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 ...

Hundreds of Beavers is an inventive comedy movie that generated a lot of buzz in 2024. Hundreds and hundreds of stand-up comedy specials?! That’s a lot to chew on, even for the most ardent comedy nerd ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...