No matter how quick the wit, no stand-up comic starts out a success. Forget the top: on the way to the bottom rung, comics need to endure endless open-mic tryouts, log thousands of miles for little or ...

Stand-up comedy has been engrained in American television since practically the very beginning. Comics would emerge from the clubs, step out on late night TV, and deliver their best material in front ...

Netflix features hours of comedy from stand-up names you know and some you don’t (yet), including a new special from Taylor Tomlinson and Marcello Hernández making his Netflix debut. These are the 26 ...

Bo Burnham sings into a microphone while wearing sunglasses in a starry background in Bo Burnham: Inside - Netflix Netflix has become a premier platform for streaming modern comedy specials, with some ...

Every month, Netflix seems to have brand-new stand-up comedy specials ready to go. Now that we’re four months into the year, ...

If Tom Hanks is known as the “everyman” of movies — you know, the ordinary guys, so approachable and unpretentious that just about everybody can relate to him in one way or another — then Jim Gaffigan ...

Rebeca Trejo riffs on her growing up in Puerto Rico with Venezuelan roots and life as a young Latina mom in Denver, and she’s performed her stand-up comedy for the Netflix Is a Joke and the High ...

Joel Kim Booster, Tig Notaro, Ali Wong, Hannibal Buress, and John Mulaney all doing stand-up comedy in a composite image - Static Media Stand-up comedy has been engrained in American television since ...