From Carl Reiner’s toupee to Carrie Bradshaw’s laptop, Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History explores comedy in America through the artifacts and memorabilia that have kept us in stitches.

As kids, you might have had a favorite subject: maybe math, science, literature, or even history. But let’s face it, history class sometimes had a way of feeling...a little too long. All those dates, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Golden Globes have been honoring comedies since the 1950s and the days of such Billy Wilder gems as The Apartment and Some ...

Looking Back at the First Five Years of SNLAt this point in my look at the history and development of sketch comedy shows I would be amiss if I didn’t mention Monty Python’s Flying […] ...

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have spent years shaping public life with the kind of confidence that feels both steady and electric, moving from courtroom sharpness and community grit to global ...

The evolution of inappropriate humor throughout history is traced, showcasing the work from groundbreaking comedians who risked their careers, prison sentences and even their lives as they fought ...

Richard Pryor, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Roseanne Barr, Chris Rock, Jim Carrey and Whoopi Goldberg are just a handful of the big name comics who got their start at Los Angeles' famed Comedy Store.

Keegan-Michael Key has done everything from creating and starring in "Key & Peele" to playing Horatio in "Hamlet" at New York City's Public Theater. But when the versatile performer looks back ...

An author who specializes in unearthing forgotten figures argues for the importance of Charlie Hill, the first Indigenous comic to appear on “The Tonight Show.” By Jason Zinoman To the extent Will ...

MONTH SHOWS THE IMPACT OF THE DC COMEDY SCENE AND WHAT IT HAS HAD ON THE BUSINESS AS A WHOLE. AND JOINING US LIVE THIS MORNING. BLESS YOU. BY THE WAY, MORE ON THE MECCA OF COMEDY IS DIRECTOR AND ...

The History of Comedy (10 p.m., CNN) – A new eight-part docu-series looking at groundbreaking comics, starting with George Carlin, Dick Gregory and Lenny Bruce, who embraced the risqué side of comedy ...