Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the High Plains Comedy Festival returns for its 10th edition, Denver audiences can catch dozens of stand-up sets from 100 local and national comics, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Comedian Nate Jackson's debut comedy special "Nate Jackson: Super Funny" premieres on Netflix July 8. (Christina House / Los ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stand-up comedy has a crowd work problem, and I don’t see it letting up any time soon. Crowd work used to be one of many tools of ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Eventually, on the feed of every social media app are clips of popular comedians doing some crowd work, but your favorite comic’s favorite crowd-working comic is veteran ...

It was a moment that could have ended the night for a lesser stand-up comic. Comic and actor Nate Jackson was on the stage of his Super Funny Comedy Club in Tacoma, joking with audience members, ...

Matt Rife is a “comedian” who, often, uses his crowd work to make people think he’s good at stand-up. So when his stand-up specials inevitably failed, people realized quickly that he isn’t as funny as ...

TikTok has a mixed record when it comes to comedy. The app helped launch the beloved Brian Jordan Alveraz—but also the controversial Matt Rife. Meanwhile, it has given rise to the 20-something ...

You know the audience reaction shot — that shift in focus from the comic telling a joke… …to the crowd laughing. It’s such a common part of comedy specials ...

Comedian Nate Jackson's debut comedy special "Nate Jackson: Super Funny" premieres on Netflix July 8. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) There’s a reason Nate Jackson’s debut Netflix special ...