Saturday on Weekend Edition, Neda Ulaby looks at the issue of irony in the 10 years since the Sept. 11 attacks. From David Letterman to Saturday Night Live to Jon Stewart, she traces the ways in which ...

This week marks the one-year anniversary of the attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people, including eight of the magazine’s staff. In typical Hebdo form, the ...

Comic D.L. Hughley weaves current events into his comedy, riffing on everything from the upcoming presidential election to Caitlyn Jenner’s gender transition. But while his humor is current, Hughley ...

“I am my own boss,” I tell myself as I log into a seven-hour Zoom call about the cultural legacy of Shrek (2001) at 3 a.m. on a Saturday morning. I used to have vivid fantasies about being my own boss ...

History promises to be hilarious in the hands of Eclectic Full Contact Theatre when the company presents “History of Comedy” at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre. The journey through comedy’s past ...

There’s a great moment in a seventh-season episode of The Simpsons titled “Homerpalooza.” The episode, set (unsurprisingly) at Lollapalooza, checks in several times with the disaffected youth that ...

Neda Ulaby reports that for all that comedy has faced since Sept. 11, reports that irony would fizzle out turned out to be greatly exaggerated.... Irony In The Post-9/11 Age: Comedy And Tragedy As ...