The authors of “Comedy Book” and “Outrageous” argue that culture-war worries about what’s a laughing matter have been overplayed. By Rich Juzwiak Rich Juzwiak has written about pop ...

This book offers what Seinfeld claims are the complete files of his lifetime pursuit of material to transform into bits. “Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in ...

In her debut poetry collection, GREAT EXODUS, GREAT WALL, GREAT PARTY (American Poetry Review, 86 pp., paper, $15), Chessy Normile is often funny — “All the books on time / are pretty good ...

Book News: Jacqueline Woodson Addresses Lemony Snicket's Watermelon Joke : The Two-Way "His historical context, unlike my own, came from a place of ignorance," writes the National Book Award ...

The fractured family indie comedy-drama "Two-Bit Waltz" is the feature writing-directing debut of Clara Mamet, and as a daughter of David, she shows a certain linguistic tutelage: pointed dialogue ...

Such is the case with a two-line joke which was told early into the comedy's run, which ended up costing the production a whopping $60,000. And, it turns out that even some of those who starred on ...