Actor and comedian Jana Bernard, who's appeared on NETFLIX and Peacock, organized and hosted a comedy show on October 6 at The Second City New York that featured a line-up of stand-up comics, Proceeds ...

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 ...

A year ago, Lea’h Sampson felt like everything was crashing. Though she had been doing stand-up comedy for six years, she was hitting a wall. Her jokes weren’t getting her booked, even in local comedy ...

Hundreds of Beavers is an inventive comedy movie that generated a lot of buzz in 2024. Hundreds and hundreds of stand-up comedy specials?! That’s a lot to chew on, even for the most ardent comedy nerd ...

There is no genre more near and dear to my heart than comedy. The skills necessary to make others laugh -- whether live and in-person or through a screen -- are a unique and beautiful combination that ...

It was 2018. Gavitte was supposed to deliver the eulogy of a man he said had “spent most of his life crawling into engines.” His father had worked at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York until he was ...

We all need a laugh sometimes, and when it comes to stand-up comedy, Netflix has amassed a spectacular library of specials for just about every sense of humor under the sun. We all know the streaming ...

Jenny Slate was among the stellar comics that added to the greater gamut of stand-up excellence this past year, with “Seasoned Professional.” (Rebecca Rotenberg / Flickr) Sometimes I feel like a ...

For all of the comedians who complained they couldn’t joke about anything anymore, that sure didn’t stop them and everyone else from joking about everything this year. When the calendar year finally ...