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 ...

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 ...

A great sketch starts with a great plan. Before you put pencil to paper, a solid composition can make all the difference. Learn the essential steps to planning a sketch from scratch, including how to ...

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 ...

Since joining Saturday Night Live’s writing staff in the fall of 2011, Zach Kanin has quickly found his footing on the show and created some memorable sketches, not that it comes as any surprise to ...

“Did he know who had taken the picture?” Crace wrote in his sketch of the interview for The Guardian the following day. “‘Um... er...,’ mumbled Boris. There ...

Sean Schafer Hennessy never got to meet his grandfather, but he found a way to know him through a sketchbook full of drawings that would later inspire a powerful musical tribute. Francis Xavier ...