The best Netflix stand-up specials in August 2026 include new additions ‘Rory Scovel: Show Must Go On’ and ‘Kelsey Cook: Happy Hour’ ...

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 comedy is so much more than telling jokes with a microphone in hand. For seasoned masters of the art, it’s an exploration of everything right and wrong with humanity, all at once, from the ...

The comedy industry is undergoing a metamorphosis in 2024. Name-brand comedy venues are opening new locations, beloved local venues are being bought out by megacorporations, and ...

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 ...

Upward of 150 stand-up specials were released in 2023. That’s a lot — much more than a generation ago, when it was hardly guaranteed that a comedian would ever film one if they weren’t one of the top ...