Reporting from Mumbai, India — A popular comedy troupe’s decision to pull clips of a raunchy performance off the Internet has revived an old question in India. Can the world’s biggest democracy take a ...

Reporting from New Delhi — Shortly before his 2004 suicide, the wry American monologist Spalding Gray was asked after a New York show how his humor was received overseas. He recalled a presentation he ...

For Londoners, who live in a city where one in three inhabitants is foreign-born, there's nothing more banal than exotica. Except, perhaps, for yet another production of a Shakespeare comedy. So it's ...

Jeejaji, the fast-growing Instagram meme account, is redefining what it means to be funny in India — all with a sharp desi twist. With 2.9 million followers and counting, the page has struck a chord ...