You are, of course, familiar with the famous Abbott and Costello comedy sketch known as “Who’s On First?” It’s a famous bit ...

Comedy is often dismissed as lightweight entertainment, yet the genre has produced some of cinema’s most enduring masterpieces. Over the last century, the greatest comedy films have done far more than ...

Almost every night in bed, I channel surf looking for something to help me fall asleep. More often than not, I stop on a ...

Comedy sequels are notoriously difficult to execute, but 1964's A Shot in the Dark provides the perfect blueprint for how to get them right. After 1963's The Pink Panther, Blake Edwards teamed up with ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

How did comedians “getting real” become such a common trope in TV and movies? By Jason Zinoman Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A stand-up comic, tired of hiding behind jokes, jolts the ...

When it was released, it felt like the entire world stopped to watch Don’t Look Up, and for good reason. It spoke (and still speaks) directly to the reality we’re living in, with a level of satire ...

During a stolen hour in the spring of 1944, when Primo Levi had been a slave laborer at Auschwitz for about three months, a French prisoner asked Levi to teach him some Italian. Levi, a young chemist ...

The future of comedy is up in the air as all eyes turn to Jimmy Kimmel and his return to ABC. Affiliate owners Nexstar and Sinclair will preempt the return of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" on Tuesday, Sept. 23 ...

The reboots, remakes and revivals keep on pouring out of the television pipe, like effluent being pumped into a river: ...