Stand-up changes fast, but the legends leave clues. These comedians weren’t just punchlines; they were writers, inventors, and risk-takers who made the stage feel bigger than the room. Here are the ...

There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and into the 90s, a handful of stand-up comics slowly pushed ...