From seasoned pros like Chris Rock, Ali Wong, and Adam Sandler, to relative newcomers like Nicole Byer, Dusty Slay, and Jacqueline Novak, here are the 25 best stand-up specials to watch on Netflix ...

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 ...

We all need a laugh sometimes, and when it comes to stand-up comedy, Netflix has amassed a spectacular library of specials for just about every sense of humor under the sun. We all know the streaming ...

There is no genre more near and dear to my heart than comedy. The skills necessary to make others laugh -- whether live and in-person or through a screen -- are a unique and beautiful combination that ...

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 comic Nimesh Patel sometimes asks his audience: Who is here because of TikTok? “The first thing I noticed was the diversity,” he says. His TikTok videos brought out comedy fans in their 20s ...

The comedian performed alongside Beth Stelling, Adam Sandler, Sarah Silverman and more at the Largo on Feb. 15 Randy Holmes via Getty Ellen DeGeneres has returned to her stand-up roots! On Thursday, ...