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 ...

Mel Brooks said it best. “To me, tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.” When you’re 12, though, the line between comedy and tragedy can thin to ...

I do, passionately. But as I grow older, I grow more firmly convinced that comedy is truer to life than tragedy, not just onstage but in all the narrative art forms. This isn't to say that the ...

You have our attention. What follows this surrealistic prologue is one of the most surprising fusions of comedy and tragedy to have played on a Shaw Festival stage in some time. Bond’s play is ...

The punchline not only lands, but it speaks to a much larger theme of finding laughter in the face of tragedy. More than just a comedy album, “Good Grief: A Comedy About Loss and Being Bad At It ...

In Nobody Asked for This, Georgia Toews blends tragedy with comedy, against a familiar backdrop in Toronto. The story’s narrator, Virginia, is a 23-year-old aspiring stand-up comedian who dreams ...

Mohammed Amer has spoken about his family's experience as Palestinian refugees in standup comedy. He spent nearly a decade turning it into a... Mohammed Amer's new series explores the tragedy and ...

A Jewish Tragedy returns to the Lakewood Cultural Center 470 S. Allison Parkway, August 3 – 20, 2023. This hilarious and heartfelt one-person comedy tells the story of actor/comedian ...

The bloody revenge tragedy “Titus Andronicus,” which runs from Aug. 3 to 11, and the pastoral comedy “As You Like It,” which runs from Aug. 9 to 17. “Titus Andronicus” will be at The ...