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 ...

For the fourth year in a row, nonprofit theater Kickstand Comedy is hosting a series of free stand-up comedy nights in Portland’s Laurelhurst Park Friday evenings for the entire summer. The first ...

Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? is the latest fictional film to mine humor and pathos from life on the stand-up stage—but ...

For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.

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 ...

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 ...

10-year-old Fabian Morales has been taking classes and performing at Comedy Plex for adult and kid audiences alike. He’ll be taking the stage again this weekend at the kids’ stand-up comedy show.

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 ...

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 ...

2023 brought a slew of highly anticipated returns and splashy specials from some of comedy’s biggest names as well as a healthy injection of fresh voices to a form that can grow stale when it feels ...