Streaming has become a great home for stand-up comedy, and Netflix's lineup in particular includes 15 of the best stand-up ...

Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? is the latest fictional film to mine humor and pathos from life on the stand-up stage—but ...

Stand-up comedy is so much more than telling jokes with a microphone in hand. For seasoned masters of the art, it’s an exploration of everything right and wrong with humanity, all at once, from the ...

On a recent Saturday night on Sunset Boulevard, a pair of black 1940s low-riders guided the diverse, sold-out crowd into the Comedy Store. Cypress Hill hung out in the green room. Los Angeles ...

On platforms like TikTok and Instagram, where comedians post clips to grow their following, captions have become the norm because they spur discoverability, engagement, and accessibility — even though ...

How did comedians “getting real” become such a common trope in TV and movies? By Jason Zinoman Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A stand-up comic, tired of hiding behind jokes, jolts the ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

In the UK, new schemes to support mental health are introducing to people an unexpected skill: stand-up comedy. Mohan Gupta had never dreamed of becoming a comedian. Born in India and educated in the ...

Corey Martin Craig wants your kid to be a troublemaker. Well, sort of. Craig believes in the philosophy of good trouble, and teaching children to harness that energy and turn it into punchlines. The ...

Film stars Omotola Jalade Ekeinde and Sharon Ooja were two of the celebs that graced Bovi’s comedy show, which was held at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre in Hollywood on Friday, April 19. The ...