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

Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Archive Photos—Stringer/, Columbia Pictures/Everett (2), ...

My criticism goes deeper. The 50 years of “SNL” mediocrity helped to destroy really funny, laugh-out-loud comedy as practiced by such masters as Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, George Burns ...

Despite company from Ted Williams and Whitey Herzog to Buck Showalter and Ron Washington, the Rangers’ current skipper stands ...

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

Get ready for a silly time at the cinema with this month’s Golden Age selection! The legendary Marx Brothers run amuck in the world of opera when Otis B. Driftwood (Groucho Marx) meets aspiring ...

To explain why a gag is funny is to crush its soufflé evanescence ... cracked aesthetic for decades. In Duck Soup, Groucho Marx plays Rufus T. Firefly, a wily wisecracker who suddenly becomes ...