Outstanding Writing (Drama, Comedy, Limited/Anthology or TV Movie) Series Commentary (Updated May 29, 2025): When submitting episodes for Emmy consideration, especially in the ultra-competitive drama ...

Best Comedy Writing is a nail-biter between Hacks and Widow's Bay. While the directing category might be more of a sure bet for Widow's Bay, this one is more of a headscratcher, and the pendulum could ...

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

Teach students how to write genuinely funny stories and scripts with this complete six-week comedy-writing course. The unit builds towards an original comic story or short script, which students plan, ...

To clear matters up for your well-meaning parents, here are a couple of things that sketch comedy isn’t: It’s not standup, which involves only one person telling jokes presentationally before an ...

If you'd told me ten years ago that one day I'd be taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe written with the help of artificial intelligence, I'd have assumed you were pitching a dystopian sci-fi film.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Curtis Sittenfeld about her latest novel, Romantic Comedy, about a woman in her 30s working for this weekly comedy sketch show. Romantic comedies can often get a bad rep ...