What if a stand-up comedian walked onstage only to find the audience was 50 bald men? Or 50 clowns, or nuns, or bikers or ...

It was more structurally and tonally ambitious than most specials at the time, and Galifianakis was less well known than 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 ...

Netflix has been producing and distributing original stand-up specials for well over a decade, with no indication that they are slowing down. In 2024 alone, the streaming service released more than 40 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Dynamics, the world’s largest independent stand-up comedy production and distribution company, has launched a 24/7 free ad-supported TV channel dedicated to stand-up on Amazon ...

Stand-up comedian Mark Normand talks the way he performs: fast, loose and irreverent, with a punchline lurking around every corner. With a baby at home and a new Netflix special on the way, Normand ...

Kountry Wayne discusses his new special 'Nostalgia,' his clean comedy identity, unshakeable faith and how his 10 kids fuel ...

Jamie Foxx started his career as a performer on the sketch comedy series 'In Living Color' and has filmed three stand-up comedy specials Michael Reaves/Getty Images Jamie Foxx is ready to bring the ...

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 ...

Amanda Knox is doing stand-up comedy "to laugh at the bad things that have happened." American Amanda's show features jokes about her time in an Italian jail after she was jailed over the murder of ...

Upward of 150 stand-up specials were released in 2023. That’s a lot — much more than a generation ago, when it was hardly guaranteed that a comedian would ever film one if they weren’t one of the top ...