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For the vast majority of stand-ups in comedy clubs, addressing tragedy that evokes sorrow and fear can backfire.
- The difference between comedy and tragedy is if you walk into an open sewer and die, to me it could be comedy. Didn't happen to me. Why do I care? Who gives a shit? But tragedy is if I'll cut my ...
TV Review ‘Dying for Sex’ Blends Comedy, Tragedy, and Kink Michelle Williams is fantastic as a woman with terminal cancer who embarks on a weird and wild sexual quest ...
In my mind, a tragedy was something that made you cry, and a comedy was something that made you laugh — thus the laughing and crying masks.
Mike Birbiglia, Alex Edelman, Jacqueline Novak, Jenny Slate, Taylor Tomlinson and Ramy Youssef convene for a conversation about comedy, tragedy and everything in between.
With his new album and comedy special, Cayton-Holland is attempting to pull off a familiar but risky move: making parenthood not just funny, but relatable to audiences who don’t have kids.
As the Chicago White Sox prepare for a potentially historic night, how will we remember their worst season?
In a column titled “Joe Biden, From Comedy to Tragedy,” Tyrrell had concluded that the freshman president of the United States, one Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., a man of a “multiplicity of ...
Sasha Denisova, celebrated Ukrainian playwright and director, merges comedy and tragedy, fact and fiction, and the serious and the imaginative in "The Gaaga," a site-specific phantasmagoria.
Love is in the air! It's Valentine's season once again. February 14 is a special day for lovers, young and old alike.