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 ...

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Stand-up comic Nimesh Patel sometimes asks his audience: Who is here because of TikTok? “The first thing I noticed was the diversity,” he says. His TikTok videos brought out comedy fans in their 20s ...

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 ...

Prime Video will debut 'Hello Again' this spring, the comedian's first collaboration with the steamer since the 2017 end of series 'One Mississippi.' By Mikey O'Connell Senior Entertainment Editor The ...

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 ...

Jamie Foxx, Chelsea Handler, Seth Meyers, Hasan Minhaj, Sarah Silverman and Roy Wood Jr. deliver a raucous and revealing discussion. By Lacey Rose, Editor Their specials may wade into bleaker ...

The comedian’s YouTube epic, “The Domino Effect,” is nervy humor, with both punches and punchlines that reflect his years in prison. By Jason Zinoman In “The Domino Effect,” a genre-defying ...

After putting out three stand-up specials in three years, Sam Morril took 2023 “off” to work the road and develop his newest hour, which finds him now streaming on Prime Video as an Amazon Original.

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 ...