Dane Cook has a lot of comedic talents, but traditional joke-telling isn’t one of them. The setup/punchline approach to stand-up is “not my strong suit because I have this physical element,” he told ...

Have you heard the one about a comedian making a joke about a tragedy—say, a theater shooting that left 12 dead and more than 50 injured—less than a week after the event? Yeah, the initial joke wasn’t ...