Streaming has become a great home for stand-up comedy, and Netflix's lineup in particular includes 15 of the best stand-up ...

Dave Chappelle returns with a bold Netflix stand-up special that blends comedy, history, free speech debates, and personal ...

If you’re like me, then you would have been proven wrong or severely let down by too many of 2025’s stand-up comedy specials. Which made those who did step up this year stand out that much more. I’ve ...

Deadline this morning brings you Comedy Means Business, a new newsletter and companion podcast that will offer a deep dive into the world of comedy, with a particular emphasis on stand-up. Why focus ...

No other comedy special this year accomplishes quite the same mixture of emotion that Jordan Jensen’s does. It is so closely written, so thoroughly and carefully conceived as a window into Jensen’s ...

Eulogies are comparably easy though. The audience at a funeral is supposed to remain silent, the emotional tone is set from ...

Bradley Cooper cast real stand-up comedians Chloe Radcliffe and Jordan Jensen from NYC's iconic Comedy Cellar to ensure the ...

After hitting it big in Hollywood with projects like Silicon Valley and The Big Sick — first, an actor, and then behind the camera — Kumail Nanjiani‘s career has come full circle. For the first time ...

Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? is the latest fictional film to mine humor and pathos from life on the stand-up stage—but ...

EXCLUSIVE: Azhar Usman, a pioneer of Muslim stand-up comedy dubbed “America’s Funniest Muslim” by CNN, is set to release his first solo stand-up project, The Islamic States of America, on his YouTube ...

Steve Harvey stands by his decision to quit stand-up comedy over ten years ago. The “Family Feud” host, 68, appeared on Tuesday’s episode of “The Pivot Podcast” and was asked what “acceptable jokes” ...