The jump from comedy club stages to the silver screen isn’t an easy one—but some performers make it look effortless. Before ...

Whether they're delivering sidesplitting laughs or serious character drama, movies about stand-up comedy offer a fascinating look at the profession. Though it seems like there wouldn't be a lot of ...

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

Nowadays, any TikToker with 100,000 followers can get fifteen minutes at the Laugh Factory – until they get bumped by a real comic with 1.4 million fans.No other artistic medium was as radically reorg ...

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 ...

There is no genre more near and dear to my heart than comedy. The skills necessary to make others laugh -- whether live and in-person or through a screen -- are a unique and beautiful combination that ...

Netflix has become a premier platform for streaming modern comedy specials, with some of the biggest names in the business launching their shows on the service. This includes a growing number of ...

Lucrative concert touring has become more than a side hustle for global talent gathered in Montreal to show studio scouts, streaming execs and club bookers how their comedy connects with audiences. By ...