In October 2005, Stephen Colbert invented a new word: truthiness. In a short monologue for The Colbert Report, a satirical show where the comedian played a caricature of a conservative blowhard cable ...

From the inception of television and the earliest variety shows to present-day sitcoms and stand-up specials, comedy has woven itself deeply into the fabric of American broadcasting. From slapstick to ...

In their race for fall viewership, the major networks have to pull out the big guns. They market new shows to death, hoping to make us want to help them increase their ratings. And these desperate ...

Let’s solve this women-in-comedy “problem” once and for all…with Twitter. A couple of weeks ago, the South by Southwest Festival got into hot water for booking only one female comic out of 31 ...