Lorin Clarke’s account of growing up with her famous father is a loving, often funny portrait.

After a winter and spring season of the live concerts Glory Days, Across the Pond and Honky Tonk Angels, Morrisburg, Ontario’s Upper Canada Playhouse is moving on to Moving In, the world premiere of a brand new comedy by Norm Foster, running June 8 to 25.

A half-hour into the Dave Chappelle show Thursday night at the Masonic, the crowd started yelling. They yelled that they loved him. They yelled to ask him to repeat lines from his old Comedy Central show. They yelled because they wanted to know what he thought of the homeless person who got sprayed with a hose in San Francisco earlier this year.

Tom Brady wasn't laughing during this comedy special. According to comedians Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen of the Dudesy podcast, the retired NFL star's company TB12 sent a cease and desist letter after an hour-long animated comedy special showing an AI imagination of the athlete was uploaded to their Patreon.

Humor allows us to understand complex emotions and the human experience, further allowing humans to connect to one another on a deeper level. Humor can be funny and can make important statements through a comedic medium, but additionally it brings people together.

Jennifer Aniston said she wishes we could laugh more at ourselves, rather than having to police every word in comedies. "Comedy has evolved, movies have evolved," the "Friends" star, 54, told AFP in Paris, where her new film "Murder Mystery 2" with Adam Sandler, is set. "Now it's a little tricky because you have to be very careful, which makes it really hard for comedians, because the beauty of comedy is that we make fun of ourselves, make fun of life," she said.

Following its release in October 2021, 'The Closer' was criticized for the comedian's material focused on the transgender community.

Seth Rogen has a message to anyone thinking about trying to reboot or revive Freaks and Geeks: GET A JOB. STAY AWAY FROM HER. “I know enough now not to fuck with that, to just let it be good and not try to go revisit it,” he told People. “And just let it exist.” Created by Mr. Suits himself, Paul Feig, and EP’d by Judd Apatow, Freaks and Geeks was the cocoon from which 2000s comedy emerged.

As one can imagine, working as a cast member on the ultra-popular hit comedy The Office often lead to some uncontrollable laughter on set. With a cast that included Steve Carrell, Rainn Wilson, Jenna Fischer, Craig Robinson, Mindy Kaling, Brian Baumgartner, Ed Helms, and a slew of other comedic geniuses, what happened off camera was often funnier than what ended up on TV.

Tech journalist Kara Swisher interviewed legendary British comedian Eric Idle on Monday, where he spoke extensively about the state of comedy in his heyday and said he hated conservatives.

Bill Maher—the same man who thought that referring to himself as a “house n*gger” on his eponymous HBO show Real Time With Bill Maher would be a funny joke—decided to share even more of his unfunny antics in a new episode. During a guest appearance featuring newly re-elected Colorado governor Jared Polis, he chastised Democrats for concentrating on “checking the boxes” when it comes to nominating candidates.

The Oscar-winner plays Davidson's grandfather while Emmy-winner Edie Falco plays his mother in this fictionalized version of the SNL alum's life.

Trevor Noah is nearing his last laugh on “The Daily Show.” The comedian, who came out of near anonymity to take over the program from Jon Stewart in 2015, plans to exit the flagship Com…

Bob Odenkirk better call his trainer because the “Better Call Saul” star is dead-set on becoming the action movie hero. The Emmy winner revealed during the 2022 Venice Film Festival while promoting Cecilia Miniucchi’s “Worlds Apart” that his turn as attorney Saul in the “Breaking Bad” prequel series inspired his hitman role in “Nobody.”

And a just world would give us several more years of it.

Launched in 2005, Mock The Week has been a comedy platform for regular panellists including Frankie Boyle, Chris Addison, Russell Howard, Ed Byrne, Zoe Lyons and Andy Parsons over the years, as well as Hugh Dennis, who has starred from the beginning.

Ted Lasso matched its record-breaking nominations haul from 2021 by scoring another 20 nods this year. Having last year picked up 20 nominations, the most ever for a freshman comedy in TV history, the warm-hearted Apple TV+ series will now battle it out for a clutch of awards at this year’s event.

Here are five comedy specials that deserve to be nominated over Chappelle’s transphobic Netflix special “The Closer.”

In 2009, when the comedian Nathan Fielder first moved to L.A., he learned to tell his managers not to send him to meetings. Why bother? If the point was to charm people into giving him a job, sitting down with them could only hurt his chances. “I’d always say, ‘If people like the stuff I’m making, I’m not going to do anything to heighten that in person,’ ” he recalled. “I’m not going to be very funny in the room.”

Ricky Gervais is the latest brave comedian to have experienced the horror of being “cancelled,” after his new special, SuperNature, dropped on Netflix, and sparked online backlash due to transphobic jokes. In this context, “cancelled” means being paid millions of dollars by Netflix to make fun of a marginalized minority, then being criticized by strangers on the internet - when will the persecution against comedians end?