I’ve had a lot of careers, side hustles, and compelling hobbies that gave me experience and skills, but I often felt like I didn't know what career suited me best. I had a lot of things I wanted to ...

The Bergamot Comedy Festival in Santa Monica last week was more than just a comedy festival. Sure, there were lots of funny comedians, but more than just stand-up performances at The Crow, the fest ...

There are some aspects of comedy you just can’t teach. But for comedian Chinedu Unaka, plenty was learned while giving lessons in a classroom. As a kid growing up in South L.A., it wasn’t planned that ...

A craft that demands creativity, a unique style, precision, and, of course, a killer punchline, stand-up comedy is an art ...

It was 2018. Gavitte was supposed to deliver the eulogy of a man he said had “spent most of his life crawling into engines.” His father had worked at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York until he was ...

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 ...

Mohan Gupta had never dreamed of becoming a comedian. Born in India and educated in the UK, he trained as engineer and, later, a monk. "I never in my life thought I would make anyone laugh," he says.