The name David Zucker should immediately strike a laugh. He's one of the people behind Airplane, Naked Gun, and many other comedy movies that have defined the genre. When Zucker gives advice on how to ...

Elliot Kalan is a comedy writer. He writes jokes professionally. Now, he's written a book about writing jokes. It's called Joke Farming: How to Write Comedy and Other Nonsense, and it seeks to answer ...

B.J. Novak ’01 arrived at Harvard with the comedic competence of a seasoned professional. “He was on this completely different level,” said W. David Marx ’01, one of Novak’s college roommates. “I was ...