Julia Scotti has two comedy albums and is performing live locally this weekend. You can catch her on Saturday, November 22, ...

Who doesn't appreciate a good funny joke? Take this one, for example: Did you hear about the robbery at the glue factory? It was a stickup. For the encore, we'd love to tell you a construction joke ...

Behold the spotlight, the microphone. The audience, hushed in anticipation. The music as he (usually he, sometimes she) walks to the empty stage. Then, the opening joke. Funny, we hope, but like a ...

The self-made comedy renaissance man used sketch comedy as a vehicle to find success on BET, social media, books and touring. He talks about his strategy to stay consistent with content and find the ...

In the book, Apatow, 57, ventures through his youth on Long Island and how his first exposure to stand-up comedy was at ...

A new generation of stand-ups is mining the heartbreaking loss of a loved one for ambitious shows. How did we get here? Credit...Javier Jaén Supported by By Jason Zinoman Denial. Anger. Bargaining.

At Variety's A Night in the Writers Room, comedy showrunners from 'The Paper,' 'Elsbeth,' 'Wednesday' and more discussed what ...

If there's one thing that there's no shortage of in Hollywood, it's bad comedy movies. Every single year, it seems like Hollywood loves shoving their bad jokes down the collective throats of the ...

You’d think Elon Musk, the second-wealthiest person in the world, would have bigger worries than whether or not strangers on the internet find him funny. Yet despite the long list of business concerns ...

Unless you're a comedy writer and you see a late-night TV host telling a joke you wrote. Five times. That's what the writer Alex Kaseberg says happened to him in late 2014 and early 2015, a charge ...