No matter how quick the wit, no stand-up comic starts out a success. Forget the top: on the way to the bottom rung, comics need to endure endless open-mic tryouts, log thousands of miles for little or ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stand-up comedy has long been a boy's club, but thankfully, that's starting to change. I'm not saying you still can't enjoy ...

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 ...

Nikki Glaser is a kind person. It might sound ironic, considering Variety’s 2025 Creative Impact in Comedy Award recipient is infamous for her savagely funny takedowns, such as her star-making turn on ...

“I think this will go down in history — and it may be ending as we speak — but like, this is the best time that standup comedy has ever had,” he says. “When I started — versus even in the time of ...

No matter how quick the wit, no stand-up comic starts out a success. Forget the top: on the way to the bottom rung, comics need to endure endless open-mic tryouts, log thousands of miles for little or ...