Amy Schumer went from a hustling stand-up comedian to a major movie star. “After my dad got MS and we went bankrupt and my mom left him, that period from age 12 to 15 was a really rough time,” Schumer ...

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 ...

Stand-up comedian Becky Robinson’s career is really starting to take off, thanks to a wig, a golf outfit from her mother’s closet and what she calls "one manic episode of improv" she filmed and posted ...

No other comedy special this year accomplishes quite the same mixture of emotion that Jordan Jensen’s does. It is so closely written, so thoroughly and carefully conceived as a window into Jensen’s ...

Will Arnett is no stranger to performing. But the actor found stand-up comedy "daunting and scary" in his new dramedy "Is ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart is teaming with Netflix for a new competition series to crown the next big name in stand-up. Guided by Hart and a crew of comedy titans, to be announced at a later date, the ...