The 1970s were a golden age for stand-up and sketch comedy, launching careers that would shape humor for decades. While a ...

Writer-director Judd Apatow, co-director of the new documentary series “Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!” explores the risks ...

Comedy movies hit their peak in the 1980s, and the hilarious stars from that era are still some of the most beloved actors in film history. Though the genre has been around since the beginning of film ...

There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and into the 90s, a handful of stand-up comics slowly pushed ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin Mull, whose droll, esoteric comedy and acting made him a hip sensation in the 1970s and later a beloved guest star on sitcoms including "Roseanne" and "Arrested Development," ...