Most of us aren’t hilarious or gorgeous or famous, and “Saturday Night Live” gives us access to all of those things.

But one building block of that episode has survived for nearly 50 years: the commercial parody that follows the host’s monologue. Back in October of 1975, George Carlin’s routine about the differences ...

Adam Douglas Thompson’s one-panel comics are proof that you don’t need much to deliver a punchline. With minimalistic ...