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2023 brought a slew of highly anticipated returns and splashy specials from some of comedy’s biggest names as well as a healthy injection of fresh voices to a form that can grow stale when it feels ...

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 ...

Comedy fans in 2024 have thousands of stand-up specials available at their fingertips. With dozens of new releases coming out each month across Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and YouTube, the competition has ...

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 ...

For all of the comedians who complained they couldn’t joke about anything anymore, that sure didn’t stop them and everyone else from joking about everything this year. When the calendar year finally ...

If the previous two years saw live comedy and the production of comedy specials derailed and/or transformed by the pandemic, then this past year found stand-up comedians rejoicing and reveling in ...