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Ridiculing critics as humorless is a strategy that's been cultivated for years by figures on the right, said Nick Marx, a ...

The Jewish people have made extraordinary contributions to pretty much every field imaginable. Scientists such as Albert ...

Handed down since Moses was kvetching about having to cross the desert in his bare feet, Jewish humor emanated from Eastern Europe where the Hebrews overcame some seriously hellacious circumstances on ...

Here’s what the Merriam-Webster dictionary said: “Sarcasm can be traced back to the Greek verb sarkazein, which initially ...

To curate this list, he dives into Max’s comedy catalogue every month to surface laugh-out-loud funny titles — using his taste and a lifetime of cinema study as his guide, instead of whatever ...

And what better Hollywood connection than Anna Mahler (whose bust of Klemperer is one of the first things you see entering the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion), who even appeared on Groucho Marx’s ...

Their personalities couldn’t be more different – Allen, 39, is reserved, cynical, but waspishly funny and highly astute; Oliver, 40, is wonderfully optimistic, with the excitable, sometimes ...

The movie drew huge acclaim at the time of its release with a 94% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, The Hollywood Reporter calling it a "painfully funny satire of British and American bureaucrats ...

“Accompanied by his onstage pianist, Ferrante portrays the young Groucho of stage and film and reacquaints us with the likes of brothers Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and Gummo, Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields and ...

VIENNA (AP) — The aristocrats of the Habsburg royal court who danced in the first of Vienna ’s famed balls in the 18th century could never have imagined how the hallmark of the Austrian capital’s ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The cockpit voice recorder was not working on a medical transport plane that killed seven people when it plummeted into a Philadelphia neighborhood in January and likely had not ...