Emerson College and the Television Academy Foundation’s The Interviews: An Oral History of Television formed a partnership in 2017 to catalog Emerson's collection of taped interviews with renowned comedians, writers, producers, and directors - making the American Comedy Archives at Emerson College available to audiences worldwide.
The American Comedy Archives was established at Emerson College in 2005, with support from the late Ted Cutler, Emerson trustee emeritus, alumnus, and arts philanthropist, and spearheaded by Bill Dana, Emerson alumnus and comedian who conducted many of the interviews for the American Comedy Archives’ oral history collection. Supported by the partnership with The Interviews and Emerson’s Center for Comedic Arts, each year taped interviews in the American Comedy Archives collection will be catalogued and posted to The Interviews' website. The collaboration between Emerson College and The Interviews will be ongoing to continue co-producing new interviews for the site.
