On Monday, comedian Beth Stelling revealed via Instagram that she had been raped, as well as verbally and physically abused by her ex-boyfriend.

In 2014, Leslie Jones made headlines as a new Saturday Night Live member by delivering an incendiary joke about slavery. The bit received mixed reviews, but Jones, as it turned out, didn’t care; she’s funny, she knows it, and she spent decades fighting for her success.

Comedies about naive Americans in the Middle East have been frequently attempted, but infrequently successful—it is all too easy to resort to stereotypes, to offensively make light of victims of real tragedy. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot could be the first to succeed where other studio films have flopped.

MADtv, the sketch comedy series that ran from 1995 to 2009 on Fox and launched the careers of Keegan-Michael Key, Alex Borstein and Ike Barinholtz, will return for a 20th anniversary special reuniting many of its cast members.

In comedian Chelsea Handler’s newest project, a four-part documentary series entitled Chelsea Does, no subject remains undone.

Any good comedian knows that if there is something you hate about yourself (or rather when, for otherwise you wouldn’t be a comedian), you turn it into a joke.

Welcome to Big Time Small-Time Dicks, a regular column on The Slot that explores local politicians, small-town scandals, and everything else making life miserable on a local level. Know a small time person who is a big time dick we should feature? Email us.

We’re swiftly heading towards the end of 2015, which means much of the hard work we did earlier this year organizing our clothes via Konmari method have since gone to shit. Many of us have returned to our hoarding ways and our once immaculately-folded socks have reversed back to a state of being brutally balled-up.

In his latest on-camera appearance as Mom, the busy mother character who’s never quite sure whether or not she’s getting enough calcium, actor Cole Escola shares the dangers of sugar, women named after shells, and warning shots.

Amy Schumer’s set for her inaugural HBO special buttressed my confidence in a number of my recent decisions. First, any prickles of guilt attached to last night’s spicy beer nuts and prosecco alchemized into third-wave feminist defiance. She also confirmed my suspicion that moving to Los Angeles would mean certain…

Jolly old Tracy Morgan is steadily returning to form, first with a surprise appearance at the Emmys and now hitting the comedy stage for the first time since his crash.

A gravel-voiced female troubadour warbles nonsense words as detectives exchange intense glances, a SWAT team ambushes a crime scene, and a dog—nothing out of the ordinary here—drives a car. No, these aren’t scenes from season three of True Detective. It’s the trailer for the new cop comedy Angie Tribeca, starring…

For Tina Fey fans who’ve been wishing for their queen to bring something fresh to network television, here’s some good news for this Saturday: CBS has picked up the pilot for a new Fey-produced comedy. The untitled series is about an athlete who drives his family and friends crazy after he suddenly retires.

This week on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver took on the destructive language surrounding the refugee crisis in Europe.

Perhaps you stumbled across a new and conspicuous Vanity Fair spread today. You know, the one featuring a photograph of all of the current late-night television hosts. You might even have noticed a striking similarity uniting said hosts. If you look closely, you’ll see that—I know this is a surprise—they’re ALL male!…

John Oliver announced on Sunday that Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption, the official megachurch of Last Week Tonight, will have to close because they were receiving too much semen in the mail.

Erin and Sara Foster, well-connected siblings and stars of VH1’s surprisingly great Barely Famous, gave Vanity Fair an irritable tour of Erin’s Beverly Hills townhouse (“It’s an apartment,” Sara corrects Erin. “I just don’t want to look like a liar when you guys come in and see that it’s clearly not a townhouse”).

Riding high off the fumes of friendship, America’s sweethearts Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer, are currently writing a screenplay together. The two actresses—who became fast friends after meeting only a couple of months ago—have teamed up to pen a comedy in which they will play sisters.

Tig Notaro has had a tumultuous few years. In a period of just four months in 2012, she was diagnosed with an intestinal disease and breast cancer, had a double mastectomy, dealt with her mother’s death and ended a relationship. Just three years later, she is killing it: she is the star of two separate documentaries…

The first time I told a rape joke, I was on a small comedy tour, at an open mic in Salt Lake City.