Every 2nd and 4th Saturday comedian Ben Asher presents a tasting of what the NYC-area's best stand-up comics are cooking up ...

Many, no doubt would recognize his low, rolling monotone voice from his long-standing role as the wheelchair-bound police ...

Long Islanders are devoting nights and weekends to it, around their normal jobs, across bars, clubs and bigger venues in the ...

Joe Kwaczala is a Los Angeles-based comedian and the writer-star of the mockumentary American Comic, which follows two ...

Trevor Wallace, Damon Wayans Jr. and Melissa Villaseñor have stand-up shows slated for Chicago this summer. (Getty photos by Chelsea Guglielmino / Frazer Harrison / Emma McIntyre) ...

Kids Above All’s Annual Stand Up For Kids Comedy Night is back, featuring four well-known comedians including, two from right here in Chicago. It will be on Thursday, June 5, with a cocktail ...

Deadline this morning brings you Comedy Means Business, a new newsletter and companion podcast that will offer a deep dive ...

The comedian has announced Rick Mercer's Stand-Up for Canada Comedy Tour, a nationwide trek that will bring the laughs to 21 cities across 10 provinces this fall.

What is it that has made Nate Bargatze one of the most popular comedians of his time? Some might argue it is the Tennessee ...

Actor and Evanston native Jeremy Piven, seen here performing in Miami, is coming home to Chicago for two stand-up shows June 6 at the Vic Theatre. Ted Castillo SHARE ...

You can be there when Piven records his stand-up special on Friday night. It's a performance tour getting rave reviews. There are shows at The Vic Theatre on Sheffield Avenue at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m.

Officials at the University of Chicago Crime Lab's Policing Leadership Academy brought in members of storied improv theater ...