Many of the year’s best comedy specials share a reflective sense of mid-career reconsideration. The most striking of these is ...

The funniest funny people of the last 25 years - as chosen by the bookers and heads of comedy clubs, festivals and 'The ...

With ticket sales tripling in the last decade, stand-up comedy is booming. But not all comics are feeling a tailwind. New comics are under pressure to adapt their work to social media. And those who ...

Mike Epps’ story includes a Vin Diesel-directed film debut, Richard Pryor portrayals, rap samples, and a real-life unicycle ...

In the book, Apatow, 57, ventures through his youth on Long Island and how his first exposure to stand-up comedy was at Westbury Music Fair where he saw Totie Fields, a friend of his grandparents.

Inspired by The One Show Challenge Squad, our very own cook Briony May Williams has challenged herself for Children in Need, having one week to prepare a stand-up comedy routine. After some advice ...

The comedian doesn't know if he'll do another comedy special following his 13th, which premiered on HBO earlier this year: "I feel like that's a good body of work." ...

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