For the vast majority of stand-ups in comedy clubs, addressing tragedy that evokes sorrow and ... It was familiar faces from late-night TV, more than anyone else, that eased us from the aftershock ...

A group of selected artists were challenged to imagine and create on the theme "Tragedy and Comedy - Faces of Mankind" that had a wide room for exploration and they did not disappoint. They ...

11 attacks. From David Letterman to Saturday Night Live to Jon Stewart, she traces the ways in which comedy has continued to collide with tragedy, perhaps even more than it did before. And she ...

“It’s weird because with humor, the equation is tragedy plus time ... waiting for you.’” To face down his fresh demons, Oswalt tried something, nonetheless: comedy. In September, he ...

A little more than 24 hours earlier, Caleb Medley milled about the “green room” with almost a dozen other comics, waiting to deliver a five-minute set in the New Faces competition at the ...

"Crimes of the Heart" blends all the ingredients of a black comedy in the Southern ... Inheriting this tragedy and living with it is something each sister faces separately. Most of the cast ...