There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and into the 90s, a handful of stand-up comics slowly pushed ...

“I want to thank me for hiring me as a director when no one else would,” Modern Family co-creator Steve Levitan quipped when accepting the 2012 Emmy Award for directing an episode of the Emmy-winning ...

What makes us laugh is subjective, but what doesn’t can stand out like a sore thumb. It’s the dilemma facing the Emmys’ comedy series category, which, as of late, has seen the dominance of shows that ...