Jim Gaffigan will receive Variety’s inaugural Comedy Vanguard Award presented by the New York Comedy Festival.

On a chilly night in Doncaster, there’s a 57-year-old man with self-confessed coronary artery disease dressed in a ...

Streaming on Prime is the true crime series "Hollywood Hustler: Glitz, Glam, Scam". Zack Horwitz built a Ponzi scheme to fund his Hollywood dreams, faking wealth until his deception collapsed leaving ...

How did I get here—sitting in Saudi Arabia, listening to Louis C.K. do jokes about Barely Legal magazine? Honestly, I thought ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. “Leslie Jones: Life Part 2,” the latest stand-up comedy special from the ...

As the sun sets every Thursday, the front room of Black Apple Cider in Springdale transforms. In between the red brick walls of the cosy cidery's front room, employees line up chairs between four-top ...

Jeanne DeRosa is a middle school math teacher in Natick who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Her comedic persona, "MAD Barbie," focuses on her life as a middle-aged, divorced woman. DeRosa began her ...

Dave Chappelle raised eyebrows over the weekend after he used his set at the inaugural Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia to blast the status of free speech in the United States. Per The New York ...

The debate over limits on free speech in comedy has taken an urgent, international flavor this week. Some of the biggest names in stand-up are vigorously defending their participation in the ...

“Saturday Night Live” star Michael Che will perform at State Theatre Center for the Arts in Easton on Dec. 10, 2025, bringing his stand-up comedy to the Lehigh Valley. The comedian, currently in his ...

The first-ever celebrity edition of The Traitors is officially upon us, with plenty of backstabbing and sleuthing promised by BBC producers. An all-star version of the game-show phenomenon saw 19 ...