Jon Savitt performs stand-up at the Phoenix Theater. HOST: Twin Cities-based comedian Jon Savitt has been told his whole life that he'd have to move to places like New York or LA to pursue a career in ...

This year, for the first time since 1982, the last three consecutive Best Comedy Writing Emmy winners are nominated in the category simultaneously. Looking to emulate “Taxi’s” defeat of “M*A*S*H” and ...

With 94 submissions, this year's Best Comedy Writing category at the Emmys will have six finalists when the nominations are announced July 15. As expected, there are many single submissions from many ...

It’s always been tough to be a woman in comedy, and while we’ve seen some progress in recent years, the cliché of a male-dominated TV comedy writing staff remains very much a reality. (Just take a ...

It takes a village to write an Emmy-quality episode. The 2025 field for Best Comedy Writing includes a whopping 19 writers, spanning six shows. Only one of the nominated episodes was penned by a ...

Joan Steidl, who is now retired, shares her reinvention takeaways. She has a podcast about confronting the generational divide, takes comedy workshops and went back to college.

After making history as the first Black woman to receive three Emmy nominations for comedy, Quinta Brunson did it again Monday when she won Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for her work on ...

A distinguished group of comedy writers and writer-directors gathered at the Harmony Gold Theater earlier this month to expound on their craft at the Writers Guild of America's "The Serious Business ...

The Emmy-nominated comedian reinvents herself as a self-help author--a funny self-help author--in "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying." By Tim Appelo Carol Leifer - P 2013 And now, in ...

Writing comedy in the age of Donald Trump poses many challenges, the most obvious being how to compete with a President determined to be more outrageous—and to draw more attention—than any form of ...

Who’s funnier, AI or humans? A new study found that we find ChatGPT-generated comedy funnier than, or as funny as, comedy written by humans, including professional writers. The findings suggest that ...