The best Netflix stand-up specials in August 2026 include new additions ‘Rory Scovel: Show Must Go On’ and ‘Kelsey Cook: Happy Hour’ ...

Chinese comedian Xiao Pa has drawn on a difficult childhood with a father who married repeatedly to tackle painful ...

A look at the criticism, stereotypes, and double standards surrounding women in stand-up comedy, and why the debate continues to divide audiences.

Believe it or not, comedy has long been a tool for Black women; used an instrument to tell uncomfortable truths, debunk narratives, and connect generations through laughter. But behind every punchline ...

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 ...

Mia Almas lives a double life. She works as a fact-checker for a news publication by day and as a stand-up comedian by night. And then one day, she discovers her Palestinian grandmother's diary, ...

Meet the women using microphones, stages and a foreign language to make China laugh by turning cultural pressure into ...

EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central, long one of stand-up’s most important institutional launchpads, is returning to talent incubation with the launch of Comedy Central Stand-Up Selects, a new series of short ...

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 ...