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 ...

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 ...

Arnett, who co-wrote the script with Cooper, plays Alex Novak, a father of two who is facing an impending divorce from his ...

HBO ruled stand-up for decades. If you were a comedian, landing an hourlong special on HBO was one of the biggest signs that you were a success—confirmation that all the time spent on stage and on the ...

For decades, the premier place to find your favorite comedians in action on stage and at their absolute best while never leaving the comfort of your own home was HBO. Now, unlike the old days when you ...

Will Arnett is no stranger to performing. But the actor found stand-up comedy "daunting and scary" in his new dramedy "Is ...

The pandemic really put a damper on live stand-up comedy, and by extension, the stand-up comedy special. Much more than any preconceived notion of “cancel culture,” the idea of sitting ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Dynamics, the world’s largest independent stand-up comedy production and distribution company, has launched a 24/7 free ad-supported TV channel dedicated to stand-up on Amazon ...

2020 will always be remembered as the pandemic year, no matter how long COVID drags on, but 2021 will hopefully be the apex of the pandemic’s influence on stand-up comedy. Almost every single special ...