On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Owen Gleiberman and Peter Debruge, Variety’s chief film critics, detail the how and the why behind their selections for Variety’s new 100 Greatest Comedy ...

Pitch-black comedy has been one of the defining features of 21st-century television, as the industry moved from the earnest family sitcoms of the 1970s and 1980s — think “Family Ties” — to shows that ...

Another month, and another wave of great new comedies on Netflix. The offerings on Netflix in November 2025 include a classic Bill Murray flick, one of the best – if not the best comedy of the 2010s, ...

Brett Goldstein is expanding his TV series presence to another major streamer. Goldstein, star, writer and executive producer on Apple TV+’s Ted Lasso and co-creator, executive producer and recurring ...

When it comes to genre mash-ups, one of the most entertaining is action and comedy. Emerging in the 1980s, action-comedies have become one of the most entertaining and crowd-pleasing hybrid film ...

I have more than a little residual affection for a movie that many of you might have missed during its theatrical run — the 2018 comedy "Game Night," co-directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan ...

The essence of dark comedy is sending up the sacred or the unthinkable, often mocking or challenging social expectations. It’s the same kind of maneuver that the recent movie release “If I Had Legs ...

The crime comedy is a genre that has had a long history in Hollywood, and it’s easy to see why. It combines the pleasures of laughter with the adrenaline in crime, and the very best examples of the ...

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The Riyadh Comedy Festival began on Friday and includes many of the world’s most famous comedians on its bill. But the comedy festival in Saudi Arabia’s capital has become something of a cultural ...