In a comedy landscape where Black women remain significantly underrepresented, two best friends from South Central Los ...

Stand-up comedy has long been a boy's club, but thankfully, that's starting to change. I'm not saying you still can't enjoy classics like Jerry Seinfeld, laugh at observational comedians such as John ...

Stand-up comedy is finally back on China’s TV screens after a yearlong absence — and a new generation of performers has come out swinging. The scene went into a deep freeze last May following ...

Think stand-up comedy is intimidating? Try doing it when you're the only woman on the bill. After embracing her passion for stand-up comedy in May 2022, local comic Leah Orth soon found that Baton ...

The Times recently spoke with six women who started stand-up comedy later in life. Their big takeaway: Stand-up comedy is a unique artform because anyone can do it as long as they’re funny. Performing ...

Western University Lecturer Anmol Dutta is teaching a new course titled "Women Aren’t Funny: Feminist Stand-Up Comedy." Dutta ...

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime explores the fictional life of a female stand-up comedian in the late 1950s. But while Midge Maisel is fictional, the character is rooted in the real-life ...

Before there was The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a “boy’s club,” the truth ...