comedy

He circumvented the entertainment industry, and made $200,000 in four days

Entertaining, if you don’t take it too seriously

Dramas and reality shows are getting trounced by half-hour comedies

Norm Macdonald has, after what amounts to a decade-long absence, returned to television as the star of his own show . I know many...

John Intini reviews Tina Fey’s new book

The friends known for humiliating each other go their separate ways

Plus: Walter Mosley’s latest, a biography of the Atlantic Ocean, the father of modern taxidermy, what Boomers can expect from the rest of life, and the late night TV wars

It depends who you ask. But even if it isn’t racist, that doesn’t mean it’s enlightened.

Does it seem to you that half-hour comedies try too hard these days to have happy endings, or at the very least redemptive...

Plus, Patrick McCabe’s latest ‘Bog Gothic’ novel, Nora Ephron in fine form, writers’ favourite books, comedian Russell Peters, and the war between chocolate-makers