2023 brought a slew of highly anticipated returns and splashy specials from some of comedy’s biggest names as well as a healthy injection of fresh voices to a form that can grow stale when it feels ...

Madonna has conquered music, movies, fashion, and pop culture. She even tried her hand at stand-up comedy. According to Will ...

As part of a slew of creator-led programming aimed at Madison Avenue, the Julian Shapiro-Barnum-hosted late-night show 'Outside Tonight' was unveiled as weekly series set in New York City parks and on ...

Meghan Walbert is Lifehacker's Managing Editor. She has a degree in journalism and has worked at Lifehacker as a writer and editor since 2018, covering parenting, foster care, online child safety, and ...

A year ago, Lea’h Sampson felt like everything was crashing. Though she had been doing stand-up comedy for six years, she was hitting a wall. Her jokes weren’t getting her booked, even in local comedy ...

Earlier this month, Jeff Foxworthy released his final stand-up comedy special. It's not on Netflix or Hulu or even YouTube, but a specialty streamer not particularly known for comedy - Fox Nation. The ...

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 ...

It was a banner year for stand-up fans in 2023, with the number of hourlong specials released clearing more than 200 titles. Why such record-breaking output? For one, following the 2021 reopening of ...

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 ...

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 ...