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Christopher Smith, better known as Peacemaker, exploded onto screens in The Suicide Squad as a violent misfit who feels both absurd and deeply human.
DeJon is credited with opening 275 Park, Brooklyn’s first Black-owned comedy club, in Clinton Hill. He was 63.
TV Comedy’s Sad Decline: ‘A State of Emergency’ "This season is going to go down in history," bemoans one rep as the ratio of hits to flops shrinks and audiences ignore new shows in favor of ...
There’s nothing wrong with a feel-good sports comedy. And it isn’t necessarily an indictment that “Stick” is better at the feel-good part than the comedy part (the jokes are pretty corny).
The 1986 comedy went for laughs and tried to make a point in the process, but was met with plenty of resistance.
“I was writing a joke the other day about the upside of psychopathy and drugs, and I started to think about how Rick James said, ‘Cocaine is a hell of a drug’ to me,” Neal Brennan says ...
Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson, is the latest in a series of movies throughout the decades about sad men alone in space. Here's a ranking of all of them.
It’s a paradox: The men and women who make people laugh for a living often struggle with mental health challenges off-stage. Here’s what science says about it.
Comedy—the art of making other people laugh—is so mysterious and unquantifiable that at times it seems less like craft and more like magic. What makes one person laugh uncontrollably might ...
Josh Sharp’s ta-da! is a one-man comedy show inside of a manic 2,000 slide PowerPoint. Expect dumb but erudite jokes and sad but sweet stories alongside the Herculean feat of stupidity that is ...