If you’re like me, then you would have been proven wrong or severely let down by too many of 2025’s stand-up comedy specials. Which made those who did step up this year stand out that much more. I’ve ...

Streaming has become a great home for stand-up comedy, and Netflix's lineup in particular includes 15 of the best stand-up ...

Nanjiani takes full advantage of the unusual position this special occupies in his career, and he uses the opportunity to tell a story about the past several years in culture that is as much about the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

In the realm of comedy, the boundaries of humour have expanded beyond traditional jokes and stand-up routines. With the surge of social media influencers, comedy has splintered into a tapestry of ...

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 ...