For years, the ‘fat funny friend’ was one of the few ways fat women were allowed to exist on screen. Loud, self-deprecating, endlessly available for mockery, the fat actress was never the lead unless ...

Ian Karmel spent eight years writing for “The Late Late Show With James Corden” and for much of that time, he willingly fed the host a steady diet of fat jokes. Karmel knew whereof he quipped — he’d ...

In the first episode of the romantic-comedy series Too Much, heartbroken 30-something Jessica (Megan Stalter) breaks into an apartment she used to live in with her ex, Zev (Michael Zegen). We know ...

Comedy writer Ian Karmel spent most of his life making fun of his weight, starting at a very young age. "Being a kid is terrifying — and if you can be the funny fat kid, at least that's a role," ...