Comedy Classroom provides a brilliant framework for young people to explore comedy writing. The Red Nose Day Comedy Classroom competition with Blue Peter is now closed, so please do not enter. This ...

"Comedy Classroom is an amazing opportunity for teenagers to get writing and start making people laugh. For me, the wonderful thing about writing comedy is that the best jokes and stories come from ...

Since its first entry on the comedy scene in the 1950s, improvisational comedy, otherwise know as improv, has changed the world of comedy. As a former elementary school teacher turned professor of ...

Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum opens with the phrase: “Tragedy tomorrow, comedy tonight.” He seems to promise a performance free of troubles and the burdens of ...

I'm poking fun at how reading aloud to a classroom can feel like an epic production—sometimes it really does take forever! This video captures the energy and humor teachers bring to read aloud ...

Some of the UK’s top comedy talent, including comedian Charlie Higson, Kerry Howard, Marcus Brigstocke and David Walliams, are calling on secondary school students to become classroom jokers for a new ...

When Mo Amer was nine, he left his home in Kuwait with his mother and sister. "It was a tough time," he told Ophira Eisenberg, host of NPR's Ask Me Another at the Bell House in Brooklyn. "We fled war ...

From the English teacher who recites a poem to help memorize prepositions to the science teacher’s monologue about the importance of conservation, teachers are often the first performers we encounter ...