Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apparently, they look inward. The best specials of the year aren’t political; they’re hilarious, heartfelt meditations on deeply ...

Nate Bargazte might be the most famous person in America where a good 60% of the commonwealth doesn’t know his name.

Whether they're delivering sidesplitting laughs or serious character drama, movies about stand-up comedy offer a fascinating look at the profession. Though it seems like there wouldn't be a lot of ...

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Stand-up comedy has been engrained in American television since practically the very beginning. Comics would emerge from the clubs, step out on late night TV, and deliver their best material in front ...

Nate Bargatze, Leanne Morgan and Dusty Slay are leading a family-friendly scene. Unlike earlier stand-ups, they don’t look down at their cursing peers. By Jason Zinoman Reporting from Nashville 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 ...

July 29 (UPI) --Dusty Slay's second full-length Netflix special, Wet Heat, is streaming Tuesday, and the stand-up comedian says it wasn't always clear to him that comedy was the right path. Slay, 43, ...

After everything that happened in 2024, and heading into the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, you might have expected comedians to either reckon with the wreckage of the recent past and their ...

Sooner or later, nearly anyone who's made a name for themselves in stand-up comedy gets at least one shot at leading a movie (it’s now Matt Rife’s turn). But there are only a select few truly ...