And, if you happen to be in the Big Apple, the new Broadway show “All Out” features a stacked rotating cast made up of comedy ...

These days, we don’t think of Steve Martin as an innovator. Not when he’s starring in standard family fare like the Cheaper by the Dozen and Pink Panther remakes. But when Martin was first getting ...

With young people increasingly fixated on social media, YouTube and short-form video, 2025 might be the year that studios ...

Comedy isn’t “jokes.” And it isn’t “humor,” either. Well, it is, but it’s so many more things, too. Comedy is the word to describe that amorphous, precious, sacred moment of connection between two ...

Tom Arnold remembers his father as a serious man who rarely laughed. “The only time we ever heard him laugh — I mean, like, belly laugh — was when there was a Bob Hope special on,” Arnold said. “I ...

From left, Steph Tolev, Frankie Quiñones and Nate Jackson. (Photo illustration by Josep Prat Sorolla / For The Times; photographs by Christina House / Los Angeles Times and Ethan Benavidez / For The ...

San Francisco's North Beach is home to City Lights Bookstore, the Beat Museum, ample coffee and pastry shops and Italian eateries. It also has Cobb's, the revered comedy club where "Crazy Funny Asians ...

If there's one thing that there's no shortage of in Hollywood, it's bad comedy movies. Every single year, it seems like ...

After months/years/an emotional eternity of social deprivation and forced isolation, Santa Monica will host a celebration of laughter this month with the Crazy Woke Asians Kung Pow Festival. Spread ...

Comedian Joshua Meyrowitz performs recently at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood, during a comedy show that aimed to be inclusive for neurodivergent people. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times) ...