Black Comedy Fest KC returns Oct. 7-11 in Kansas City, expanding stage space for Black stand-up, improv and sketch.

Critics Consensus: Dishing out enough laughter and chemistry to spare through Keke Palmer and SZA, One of Them Days makes the buddy-comedy genre feel like magic once again. Synopsis: Best friends and ...

Adjani Salmon, co-creator and star of Dreaming Whilst Black, has said he can earn more writing an American comedy pilot than for two full seasons of a BBC show in the UK. Salmon made the admission on ...

The typical teen story portrayed on film and TV for decades on end has a comfortingly familiar story: Plucky newcomer shows ...

These are comedy films written, directed by or featuring Black people - as in people of African-American, African or Black British descent. Most of the flicks listed had me in stitches and still make ...

Nearly a decade after it was first staged, Jocelyn Bioh’s study of girlhood in 1980s Ghana is better than ever in irresistible new production ...

There is plenty to cry about in South Africa. The country has the third-highest murder rate and the highest unemployment rate in the world. Graft has corroded the shine of the ruling African National ...

Laughter is the best medicine, an escape route from our problems. But what happens when that medicine is laced with poison, the laughter mixed with gasps, and the escape route leads directly to a pit ...

The story of an African American gang member in Seattle reinventing himself as a Hasidic Jewish rapper in Jerusalem might not sound like your typical comedy series. But then, Nissim Black – the ...

As Netflix celebrates a decade in South Africa, one genre stands out as an unexpected powerhouse: comedy. In an industry where traditional broadcasters long claimed comedy didn't work, the streaming ...

In the Western academic tradition, the study of humour has developed from the time Plato (428-348 BCE) taught students in Athens how to inject irony into political debate into a subject that through ...