The late filmmaker Rob Reiner's romance drama The American President, written by Aaron Sorkin, witnessed a sudden surge on ...

Disney’s latest theatrical release, Ella McCay, is struggling with its box office opening. The political comedy opened to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about women in comedy. CBS canceled The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last week, and while the three-decade franchise is ...

James L. Brooks’ first film as director in 15 years has some great comic moments, but feels like it’s sleepwalking through its sentimental story of a young state Governor thrown in the deep end of ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When Donald Trump seemed poised to win the presidential election in 2016, Trevor Noah, then the host of The Daily Show, began the program’s live night-of special ...

Think about the political comedians performing today. Of those, how many are conservative? Not many, right? Alison Dagnes, a political scientist, media maven and self-described “comedy dork,” has ...

Dave Chappelle and Mo Amer became close during the pandemic, when Chappelle managed to secure a COVID testing machine and created a bubble at his Ohio home to bring in comedians to perform. Amer was ...

Government pressure to yank Jimmy Kimmel off the air after an on-air comment after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. The cancellation of longtime Donald Trump critic Stephen Colbert’s show after his ...

It is often remarked that Saturday Night Live is no less than an American institution, and I’d agree. In its four-and-a-half decades on the air, SNL has eviscerated, pummeled, beclowned, besmirched ...

These comedic pioneers didn’t just tell jokes—they fundamentally shaped how Americans laugh, what subjects are acceptable for humor, and how comedy can function as social commentary rather than mere ...