Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’ve been a comedian for more than 15 years, and I’ve always been fascinated by how fictional narratives can never seem to figure ...

"In some ways, stand-up comedy is like a documentary of your own life," explains Mike Birbiglia in his recent special Good One: A Show About Jokes. By that measure, there were some really good – and ...

With ticket sales tripling in the last decade, stand-up comedy is booming. But not all comics are feeling a tailwind. New comics are under pressure to adapt their work to social media. And those who ...

In 2006, when the company was still mailing DVD rentals, Netflix produced a stand-up special for a pre–The Hangover Zach Galifianakis called Live at the Purple Onion. It was more structurally and ...

The 1970s and 1980s are widely considered one of the most important eras in stand-up comedy. Comics like George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, and Richard Pryor dominated the era, becoming some of the ...

Late October and into November is usually when the hibernatin’ begins in earnest around these parts, but a quartet of Calgary ...