The 1970s were a golden age for stand-up and sketch comedy, launching careers that would shape humor for decades. While a ...

Before streaming specials and social media clips, stand-up comedy was discovered through late-night television, vinyl records, and smoky nightclub stages. For Baby Boomers, certain comedians were once ...

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 ...

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 ...