What do you do when you’re faced with writing bits for people who don’t want to be funny? How do you dodge giving your grandfather golfing bits while keeping your fifty-dollar birthday check?

Samaritas is collaborating with LaughFest to hold a class, How To Write A Joke, where attendees can learn the process on how to write and deliver a good joke.

What makes a Letterman joke different from all other jokes? When I was freelance writing for Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live, the setups could be longer and the punch was quicker.

Learning how to write jokes, how to build your persona, how to practice, and all about why people laugh can help you add direction to your sets and mature into a more knowledgeable and skilled comic.

A joke Mahbubani tells in Cantonese starts with him narrating a recent trip to the market, where vendors address him in Chinglish, hoping he will help improve their English.

HIT PAUSE: Politics has long been a bedrock of SNL’s humour, writes Amanda Whiting. Now, the show’s adapting to politics becomes so dysfunctional its already a joke ...

Sarah Silverman on how to write jokes after you’ve nearly died ‘In times where truth has no currency, I think the most truth you can really get is through comedy.’ ...

In this excerpt from her new memoir ‘I’m Fine,’ comedian Whitney Cummings explains her family history of humor and roast jokes.

A decade ago, writer Joel Stein penned material for super-accommodating Oscar emcee Hugh Jackman, but the only thing more liberating would be no host at all.