Write it down? The old Hal Roach line has given way to YouTube and many other ways for Irish comics in America to be funny and reach their audience. Mike Farragher talks to the new breed of Irish ...

Another Irish American comedy, The Kids Are Alright, is being released this fall. Will it fall short again, like these US Irish sitcoms always seem to? Word came out of Hollywood this week that ABC ...

Humor is where you find it, usually right next to dumb. In 2023 we had the quantum physics of funny, that is, funny and not funny at the same time; alive and dead as the Schrödinger's cat — only ...

I have a phrase I use with my husband, "Irish funny." It refers to things that are so preposterously bad that they flip around and almost become funny. It's my nod to the dark humor of the Irish, ...