Standup Comedy

WATCH: The Muslims Are Coming

Posted 04.16.2012

What happens when you take a group of Muslim-American comedians on the road across America? You end up on a mission to change hearts and minds, albeit...

Holy F*ck! A Look at Standup Comedy With Dave Ross

Tony Bartolone | Posted 04.12.2012

Tony Bartolone

I want the audience to be filled with weirdos and nerds and punks and broke idiots who are looking for a break from the loud, angry, blaring neon of every day life.

WATCH: Heckler Gets Destroyed

Posted 04.06.2012

UPDATE: The original video of the comedian being heckled has since been removed from YouTube. However, in the short time it was up, it inspired a he...

WATCH: Adorable Little Girl Tries Stand-Up

Posted 03.27.2012

Finally, someone has the nerve to stick it to glossy paper. Little Teddie may not be a great stand-up comedian yet, but she's got two big things go...

Aziz Ansari's 'Delicious' Slice Of Comedy

Maureen Ryan | Posted 05.20.2012

Maureen Ryan

Anziz Ansari has little of the superhuman confidence of his "Parks and Recreation" character Tom Haverford; most of his nights out, he says in his new comedy special, end up in the dorm rooms of Indian guys who invite him over to play videogames.

Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me Reveals the Restless Heart of Comedy

Carol Hartsell | Posted 05.17.2012

Carol Hartsell

Matt's story is about not only learning how to become the comedian he always wanted to be, but learning what he's willing to give up to get it.

SXSW Comedy Recap: Day 3

Samantha Pitchel | Posted 05.13.2012

Samantha Pitchel

Ethically questionable wi-fi! Media mergers! Jay-Z! Oh Day Three, when the South By gossip really starts heating up, but everyone's a little too beer/burrito hungover to really get behind it.

WATCH: The Evolution Of Louis CK

Posted 02.17.2012

In March 2010, Louis CK hosted a tribute to George Carlin for the New York Public Library where he ruminated on comedy, having a career, and what make...

Jerry Seinfeld On His 'Seinfeld' Success (UPDATED)

Posted 03.25.2012

UPDATE: Jerry Seinfeld tweeted a response to this story: Our original headline, "Jerry Seinfeld: I Wasn't Comfortable With 'Seinfeld' Success,"...

What's Funny About Occupy Wall Street?

Nato Green | Posted 02.13.2012

Nato Green

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Colin Quinn Takes On The World

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 12.15.2011

Colin Quinn isn't afraid to tell the difficult truth. You just may have to look closely to figure out what, exactly, that truth is. During his tenu...

The Greatest Comic You May Not Have Heard Of Releases First Live Album

Posted 11.29.2011

If you've ever seen Eddie Pepitone perform, then you probably love Eddie Pepitone. A long-time favorite of comedy devotees, the "Bitter Buddha" as ...

Review - Richard Herring: What Is Love Anyway?

Jack Pelling | Posted 01.21.2012

Jack Pelling

One DVD you probably won't see by the fags in Tesco Express however, is Richard Herring's Christ on a Bike - The Second Coming, his excellent show about his relationship with Christianity.

WATCH: Why It's Great That America Is Going Downhill

Posted 11.15.2011

"America may be entering it's Michael Jordan on the Wizards period." So says comedian Christian Finnegan (Are We There Yet?, Chappelle's Show) in h...

Comedy, Seriously

Tom Teicholz | Posted 11.13.2011

Tom Teicholz

By now, Marc Maron has interviewed Louis C.K., Robin Williams, Ben Stiller, Patton Oswalt, Phil Rosenthal, Jeffrey Ross and Garofalo, among many others. Even the normally guarded Conan O'Brien opened up to him.

WATCH: The Club That Launched Some Of Your Favorite Black Comedians

Posted 10.25.2011

Before they were household names, where did Jamie Foxx, Bernie Mac & Dave Chappelle call home when they were in Chicago? A now non-existent club calle...

WATCH: Dave Chappelle's First Interview In Five Years

Posted 10.15.2011

Dave Chappelle dropped in on San Francisco's Wild 94.9 station to chat with morning DJ JV recently, and he covered a variety of topics, including the ...

This Old Guy Walks Into a Comedy Club...

Marc Hershon | Posted 10.08.2011

Marc Hershon

Richard Carter, 1920-2011 I just learned that Richard Carter passed away at the age of 91 last month, over across the bay in Concord, CA. He was a wa...

WATCH: Is Joy Behar Hitting On Larry David?

Posted 09.12.2011

Joy Behar thinks Larry David has gotten cuter with age. Of course, when you see the footage of him in his earlier days, it's kind of hard to disagree....

Film Review: Just Like Us

Joseph Smigelski | Posted 08.01.2011

Joseph Smigelski

Ahmed takes us on a whirlwind tour of the comedy club circuit from Dubai to Beirut to Riyadh to Cairo. The movie is funny, enlightening, and I'll bet quite surprising to a Western audience.

WATCH: Why You Should Never Have A Hippie Roommate

Posted 07.27.2011

Comedian Louis Katz once had a roommate who played the didgeridoo and adopted a cat named Dave Meowthews from a dumpster. Funny stuff to hear about? S...

Max Tries Yoga

Max Fox | Posted 06.07.2011

Max Fox

When you look at me, one thing you don't think is, "Well, there's a man who does yoga." I've just never considered my inner being to be very yoga-friendly. I'm namaste-intolerant.

Going There: My Lunch With Comedian Tom Wilson

Tim Siedell | Posted 05.28.2011

Tim Siedell

Tom Wilson gets asked the same Back to the Future questions over and over and over again. So when we met, I was determined not to go there. And good lord, I tried not to.

Remembering Comedian Mike DeStefano

The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 05.25.2011

Comedian Mike DeStefano has passed away following a heart attack on Sunday Punchline Magazine reports, and it is an enormous loss for the comedy commu...

WATCH: Comedian Kurt Metzger On Ferguson

Posted 05.25.2011

Kurt Metzger is one of those comedians who has a lot of fans in fellow comics as well as regular people, and for good reason. He's got a presence that...