As part of a slew of creator-led programming aimed at Madison Avenue, the Julian Shapiro-Barnum-hosted late-night show ...

YouTube gathered a group of rising influencers, and Trevor Noah, in New York to show off its latest wares. The Google-owned ...

Daily Show' host Trevor Noah said YouTube, his go-to platform for 20 years, made a natural place to debut his new stand-up special.

The show, curated by Glazer and produced by her company Starrpix, riffs on the concept of a “tight five,” or a five minute stand-up set that’s packed with only the hits. The series is a showcase of ...

One of the first jokes in Gavin Matts’s new YouTube stand-up special, Progression, is about people who use the cliché “All things considered, that’s pretty good” to graft silver linings onto ...

The comedian’s YouTube epic, “The Domino Effect,” is nervy humor, with both punches and punchlines that reflect his years in prison. By Jason Zinoman In “The Domino Effect,” a genre-defying ...

Last week Adult Swim announced that Joe Pera Talks With You would be returning for a third season later this year. That news has sent me back down the rabbit hole of Joe Pera YouTube videos, a rabbit ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 pandemic really put a damper on live stand-up comedy, and by extension, the stand-up comedy special. Much more than any preconceived notion of “cancel culture,” the idea of sitting ...