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 ...

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The jump from comedy club stages to the silver screen isn’t an easy one—but some performers make it look effortless. Before they were lighting up movie screens or headlining hit TV shows, some of ...

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 ...

Stand-up comic Nimesh Patel sometimes asks his audience: Who is here because of TikTok? “The first thing I noticed was the diversity,” he says. His TikTok videos brought out comedy fans in their 20s ...

Fresh off hosting "Saturday Night Live," comedian and Mechanicsburg native Shane Gillis has reached a deal with Netflix to stream a new comedy series that will premiere in May. He's also getting ...

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Netflix has become a premier platform for streaming modern comedy specials, with some of the biggest names in the business launching their shows on the service. This includes a growing number of ...

The comedian performed alongside Beth Stelling, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman and more at the Largo on Feb. 15 Randy Holmes via Getty Ellen DeGeneres has returned to her stand-up roots! On Thursday, ...

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There is no genre more near and dear to my heart than comedy. The skills necessary to make others laugh -- whether live and in-person or through a screen -- are a unique and beautiful combination that ...