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In works like “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull the pain but to hone it.

Mr. Flaherty first became known for playing a series of oddball characters on one of TV’s most influential sketch shows. He was later a familiar face in film and on TV.

As the principal writer for the Obie-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe, she created iconoclastic left-wing satire that courted both chuckles and outrage.

The comedian has always had a sharp Borscht Belt approach, but only in his return to “The Daily Show” can we see how he wields this style so expertly.

The art form has faced challenges as nightlife norms shift — and as its audience ages — but it has also evolved. Five figures from the New York scene discuss.

Mr. MacIntosh was known for his role as Keith Bishop, a dry, blunt accountant on the original version of “The Office.”

His new special nods at his past resentment of Kevin Hart and others. It’s part of a stand-up tradition of feuds like the ones fueled by Katt Williams.

Dakota Johnson hosted and Justin Timberlake was the musical guest in an episode that brought back some old favorites and also offered a few surprises.

Stewart, who hosted the Comedy Central show from 1999 to 2015, will also be an executive producer.

Jacob Elordi hosted an episode in which Alaska Airlines was mocked with a parody ad about finding the upside in a flight where a door plug blew out.

In his feed on the app, the stand-up offers to help bewildered passers-by or pose for a photo. It’s an approach to fame and persona that puts his comedy in a new light.

He wrote more than 100 symphonic, choral, solo instrumental and chamber works. But he was better known, and celebrated, as a musical parodist. Who can forget the “Concerto for Horn and Hardart”?

The actor captured the Emmy for best actor in a limited series for his role as Danny Cho in “Beef.”

HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” bested NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” by winning scripted variety series.

Still puffily padded but no longer particularly tart, this shape-shifting classic about the girls you love to hate retains its ingratiating charms.

The stand-up has a new TV gig and a spot on the list of top-grossing comedy tours. Still, “there sometimes feels like there isn’t anyone my age to talk to.”

In an interview on the ABC program “GMA3” the morning after the awards show, Koy said he would “be lying” if he said the criticism “doesn’t hurt.”

A Las Vegas institution, he would do just about anything for a laugh, including physical comedy so broad that it sometimes left him black and blue.

“The Dreamer” predictably includes trans and disabled jokes but punches down in other ways, too. Chappelle is part of a comedy elite that Gary Gulman pokes at.

The British comedy short has aired annually in Germany and other European countries for decades. Now, members of Gen Z are having fun with it on social media.

He was close with John Lennon, and had a sophisticated understanding of wine, politics and literature. He only played the bumpkin onstage.