To make comedy specials special again, Cross says performers must break rules and take risks, rejecting slick, expensive productions that feel impersonal and phoned-in.

Audience reactions are a staple of standup specials. But they’re a strange device when you take a closer look.

You can’t quite call what Julio Torres does stand-up comedy. The star of the movie Problemista and the HBO shows Los Espookys ...

The Bergamot Comedy Festival returns to the Crow in Santa Monica with a mission to nurture not just comedians but the ...

Comedian Mark Normand explained how social media-fueled partisanship prevents audiences from enjoying comedy as people focus ...

WRONGLY accused “killer” Amanda Knox is doing stand-up comedy as a way of “finding the ability to laugh at the bad things ...

Amanda Knox was wrongly jailed over the murder of University of Leeds student Meredith Kercher, 21, back in 2007 - she has ...

The two will come together for Anaheim’s latest entertainment offering, “Stand Up, Chow Down,” a new, citywide comedy and ...

There are quite a few notable stnad-up comedians coming to Atlanta this spring, ranging from Jeff Foxworthy to Jeremy Piven ...