A comedy routine often benefits from a straight man. When Carl Reiner died, in 2020, the Times noted that, as the foil to the likes of Sid Caesar and Mel Brooks, he had “specialized in portraying the ...
Ronny Chieng, Gary Gulman and other comics are experimenting with long buildups that can be audacious … when they work. By Jason Zinoman A joke can be broken down into two sections: The setup, which ...
In what seems to be the series finale of Apple’s smash-hit football show, Ted Lasso, there are perhaps three mushy, heartstring-yanking scenes for every one mild joke. HBO’s Barry definitively ...
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