Mainstream comedy is frankly in a bit of a lull right now. Sitcoms and theatrical comedy movie are disappearing, few comic novels are getting published, and comedy podcasts are just comedians ...

This list was originally published in 2013 and last updated in 2018. Since then, there’s been a few new and classic books worth adding. Now we have the true ultimate comedy library — at least until ...

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What inspired you to develop a book from the “Comedy Bang! Bang!” universe? I hadn’t really thought about it, but our editor Samantha Weiner reached out to us. She really had a vision for it. I get ...

A history of comedy’s last three decades of pop culture dominance argues that it is among the consequential American art forms. As a woman who spent her 20s in often-dark, sometimes-damp basements ...

Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: Marka / Alamy; Trinity Mirror / Alamy; Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy. This familiar trope is also the opening setup to Curtis Sittenfeld’s latest ...

In 1989, the same year Seinfeld premiered, no comedian had ever headlined at Madison Square Garden. Since then, nearly 20 comedians have done so. Comedy is changing, and its icons have permeated ...

Masterclass: Writing Comedy is a newly released book which offers a guide to pinning down what is funny, and how to write it down. It's for writers of all and any comic motivation - whether as a ...