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 ...

Absurdism is all about chaos and, in fiction, is usually used to describe stories where wild, ridiculous, and unpredictable things happen. For hopefully obvious reasons, you often get absurd stuff ...

There really is no such thing as a dumb comedy. Making people laugh isn’t easy. There are tricks you can use, but no proven formula. The things we laugh at often reach us in a place beyond language, ...

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 ...

An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...

One of the best political satires ever made, Veep is a prime example of comedy centered on power. The show follows Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a vice president who, surrounded by blunders and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...