Andrea Forcum, Gaspare Randazzo and Philip Lindsay may be teachers by day, but they're selling out comedy clubs by night.

Stand-up comedy has transformed from smoky clubs to viral clips, blending live performance with digital culture. From heartfelt biopics to meme-worthy moments, comedy now thrives across multiple ...

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 ...

After everything that happened in 2024, and heading into the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, you might have expected comedians to either reckon with the wreckage of the recent past and their ...

For someone best known as an actor, Bradley Cooper’s core interest as a filmmaker is perhaps unsurprising. Thus far, he has been entirely consumed by examinations of performance—first digging into a ...

Chris Tucker, comedian-turned-actor-returned-comedian, will embark on his first major stand-up tour in over a decade next month. Dubbed “The Legends Tour,” the 30-date trek kicks off Sept. 8 in ...