Comedy has always challenged ideas and authority, but political identity increasingly shapes what audiences find funny. This ...

When my buddies Jesse Peyton, Alex Stein and I hatched the plan to host "The Right Side of Comedy: The Gulf of America Tour" at House of Blues this June, we thought we were geniuses. The Republican ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Liberals have dominated American comedy news for the past 50 years. Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, and Bill Maher are ...

For many comedy lovers—particularly liberal ones—the concept of “MAGA humor” is an oxymoron. Ever since Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce graced comedy club stages in the 1950s, political comedy has been ...

The first time Janae Burris was asked by a comedy club to leave politics out of her set, she was angry. “I was like, ‘how dare you?’ A Black woman is running for office and I can't talk about it?” ...