The latest in our series of writers on their most important comfort films is a celebration of Nicolas Cage’s finest action moment

Murder by bone-saw, lashings for rape victims, punishment amputation, jail for satirists … these are the Saudi human rights abuses fuelling the fury at the likes of Louis CK, Dave Chappelle and Jimmy Carr. How have they responded?

The controversial comedian makes a plea for empathy from the returning president in a strong week for the show

Thirty years after his death, the Texan who set out to ‘topple idols’ remains an outlaw truth-teller for many but his raging material can land with a clunk

Netflix’s latest specials show two once-funny comedians continuing to punch down in a desperate, angry quest for relevance

An abridged season, due to the writers’ strike, offered up an uneven selection of skits but also some undeniable highlights

The return of the divisive comic brings jabs at Kanye West’s fall from grace and a look forward to House of the Dragon season two

They are arguably the two greatest US standups of their generation – and both topical for not always lovely reasons. Could this double whammy possibly live up to the hype?