spock, or Jack Nicholson,” says Jack Black. He demonstrates the famous comi-quizzical arch of his eyebrow. “But once you’ve mastered the wave” — his brows ripple ...