The 10 Best Comedy Books of 2018Featuring Chris Gethard, Nell Scovell, The Simpsons, The Kids in the Hall, and an intimate look at Robin Williams.
ByBrian Boone
The Best Comedy Books of 2017
Do you like volumes of comic essays that you’ll end up reading entirely in one sitting? How about amusingly embarrassing memoirs, […]
Mike Sacks Is Doin’ It
“If you don’t know who Mike Sacks is, well, you should.” Receiving praise like this would mean a great deal to any writer, but when the words […]
ByIan Goldstein
Watching as Bob Hope Entertains VietnamThe Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. […]
ByRamsey Ess
The 16 Best Comedy Books of 2014To add to your diet of comedy consumption which is likely already at critical mass, what with the comedy movies, sitcoms, sketch comedy shows, […]
How to Write Jokes for the Academy AwardsIn this excerpt from Mike Sacks’s new book of interviews with comedy writers, Bruce Vilanch discusses how he puts together the script for the Oscars telecast.
The First Splitsider Comedy Book Club Book Is…And Here’s The Kicker by Mike Sacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHTK won the popular comment vote, narrowly beating Chris Gethard’s A Bad Idea I’m About to […]
ByJesse David Fox
Check Out Adult Swim’s ‘Not a Blog’Did you know that Mike Sacks, author of the much-loved And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft, is now […]
Funny or Die Expands Into BooksFunny or Die just announced that it’s adding a publishing arm to its operations, planning to work with authors to get their original humor […]
Director’s CommentaryHello, I’m director Eric Wenger, pleased to be here providing commentary for the twentieth-anniversary DVD re-release of Daniel Kaufman’s Bar […]