Bradley Cooper cast real stand-up comedians Chloe Radcliffe and Jordan Jensen from NYC's iconic Comedy Cellar to ensure the ...

Arnett, who co-wrote the script with Cooper, plays Alex Novak, a father of two who is facing an impending divorce from his wife Tess (Laura Dern). As their marriage unravels, he seeks a new purpose in ...

Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? is the latest fictional film to mine humor and pathos from life on the stand-up stage—but ...

Comedy coach, director and author Chris Head has a festive article for us... My Christmas gift to you is a breakdown of some classic stand-up techniques you can use in your comedy or speaking, based ...

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

To coincide with the release of his new special “Know Your Audience,” comedian Modi Rosenfeld spoke to NBC News’ Joe Fryer about his career working as an investment banker before jumping into stand-up ...

Stand-up comedy is so much more than telling jokes with a microphone in hand. For seasoned masters of the art, it’s an exploration of everything right and wrong with humanity, all at once, from the ...

A year ago, Lea’h Sampson felt like everything was crashing. Though she had been doing stand-up comedy for six years, she was hitting a wall. Her jokes weren’t getting her booked, even in local comedy ...

Jenny Slate was among the stellar comics that added to the greater gamut of stand-up excellence this past year, with “Seasoned Professional.” (Rebecca Rotenberg / Flickr) Sometimes I feel like a ...

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 ...