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

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 ...

To drive this point home right away, Hoffman’s act is extremely NSFW in various ways. She uses all the four-letter words one ...

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

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

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

One of the cultural ideas dominating social discourse in recent years is that of cancel culture. This refers to the idea that people are having their freedom of expression curtailed and risk being ...

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 ...

T.I. officially steps fully into stand-up comedy with his first-ever special, Cheaper Than Therapy, continuing his evolution way past music.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...