"We wanted to open a place where everyone intersects and takes care of each other and has fun," Tara DeFrancisco said.

Comedians in Syria see a new moment for their art form. With the regime that stifled dissent under former President Bashar al ...

Tickets for Common Knowledge go on sale tomorrow, June 6, 2025, at 10 am. Actor and comedian Rosie O’Donnell has announced her new stand-up show, Common Knowledge, to premiere in Dublin on June 27. It ...

Joe List's fourth comedy special, "Small Ball," debuted in theaters nationwide for a special one night only event on May 21.

It was like old home week at the LionHeart Hall on May 31, when stand-up comics Aaron Woodall and Spence Roper appeared for a ...

The Sandusky amusement park has announced that it is shaking up its live entertainment options this summer. For the first time ever, Cedar Point is planning to put on a comedy show. The Palace Theatre ...

Sanskar Bharti, which works to promote Indian art forms, expressed deep concern over the declining level of performance and content in stand-up and other comedy forms in recent times. The ...

However, the concept of stand-up comedy, an individual armed with a microphone and delivering witty and observational humour to a live audience, has been a foreign notion until relatively recently.

In Indianapolis, Cam O’Connor is a pioneer of placing stand-up comedy in nontraditional settings. O’Connor has told jokes and produced shows at bars, pizzerias and coffee shops since 2011 ...

A comedian and actor, Olu Salako, better known as SLK has averred that stand-up comedy is not endangered in the age of social media. In an interview with Saturday Beats, he said”, I don’t ...

Comedy Camisado came after the routine that launched a thousand ships. It was in 2014 that Hannibal Buress went viral for a routine included in his stand-up act about sexual assault allegations ...

In March 2024, Re-educated had its first ticketed stand-up only show at a 140-seat comedy club. The first half of the sold-out performance was in English. The second, Chinese. It was bilingual ...