Standup comedian Jacques Silvère Bah, known as Le Magnific, played with French and African words and accents at a humor festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in February. Arlette Bashizi for The New York ...

The Palo Alto Players’ production of playwright Lauren Gunderson’s “The Revolutionists” deserves huge audiences because it’s both laugh-out-loud funny and starkly serious. The play manages to find ...

THE BEST CARTOONS FROM FRANCE (120 pp.) — Collected by Edna Bennett —Simon & Schuster ($2.95). THE TATTOOED SAILOR (115 pp.)—André François—Knopf ($2.95). French humor prides itself on its elegantly ...