If you want to see Jon Stewart cry a little on the inside, ask him about his sadly brief career as an actor. The leap from stage to screen is a notoriously tricky one, best facilitated by “Saturday ...

British stand-up comedian and sitcom star Ricky Gervais said comics should not obsess over potentially offending audiences, because any joke will offend somebody somewhere. In a new interview with the ...

Unquestionably one of the defining British stand-ups of the past twenty years, Jimmy Carr is known for his edgy, joke-heavy material, but also for his sheer graft. He's a joke technician: he gets up ...

Actor Will Arnett has revealed how "scary" it was doing live stand-up comedy as he prepared to play a novice comedian in ...

Taskmaster has finally returned for its 20th season. Greg Davies and Alex Horne return to oversee another batch of surreal challenges, petty rivalries and flashes of comic genius, as five fresh ...

Garry Bushell's latest critique has sent shockwaves through the comedy world, as he names and shames Britain's so-called top comedians. Who makes your list?

Todd Barry is a New York–based comedian who gained recognition with his 2014 special The Crowd Work Tour, produced by Louis C.K., where he performed entirely improvised sets based on audience ...

A weekly pickup basketball game in Manhattan is populated almost entirely by professional funny people from all corners of the comedy landscape — stand-up comedians on their way up, comics past their ...