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 ...

While the past decade has brought an exponential rise in streaming services, none compare to Netflix’s catalog of stand-up specials. The streamer has become the go-to destination for the most popular ...

Nanjiani takes full advantage of the unusual position this special occupies in his career, and he uses the opportunity to ...

No other comedy special this year accomplishes quite the same mixture of emotion that Jordan Jensen’s does. It is so closely written, so thoroughly and carefully conceived as a window into Jensen’s ...

NEW YORK -- Will Arnett uses stand-up comedy as therapy for his divorce from Laura Dern in the new dramedy "Is This Thing On?

Humor can indeed help cut through and clarify certain feelings and experiences and help people better connect. That can come ...

In the UK, new schemes to support mental health are introducing to people an unexpected skill: stand-up comedy.

There’s nothing funny about Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, but that doesn’t mean Ukrainian comics caught in the war zone are bombing. Shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin began his ...

Discourse Studies, Vol. 22, No. 3 (June 2020), pp. 319-338 (20 pages) This article explores the comedic construction of national identity in Nigerian stand-up comedy. By national identity, I mean ...