Over the past decade, and particularly since the pandemic years, the stand-up comedy special has undergone a quiet but ...

In the UK, new schemes to support mental health are introducing to people an unexpected skill: stand-up comedy.

YouTube functions as both a broadcast platform and a searchable archive. A special doesn't air once and vanish; it lives on, ...

Stand-up comedy is enjoying a wonderful renaissance in the UK. Theatres small and large across the country are packed with fans enjoying the best of British gagsmiths, and you can't switch on the ...

Unquestionably one of the defining British stand-ups of the past twenty years, Jimmy Carr is known for his edgy, joke-heavy material, but also for his sheer graft. He's a joke technician: he gets up ...

If comedy was indeed the “new rock'n'roll”, then Michael McIntyre was, for a hot second, its Elvis Presley. During the Noughties British comedy boom, when stand-up suddenly became fodder for stadium ...

Netflix offers a wide variety of stand-up comedy specials featuring diverse comedians skewering a myriad of topics - nothing is off-limits. You can find female, POC, and LGBTQ+ stand-ups on Netflix ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Beavers is an inventive comedy movie that generated a lot of buzz in 2024. Hundreds and hundreds of stand-up comedy specials?! That’s a lot to chew on, even for the most ardent comedy nerd ...

Off Sue. Or Taskmaster Sue. Perhaps Just A Minute Sue. Or even the Sue who delivers serious travel envy from the furthest ...

Ahir Shah's stand-up show Ends is now airing on Netflix - Chris Watt There may be times while you’re watching Ahir Shah’s Ends – winner of the 2023 Best Comedy Show at the Fringe and now airing on ...

There is no genre more near and dear to my heart than comedy. The skills necessary to make others laugh -- whether live and in-person or through a screen -- are a unique and beautiful combination that ...