A carefully curated and thorough canon of 119 titles that will keep any fan of comedy occupied and happy for a good long while. Photo-Illustration: Vulture A carefully curated and thorough canon of ...

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 ...

Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture — and the Magic That Makes It Work; By Jesse David Fox; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 368 pp., $29.00 Comedy Book takes the reader on a journey through comedic ...

The authors of “Comedy Book” and “Outrageous” argue that culture-war worries about what’s a laughing matter have been overplayed. By Rich Juzwiak Rich Juzwiak has written about pop culture for Time, ...