The Statesman is a very funny satire, but "funny peculiar" rather than "funny ha ha". A deliberately anachronistic production, that looks at the impact of controlled speech, and the inevitable ...

For Kat Timpf, comedy isn’t just her day job. It’s also helped her through the most challenging times in her life, from the unexpected death of her mother to serious personal health scares. And she ...

Emmy Award-winning comedian and East Williston native Carol Leifer cut her comedy teeth on Long Island. With her new book, "How to Write a Funny Speech … for a Wedding, Bar Mitzvah, Graduation & Every ...

On Nov. 24, 1964, the Illinois Supreme Court did what no other state high court had ever done — it vindicated Lenny Bruce’s free speech right to perform provocative routines in comedy clubs. But the ...

Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they’re maddeningly vague about how much dissent is possible in Saudi Arabia. By Jason Zinoman ...