Read an exclusive excerpt from Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt:. There’s only one rule in Maz Kanata’s castle. (Well, okay, there are dozens, even hundreds of rules. If you get up on stage ...

Code Switch talks to comedians Aparna Nancherla, Brian Bahe and Maz Jobrani about how and why race makes an appearance in their jokes. Plus, one of our own reveals her early-career dabbling in comedy.

Bar matron Maz Kanata, introduced in "The Force Awakens," has her roots in director J.J. Abrams' childhood.

Maz Jobrani is an actor and comedian whose comedy draws on growing up as an Iranian-American in California.. He's one of the founding members of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour. In 2007, he headlined ...