In 2006, when the company was still mailing DVD rentals, Netflix produced a stand-up special for a pre–The Hangover Zach Galifianakis called Live at the Purple Onion. It was more structurally and ...

I've heard people say the best comedians can come up with the best horror projects because comedy and horror are two sides of ...

When it comes to sitcoms, TV hasn’t been the same since the ’80s and ’90s. The format has evolved, adapted, and kept shaping humor for decades in bold and creative ways. Overall, the genre works as ...

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 ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

One of the best political satires ever made, Veep is a prime example of comedy centered on power. The show follows Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), a vice president who, surrounded by blunders and ...

Comedy is often dismissed as lightweight entertainment, yet the genre has produced some of cinema’s most enduring masterpieces. Over the last century, the greatest comedy films have done far more than ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Jewish comedy is, of course, a long and vaunted tradition: Joan Rivers, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Larry David. No one had to tell audiences that they were Jewish. Sure, there was Jewish ...