Early last winter, while browsing Manhattan’s Strand bookstore, roommates Carina Hsieh and Claudia Arisso came upon a keychain featuring a tiny version of the totemic, subway-friendly Strand tote bag.

The award-winning actor, 71, will take the stage at Gillian Lynne Theatre in London next year.

There’s a clip wafting its way around social media this week, as isolated bits of comedy are wont to do. At just under two minutes, “Instagram” is short and sweet: Former Saturday Night Live star ...

Sketch comedy is older than television itself. The traditional set up of three to six-minute sketches that are loosely tied together with either a host, a theme, or some overarching tonal quality, is ...

A new sketch comedy series is breaking ground as a secular-style show for women with a distinctly Catholic heart. Created by ...

This isn’t meant to be answered with certainty, but for a moment, ask yourself: What is the single best comedy sketch of all time? From any source — Abbott & Costello, Monty Python, “Saturday Night ...

The show is themed around a true crime hen party and will have audiences laughing out loud.

If the uncontrolled proliferation of TV outlets and social media sites gave us any joy this past decade, it’s because of all the new opportunities for great comedy that swelled up in their wake. Never ...

As comedy has become more popular, the demand for books about comedy and/or comedians has increased immensely. Besides the many memoirs, there has been a glut of books about improv, from the ...

It’s tempting to say that YouTube and the internet has killed sketch comedy on TV. Why grab your remote to sit through a grab bag of sketches when you can pick and choose online? Like the album and ...