Tag: Comedies
The 26 Best Romantic Comedies to Watch if You Want to Know What Love Feels Like
Rom-coms combine the best of both worlds: love and laughter. So when we set out to find the best romantic comedies of all time, there were dozens of beloved rom-coms to choose from. From Meg Ryan classics like Sleepless in Seattle and When Harry Met Sally to newer flicks like Crazy Rich Asians and Palm Springs, rom-coms have been around for decades (or even centuries, according to some experts who consider Shakespeare plays some of the best romantic comedies), … Read more
The Women Behind the Thirteen-Year-Olds of “PEN15”
Around then, another pair of best friends, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, débuted their stoner comedy “Broad City,” on Comedy Central, and it became a runaway success. Suddenly, TV executives were looking for the next big female duo. Konkle and Erskine landed several “general meetings,” an industry term for open-ended pitch sessions. One of the ideas they batted around was a sitcom called “Fosters,” in which they’d play former cult members hiding out by posing as teen-agers in a foster
The Artist Behind TV’s Richly Emotional Comedies
When the artist Lisa Hanawalt was sixteen years old and a junior at a public high school in Palo Alto, California, she would finish classes for the day and hurry to meet her close friend, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, in the green room behind her school’s theatre. Settling on a pair of sagging recliners, the two friends would flip through Hanawalt’s sketchbooks, with Bob-Waksberg conjuring voices and lines of dialogue for the array of figures she had drawn. The pages, she told
The 21 Best TV Comedies of the 21st Century (So Far)
What is funny? “Funny” can describe straight-up ha-ha pleasure: watching Lucy Ricardo get drunk on Vitameatavegamin or Homer Simpson fall into Springfield Gorge, twice. But it can also mean something odd (I have a funny feeling about this) or disconcerting (My stomach feels funny) or suspicious (Are you up to something funny?).
In today’s bumper crop of TV comedy, what funny is not is simple or monolithic. So picking our 21 favorite American comedies of the 21st century — the
The Best Comedies on Hulu Right Now (May 2021)
Laughing is good for you, and comedies are one of the best ways to get those laughs you need. Whether you had a tough week and need an escape or you just want to have a few chuckles before tucking in for the night, if you have a Hulu subscription, there is a litany of great comedies at your disposal. But the last thing you want to do is waste hours scrolling among countless titles to find something you really