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Facebook has restored a comedy sketch video about how the mainstream media sacrifices facts for narratives, following a Breitbart Tech report on the video’s blacklisting. The social media claims the removal was an error, telling comedy group DWECK “We’re sorry we got this wrong.”

One of the UK’s most famous comedians has defended Boris Johnson’s “joke” about the Islamic burqa face veil, calling it “funny” and “an almost perfect simile”.

VICE News on HBO ran a segment about the growing number of comedians who will not play college campuses because leftists can’t take a joke.

Debate continues to rage over Michelle Wolf’s “comedy” act delivered at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner with many in the media embarrassed over the profane address even as many celebrities rejoiced at the speech.

Disgraced comedian Kathy Griffin has again attacked President Donald Trump and his family, describing them as “psychos” who attempted to ruin her career.

Comedian Kathy Griffin announced Friday that she plans to attend this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, nearly a year after her posing for a photo holding a bloody replica of President Donald Trump’s severed head spurred a two month Secret Service investigation.

Humanity also had me laughing at myself, at me and mine, which is healthy, which actually feels good, and is easy to do when you are in the company of a legitimate satirist as opposed to a left-wing bigot.

Comedian Kathy Griffin is embarking on her comeback, some nine months after she provoked outrage — and lost much of her work — by posing with a fake severed head that appeared to depict President Donald Trump.

Facebook “has completely destroyed independent digital comedy,” according to Funny or Die’s Matt Klinman, who was recently interviewed following mass layoffs at the company.

Bill Cosby has performed in public for the first time since a sex abuse scandal embroiled him in 2015, telling stories and honoring old friends in his hometown on Monday as a retrial looms in his criminal sexual assault case.

The latest episode of ‘South Park’ took aim at Social Justice Warriors, ridiculing them for their attempts to tear down historical statues and their obsession with racial identity politics.

The humor that ages like wine instead of milk—Gulliver’s Travels, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, I Love Lucy—appears as the exception that proves the rule.

Stand-up comedy superstar and Hollywood A-lister Kevin Hart is willing to crack jokes on just about any topic, except politics.

Embattled comedian Bill Cosby is preparing both for his long-awaited day in court and, he hopes, an eventual return to performing stand-up comedy.

Comedians are frustrated after realising their anti-Brexit routines are not popular outside of London, with audience members walking out for the first time in their careers.

Comedian and actor Ricky Gervais has come out in defense of a “dead baby” joke he reportedly made during a stand-up performance earlier this week in Belfast, Ireland.

During an interview with Breitbart Editor Milo Yiannopoulos on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued that authoritarians want to police comedy because when people laugh at a joke it’s because “they know it’s true.” During a

Comedian George Lopez lashed out a female audience member who was apparently offended by his racially-charged jokes.

After 24 hours in Jerusalem, Louis C.K. already gets it. “It’s very nice to be in Israel, in Jerusalem, but it’s weird,” he said Thursday, during the first of two stand-up shows on the same night at the capital’s Payis Arena. “Everyone I talk to who lives here says it’s crazy.”

The Times of Israel reports: It’s not a joke this time. Comedian Louis C.K. is coming to Israel to perform on Thursday, August 18, at Jerusalem’s Payis Arena.

President Barack Obama “appreciated the sentiment” in comedian Larry Wilmore’s White House Correspondents Dinner comedy speech, even though he used the ’N-word’ to refer to the president.

A man officially named Buzz Lightyear has won a year long battle with authorities to have his new name included on his driving licence. Mr. Lightyear, formerly Sam Stephens, changed his name by deed poll last year by signing the

Ronnie Corbett is dead at 85 – and with him that golden era of British television comedy, when as a nation we all laughed together at the same tastefully smutty, funny, apolitical jokes on the same programmes on the same

The L.A. comedy scene is being terrorised by a clique of hyper-progressive, politically correct comedians intent on purging their ideological opponents and rivals from the industry.

Veteran comedienne and actress Carol Burnett, whose variety program The Carol Burnett Show ran for 11 years (1967-1978) on CBS, complained on Friday she is bored with the state of comedy TV.

British comedian Ricky Gervais has been attacked and condemned as “transphobic” and “bigoted” after he described transgender reality TV star Bruce Jenner as “brave” and a “role model” at the Golden Globes film awards. Mr. Gervais spared no punches through out

Long ago late at night, before Jay, Dave and the Jimmys, there was Johnny, a droll comedian out of Nebraska. A demographer’s dream, he evoked the viewer’s father, husband, son, or funny uncle.

During a radio interview Sunday, comic legend and self-appointed political pundit Jackie Mason sounded off on the latest debate performances of some of the major Republican contenders. Mason was speaking during a regular segment on the popular weekend talk radio

The Telegraph is promoting an obscure petition calling for “right wing” comedian Andrew Lawrence to be banned from the BBC after he joked that feminists could kill themselves to achieve gender equality. Mr Lawrence, who is well-known for his politically

As you read this, I will be on a bus somewhere between PA and Ohio hawking a book. I can’t use the bus toilet (we aren’t allowed), which pretty much negates the principle of a bus toilet. Instead we use the Cracker Barrel Restroom, which happens to be the name of my next metal band.

Director and writer M. Night Shyamalan’s 11th film is possibly his best work since 2004’s The Village. In The Visit, Shyamalan blends classic horror and comedy together to make a film ideal for a fall season release and to show he still has what it takes to be a fine filmmaker in the horror and suspense genres.

Comedian Adam Carolla arrived in London yesterday for a one off live recording of his record-breaking podcast. Any concerns he and his team might have had about his chances of success were swiftly put to rest when he took to the stage

A week after taking a stand against her critics, self-described feminist comedian Amy Schumer is apologizing for the politically incorrect material that put her on the map to begin with.

Liberals are not only more politically correct than conservatives, but are also destroying comedy, according to HBO’s Bill Maher.

Evan Sayet is proof once again that you can do funny standup comedy with conservative subject matter. But don’t expect that comedy to be quiet. Comedy is loud and Evan Sayet is as straightforward a conservative as you can get.

By the time you read this, I may well already be on the road, heading to Phoenix for the opening night of my multi-city tour of comedy clubs across America. It’s an arduous and ambitious tour that I really don’t have to be doing. But I feel I need to. Here’s why.