Screenwriter Michael Idov makes an impressive directing debut with the super-smart, confidently lensed “The Humorist.” Set in the waning days of the Soviet Union when decadence and repression went ...

A smart social satire focusing on a comic in the late days of the Soviet Union cracking under the weight of official constraints and self-loathing. Screenwriter Michael Idov makes an impressive ...

GRAHAM, N.C. — Jeanne Robertson, a well-known humorist and motivational speaker from Graham, died unexpectedly on Saturday, according to her professional Facebook page. Robertson, 77, was struggling ...

This cover image released by Little, Brown and Company shows "Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)," by David Sedaris. (Little, Brown and Company via AP) NEW YORK — David Sedaris, over more than a ...

The look on the face of humorist David Sedaris is as serious as a tax return. "I don't have a clue," he is saying. "I genuinely do not have a clue." The subject at hand is the stupefying popularity of ...

Monologuist, humorist and storytelling expert James Judd, headliner of NPR‘s Snap Judgment Live! tour, has accidentally ended up in a whorehouse in China while working as a banned journalist, ...

Humorist Calvin Trillin once defined humor by saying it’s undefinable: “It’s what makes the lady in the second row laugh.” You can’t debate it, he said. You can’t tell her, “This joke worked yesterday ...

The word suggests cardigan sweaters,” says David Sedaris. The word is humorist. He doesn’t like it. It’s not as bad as funnyman, but it’s close. “The humor section,” he whines into the phone, speaking ...

A century ago, you wouldn’t have to be told who George Ade was. Regrettably, that’s not the case today. He was an acclaimed humorist, from Indiana and then Chicago, writing a column, “Stories of the ...

Quo Vadimus?—E.B. White—Harper ($2). Elwyn Brooks (“Andy”) White for eleven years wrote the oxymoronic introductory paragraphs to each New Yorker issue. The tone of these paragraphs, a kind of ...