A Baltimore homecoming, a foosball champ's debut, and a viral star's first hour lead this lineup of new Netflix stand-up.

In the UK, new schemes to support mental health are introducing to people an unexpected skill: stand-up comedy. Mohan Gupta had never dreamed of becoming a comedian. Born in India and educated in the ...

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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 ...

There’s a variety of comedy special that belongs in its own particular class: the Update Special. It’s an hour of comedy that assumes you already know who this comedian is, assumes you already care ...

Gaurav Gupta stumbled upon stand-up comedy videos featuring Sumit Anand and realised that he had the potential to venture ...

From Beijing comedy clubs to New York stages, China's female comedians are using stand-up to tell new stories about modern China. On a Wednesday night not long ago, a crowd of Beijingers packed into ...

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.