comedy

SuccessBefore ‘Abbott Elementary,’ Janelle James did it all—waitressing, personal chef, party planner, sewing teacher. Now she’s making over $4 million a season
By Jessica CoacciOctober 10, 2025

Big TechFirst Kimmel, then Fallon and Meyers? A veteran TV scholar says late night can’t survive politics anymore — and today’s hosts must ‘tread carefully’
By Eva RoytburgSeptember 18, 2025

Arts & EntertainmentSouth Park season premiere goes scorched earth on Trump following Paramount settlement
By Chris MorrisJuly 24, 2025

SuccessMultimillionaire ‘The Office’ star still worked part-time at a theater box office and drove a Honda while filming season two of the sitcom
By Preston ForeJuly 23, 2025

LifestyleRecord minor-league baseball crowd takes in home opener rebrand inspired by HBO comedy host John Oliver
By Joe Reedy and The Associated PressJuly 21, 2025

LeadershipHow a Second City improv class became a training ground for the next generation of business leaders
By Sara BraunJune 7, 2025

SuccessJimmy Fallon dropped out of college in his last semester—he says he survived on $7 a day just to get stage time, before making the millions
By Preston ForeJune 3, 2025

SuccessThe world’s highest-paid comedian says you must embrace rejection if you want to be successful: ‘It’s supposed to be hard’
By Dave SmithMay 9, 2025

PoliticsConan O’Brien accepts Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for humor as Trump moves to remake culture mecca roil arts: ‘Twain hated bullies’
By Ashraf Khalil and The Associated PressMarch 24, 2025

PoliticsTim Walz calls Tony Hinchcliffe a ‘jack wad’ after insulting Puerto Ricans at Trump’s NYC rally—’they pay taxes and serve in the military at almost a higher rate than anybody else’
By Dave Smith, Mark Kennedy and The Associated PressOctober 28, 2024

PoliticsTrump says he got ‘a couple of people from Fox’ to write jokes for him at a campaign dinner. Fox News says that didn’t happen.
By The Associated PressOctober 18, 2024

By Sydney LakeOctober 2, 2024

SuccessHow a theater student with only $200 in his bank account created one of the most popular TV shows ever—and then spent another decade working to realize his dream job
By Dave SmithMay 22, 2024

By Christopher Palmeri and BloombergFebruary 13, 2024
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