Comedian Samay Raina has made a thunderous comeback on YouTube with his latest stand-up special, Still Alive. It has become the most-watched full-length stand-up comedy show worldwide.

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 ...

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 ...

YouTube gathered a group of rising influencers, and Trevor Noah, in New York to show off its latest wares. The Google-owned streamer held its first ever Creator Premieres showcase at the Metrograph ...

No other comedy special this year accomplishes quite the same mixture of emotion that Jordan Jensen’s does. It is so closely written, so thoroughly and carefully conceived as a window into Jensen’s ...

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 ...

The time has finally come: We’re back with our year-end list on the emerging comics you need to know. It’s been another hugely dynamic year for comedy, with 29 stand-up specials from Netflix, 12 ...

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 ...