I recently saw comedian Nick Kroll perform at Mill Valley’s Throckmorton Theatre. It felt good to laugh — real belly laughs — as he worked on new material in front of the sold-out crowd. After leaving ...

Later that night, Jimmy Kimmel hosted a humdrum episode of his long-running late-night show. In his monologue, he made a few conventional, gimlet-eyed jokes about the administration’s scramble to make ...