There’s a famous 1960s song with the classic lyric, “What the world needs now is love, sweet love.” That may have been true then, but what the world in 2026 needs is laughter, sweet laughter, and ...

When Luke Null takes the stage with an acoustic guitar, it’s not to serenade a crowd. It’s for the punchlines. “I’m a comedian first by a long shot and a musician later, and then I’m an all-right ...

After everything that happened in 2024, and heading into the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, you might have expected comedians to either reckon with the wreckage of the recent past and their ...

Upward of 150 stand-up specials were released in 2023. That’s a lot — much more than a generation ago, when it was hardly guaranteed that a comedian would ever film one if they weren’t one of the top ...

Mort Sahl’s album At Sunset has been referred to as “the earliest example of modern stand-up comedy on record,” but although it was recorded in 1955, it wasn’t released until 1958. In between then, ...

Netflix has become a premier platform for streaming modern comedy specials, with some of the biggest names in the business launching their shows on the service. This includes a growing number of ...

The 74-minute show appears to be a loosely constructed, even ramshackle affair. The onstage TV screens don't work, his musical director Dan Bulla suffers a mishap with his keyboard stand and a random ...