When 30-year-old Jessica Giannantonio is performing improvisational comedy on stage, she knows a scene could take a wild turn ...

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Though she requested a guarantee that she could be “openly out as a lesbian on stage and perform gay material,” Kirson is ...

At the Comedy Store, I learned the laugh isn’t the goal but the evidence that you’ve connected. That, for a moment, you and the audience are breathing the same air and believing in the same idea. That ...

Jessica Kirson has apologized for performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia, while the embattled Louis C.K.

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While the streets of Rogers and Eureka Springs are roaring with motorcycles, downtown Bentonville will be rolling with laughter --... Monica Hooper is an award-winning features writer specializing in ...

While the streets of Rogers and Eureka Springs are roaring with motorcycles, downtown Bentonville will be rolling with laughter -- and a few punches -- when the Big Diamond Comedy Festival returns Oct ...

PYGMALION welcomed Josh Johnson to Champaign-Urbana Friday evening, where he delivered an hour-long set to a packed crowd at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. PYGMALION, founded in 2005, has ...

Caleb Hearon is putting it all out there in his first HBO stand-up special, Caleb Hearon: Model Comedian, but the comedian, actor, writer, and director isn’t a stranger to opening up as his star ...

Inside L.A. restaurant Jaragua, on a recent Friday night, Justin Alexio moved with a measured urgency from the backroom to the front of the restaurant without disturbing anyone's dinner. The comic, ...

Stand Up for Heroes, New York City’s highly anticipated night of hope, healing and laughter, presented by the Bob Woodruff Foundation and the New York Comedy Festival (NYCF), returns for its 19th year ...