The Masked Observer has seen a few mystic societies that decided to improvise their tableaux (Yes, we’re looking at you, Fifty Funny Fellows. But we’ll get to that.), so he was a little ...

For the recent MTV Movie Awards, pop culture aficionados were delighted to see the resurrection of Les Grossman, the feral, vulgar movie producer from the Ben Stiller film Tropic Thunder, as the pu… ...

The 10th Annual 50 First Jokes show gave the audience a chance to see whether or not stand-up comics can make comedians laugh John F. O’Donnell during his opening monologue, with the first round ...

The Masked Observer should have seen it coming, but he still had to avert his eyes on Wednesday night when the Fifty Funny Fellows lampooned Montgomery's recent embarrassments.

This is how the scene must have looked at the Backdoor Comedy Club downtown on the night of February 1: It's open mike night. In the lobby, a middle-aged woman with a mop of spiral curls is ...

While American newspapers began running comic strips in the 1890s, readers of Washington’s afternoon Reporter didn’t get a daily dose of full-page funnies until February 1929. A look back through ...

I was in that room, which held about 30 media members, and there was dead silence when Newton proclaimed “It’s funny” – because actually it wasn’t funny at all. To state the obvious ...

The invitation for the public opening (6-9 tonight) of an exhibit of paintings by Murray Whisnant lists him as “an architect, designer, inventor, furniture maker and artist.” ...

Starting today, it will run in the Observer's comics pages, replacing "FMinus." Morgenthaler, 41, also is a movie director whose work ranges from children's films to art house.

If you’re a family man or woman, it is nearly impossible to see live comedy with your little ones. That’s because the man or woman of the hour-and-a-half-or-so on stage either made his name ...