Why do you think so much TV feels so homogenized? So watered down? So "non-threatening?" So much like just plain, ordinary chocolate ice-cream. Here, I'll tell you.

For years people have told me I was funny and I should go for it, but the timing was always off -- work obligations, family commitments, household responsibilities... Okay, that's B.S. The truth is, I was petrified of the idea of performing standup and that's why I never tried.

The first heckler I ever encountered yelled, "What's your day job?" I replied, "This is the first time I've ever been onstage, could you please come back and heckle me when I'm more experienced?" He shut up.

Not every pilot written by a woman will be picked up, but women are garnering more attention for their work in television and their presence will only continue to grow in upcoming years.

So I finally read your screenplay, and let me start by saying, great job. I didn't really love the title. I know you probably put a lot of thought and effort into Zombiepocalypse: To Hell and Back on the Wings of a Humidor, but something about it just didn't resonate with me.

Do you remember that thing I was working on? I told you about it at that house party a couple weeks ago? Anyway, I finally think it's time. Could you read this thing and give me notes?

So, you want to be a comedy writer? That's a heck of a decision you've come to. In today's deprived sinkhole of an economy, many people are straying from the lucrative world of comedy and becoming useless things like doctors and parents.

It was announced yesterday that College Humor's Sarah Schneider has been hired as a writer at "Saturday Night Live" for this upcoming season. Schn...

Photo courtesy of http://zoice.com/ It was a day like any other, only this one started with an unusual classified ad in the Hollywood trade paper, ...

Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the 1979 movie, was ground breaking for many reasons. It was, for instance, the first movie created from the popular St...

As a frequent collaborator with Sacks, I decided to turn the tables and interview him about his own craft, his theory about OCD and comedy, and, inevitably, Milton Berle's penis.

Humorists and comedians are a curious bunch. Quixotic by nature, they want so desperately to live in a world of decency, fairness and goodness, and in Stewart's case, in a world where the media grew some cajones.