Yesterday afternoon, the trailer for Judd Apatow’s upcoming biographical documentary about late stand-up comedy legend Norm ...

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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 ...

Stand-up comedy was born on the vaudeville stage but came of age in the Catskills. The Borsht Belt comics, whose material was ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mort Sahl’s album At Sunset has been referred to as “the earliest example of modern stand-up comedy on record,” but although it was recorded in 1955, it wasn’t released until 1958. In between then, ...