1. Know Your Audience: You must tailor your humor to the couple and the crowd. An excellent wedding speech must be written so ...

Carol Leifer, the prolific sixty-eight-year-old comedian and television writer (“S.N.L.,” “Seinfeld,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Hacks,” etc.), has many skills. One, perhaps unsurprisingly, is ...

“Speech & Debate,” onstage in Oviedo from the Ensemble Company, walks its tightrope of tone with focused precision under the direction of Matthew MacDermid. This is true dark comedy — it’s very funny.