The story of an African American gang member in Seattle reinventing himself as a Hasidic Jewish rapper in Jerusalem might not sound like your typical comedy series. But then, Nissim Black – the ...

As Netflix celebrates a decade in South Africa, one genre stands out as an unexpected powerhouse: comedy. In an industry where traditional broadcasters long claimed comedy didn't work, the streaming ...

In the Western academic tradition, the study of humour has developed from the time Plato (428-348 BCE) taught students in Athens how to inject irony into political debate into a subject that through ...

These are comedy films written, directed by or featuring Black people - as in people of African-American, African or Black British descent. Most of the flicks listed had me in stitches and still make ...

Laugh all you want but the success of filmmaker Brett Michael Innes’ first foray into mockumentary territory with “Daryn’s Gym” is part of a growing South African slate flexing its muscles within a ...

Laughter is the best medicine, an escape route from our problems. But what happens when that medicine is laced with poison, the laughter mixed with gasps, and the escape route leads directly to a pit ...

President Sir Frank Cooper of The African American Humor Awards Society, the very first Black comedy award show. Photo Credit: Sir Frank Cooper Established in 1989 by Sir Frank Cooper, The African ...

Trevor Noah, Savanna's pick to shape South Africa's Festival of Comedy, proudly presented his team Savanna tasked the South African comedians, Eugene Khoza and Ntosh Madlingozi, with finding rising ...

For most Americans, their first exposure to South African comedy has been Trevor Noah, the host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” Noah’s January 20, riff on Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Donald ...