From seasoned pros like Chris Rock, Ali Wong, and Adam Sandler, to relative newcomers like Nicole Byer, Dusty Slay, and Jacqueline Novak, here are the 25 best stand-up specials to watch on Netflix ...

Sometimes, Netflix comedy specials propel unknown comedians to even greater heights. It certainly worked out well for both Leanne Morgan and Mo Amer. Morgan and Amer are back on Netflix this month ...

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Every Sunday in Austin, there's a comedy show called Banana Phone. Comedians do one minute of stand up material, then the crowd heckles and roasts them until they run out of insults.

No matter how quick the wit, no stand-up comic starts out a success. Forget the top: on the way to the bottom rung, comics need to endure endless open-mic tryouts, log thousands of miles for little or ...

If you have ever performed stand-up comedy, you know it sends your senses into overdrive. Yet for many, once they have stepped up to the mic for the first time, they can’t stop stepping up. There is ...

How did comedians “getting real” become such a common trope in TV and movies? By Jason Zinoman Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A stand-up comic, tired of hiding behind jokes, jolts the ...

From left, Steph Tolev, Frankie Quiñones and Nate Jackson. (Photo illustration by Josep Prat Sorolla / For The Times; photographs by Christina House / Los Angeles Times and Ethan Benavidez / For The ...