Comedy is a profession often overlooked and underappreciated. I'd like to see you try to get up in front of a group and crack jokes for 40 minutes. The pressure to make an audience laugh is tough, especially...

“I always make the joke that we call the show ‘Crashing’ not ‘Flourishing’ for a reason,” said comedian Pete Holmes, the creator and star of HBO’s “Crashing,” now in its third season. In...