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 ...

Many of the year’s best comedy specials share a reflective sense of mid-career reconsideration. The most striking of these is ...

The “Funny Is Female” Festival is a four-day celebration of women in comedy featuring 55 stand-out comics from across the U.S. and beyond. And it’s all happening at Comedy Plex. Stand-up comedian Maxi ...

Stand-up comedy is finally back on China’s TV screens after a yearlong absence — and a new generation of performers has come out swinging. The scene went into a deep freeze last May following ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Dynamics is set to release Dom Irrera: Live from Las Vegas, the final special from beloved comics’ comic Dom Irrera, across platforms on July 29, with the special debuting in album ...

Before there was The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a “boy’s club,” the truth ...

Stand-up comedy has long been a boy's club, but thankfully, that's starting to change. I'm not saying you still can't enjoy classics like Jerry Seinfeld, laugh at observational comedians such as John ...