Kevin McDonald is an actor, improviser, and comedian best known for his work with Canada's Kids in the Hall sketch comedy troupe. McDonald will be at Denver's Voodoo Comedy Playhouse all weekend, ...

Writing comedy in the age of Donald Trump poses many challenges, the most obvious being how to compete with a President determined to be more outrageous—and to draw more attention—than any form of ...

In Writing sketches, part one, we examined issues such as finding an idea and formatting, and simple comic techniques such as misdirection and callbacks. In this piece, we'll discuss further elements ...

While other actors on 'In Living Color' were handed prepared scripts, brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans were forced to write their own material. “Working on In Living Color was nerve-wracking, ...

Sketch comedy has been a staple of British television for decades. From Monty Python to The Fast Show, That Mitchell And Webb Look to Armstrong & Miller, great sketches have given us lots of iconic ...

Allen Strickland Williams is a Los Angeles-based writer, comedian and former NBC page who somehow absorbed that office’s buttoned-down aesthetic. Today Williams, along with fellow standups Jake ...

"Our eyes connected and we were like, 'It's over.'" David Spade is taking a look back at the time when he and Tom Hanks wrote a comedy sketch on "Saturday Night Live." While appearing on Wednesday's ...

An intensive workshop, led by Josie Throup & Tom Short will provide you with the tools & techniques to create hilarious & engaging sketches Comedy Lab Sketch Writing 2-Day Intensive with Tom Short and ...

Welcome to our column Sketch Anatomy, where we ask some of our favorite television writers to choose any sketch – one they personally wrote or one from history they find particularly hilarious, ...

The "Key & Peele" sketch starts small: Just two guys complaining about their wives, who are in another room, out of earshot. One swears he said to his wife — who told him to be in the car by 6:45 when ...

N-trig’s DuoSense Pen 2 only ships with specific tablet and laptop lines for Windows and Android, but if you’re Considering getting one of those setups, it’s a nice built-in accessory. In my travels, ...