“Nothing is funnier than unhappiness,” says a character in Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” and “Why this farce, day after day?” becomes a refrain in the enigmatic dialogue. These are signs of the humor ...

Picture a cross between Monty Python and Ingmar Bergman, and you've got a general idea of the singular sensibility at play in Swedish director Roy Andersson's mouthful of a philosophical comedy "A ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The most common explanation among people who critically engage with absurdist internet humor is to ...

Five years after his feature debut “All This Victory” took the Grand Prize and the audience award at Venice’s Critics’ Week, Lebanese filmmaker Ahmad Ghossein is gearing up to shoot his next film. The ...

Whatever its title may evoke, Colombian director Simón Mesa Soto’s “A Poet” plays more like a tall tale than a cinematic poem. The film, which won the jury prize at the Un Certain Regard section at ...

Some Gen Zers have openly mocked millennial humor as being cringe and outdated. Meanwhile millennials have begun appealing to Reddit for help as they're baffled by the humor behind Gen Z memes. Gen Z ...

Eugène Ionesco is considered one of the major figures of theater of the absurd, the French dramatic trend of the 1940s and ’50s that stressed the absurdity of the modern condition: life’s lack of ...

Despite its reputation for being strange and even frustrating, absurdist theater has long had an audience. Director Jerry Casper is not exactly sure it will find one at RCTC — but he doesn’t much care ...

Richard Eder, the former book critic for The Times, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. If instead of tracing back to an oxygen-producing single cell our evolution had started ...

In drama, as in comedy, timing is everything. Jon Greene, director of “The Dumb Waiter” (through March 17 at the Fortress of Lushington, 2215 Burgundy St.), knows this as well as anyone. Greene’s ...