Profiles by Trilby Beresford, Kirsten Chuba, Mia Galuppo, Natalie Jarvey, Katie Kilkenny, Michael O'Connell, Bryn Elise Sandberg, Rebecca Sun, Benjamin Svetkey and Lindsay Weinberg.
The 40 Most Powerful People in Comedy 2019
The Hollywood Reporter polls industry insiders and mines the data (because what's more hilarious than polling and data?) to assemble this second annual list of the artists and executives with the clout to make the world laugh, because anyone can have a TV show these days (OK, even that’s pretty hard), but to make the cut in this issue, you have to deliver eyeballs and eye-catching arena grosses. Oh, and being really f***ing funny doesn’t hurt.
