New York Times: Best Comedy of 2025
Dec. 11, 2025
Many savvy observers declared the death of the late-night talk show this year. Then Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel attracted more attention than any stand-up with a special. The most talked- about comedy festival took place in Saudi Arabia. Marc Maron stopped podcasting. Amy Poehler became a YouTuber. 2025 was a weird one. Here are some highlights.
Funniest Spoof of the Left
‘Slam Frank’
This hip-hop Holocaust production (at Asylum NYC) brought an edgelord, terminally online aesthetic to the American musical. Its creator, Andrew Fox, who reimagines Anne Frank as a “real marginalized person,” a pansexual Latina named Anita Franco, aims to be elusive in his politics but make no mistake: His core, animating target is identity-politics excesses.
