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 ...

Hundreds of Beavers is an inventive comedy movie that generated a lot of buzz in 2024. Hundreds and hundreds of stand-up comedy specials?! That’s a lot to chew on, even for the most ardent comedy nerd ...

Next month, a handful of stand-up comedians are heading to Netflix in a brand-new special. Today, the streamer announced a multi-comic special entitled Verified Stand-Up. It will feature 10 comedians ...

There was a time when the path to comedy success was relatively fixed. Comedians would grind in clubs until they got an opportunity to perform on late-night TV, and then they’d get a development deal ...

Comedy fans in 2024 have thousands of stand-up specials available at their fingertips. With dozens of new releases coming out each month across Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and YouTube, the competition has ...

2023 brought a slew of highly anticipated returns and splashy specials from some of comedy’s biggest names as well as a healthy injection of fresh voices to a form that can grow stale when it feels ...

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Edd Hedges returned home after a charity stand-up performance to find a murderer looking for him. In 2015, he woke up to a banging at the door and at the end of his bed, staring ...

Atul Khatri, after two decades in IT, embraced stand-up comedy in his 40s, finding it a way to break free from burnout. He ...

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 ...

SHANGHAI — As Yang Mengqi stepped onto the stage for her first stand-up show in Shanghainese, nervous questions swirled in her head: Would her jokes land, or would the nuances of a dialect rarely used ...