Netflix has become a premier platform for streaming modern comedy specials, with some of the biggest names in the business launching their shows on the service. This includes a growing number of ...

After everything that happened in 2024, and heading into the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, you might have expected comedians to either reckon with the wreckage of the recent past and their ...

Sooner or later, nearly anyone who's made a name for themselves in stand-up comedy gets at least one shot at leading a movie (it’s now Matt Rife’s turn). But there are only a select few truly ...

Jessie Johnson is a comedian who grew up here in the Valley. She recently toured the world with fellow stand-ups Andrew ...

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 ...

A new movie from Bradley Cooper turns confessional humor into offstage drama.

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Is This Thing On? features brilliant performances by Will Arnett and Laura Dern in a drama partially set in the world of stand-up comedy. Directed by Bradley Cooper, Is This ...