Some leaders reduce our math crisis to two words: test scores. For decades, hopes of progress were dashed by flat to declining scores. Full-bore panic about fading global competitiveness. Urgent calls ...

I don’t know about you, but I need to laugh right now. If you’re like me and have a Netflix subscription, you’re in luck. The streamer just added a slew of new comedies that will make you smile, laugh ...

Cue trumpeters! Cue fireworks! Cue dry ice! Cue dancing Beefeaters! A spectacular opening ceremony sees Jon Petrie, Director of Comedy at the BBC, don his traditional garb to welcome everyone to this ...

The comedian is contributing some 20,000 documents and photos covering his career, including his time in the Army and the lyrics for “Springtime for Hitler.” By Jason Zinoman As the 2,000-Year-Old Man ...

Of all the cinematic genres, comedy is the hardest to truly master. Humor is so context-dependent, and changes so wildly from person to person (let alone between generations), that many comedies ...

Vir Das made comedy history when he became the first Indian stand-up to receive a Netflix special (Abroad Understanding, 2017). In Landing, his fourth special on the platform, he mentally returns to ...

Stand-up comedy is so much more than telling jokes with a microphone in hand. For seasoned masters of the art, it’s an exploration of everything right and wrong with humanity, all at once, from the ...

Wong’s work has always been distinguished by her fearlessness and her drive to talk about mundane realities that other people hesitate to disclose. Her jokes are not a self-deprecating list of flaws; ...

More than 5,000 photographs, including these polaroids, from the archives of Mel Brooks will be donated to the National Comedy Center. National Comedy Center A month before he turns 100 years old, ...