Ronny Chieng, Gary Gulman and other comics are experimenting with long buildups that can be audacious … when they work. By Jason Zinoman A joke can be broken down into two sections: The setup, which ...

Comedy isn’t “jokes.” And it isn’t “humor,” either. Well, it is, but it’s so many more things, too. Comedy is the word to describe that amorphous, precious, sacred moment of connection between two ...

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