The first annual Irish American Comedy & Film Fleadh is bringing the finest comedic minds from Ireland to the US this Saturday, March 11 as a partnership between the Count Basie Center in Red Bank, ...

NORFOLK, Neb. (KTIV) - The 2025 Great American Comedy Festival in Norfolk, Nebraska, announced five comedians who will be featured during the event. The five comedians, River Butcher, David Perdue, ...

On its 20th anniversary, organizers look back on a tradition that has frequently coincided with painful news events. By Christopher Kuo In 2003, with the Iraq War underway and a wave of anti-Arab ...

Comedian and drag entertainer Monét X Change has announced the 2026 dates for her national stand-up comedy tour Monét X ...

Native American comedy writer Joey Clift (Cowlitz) thinks there’s something way scarier — and a lot less harmful — than the ubiquitous “Native American burial grounds” trope you see in pop culture.

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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Joshua Emerson may seem like a typical comic — at least in the sense that he loves stand-up more than it loves him. “Comedy is a lot of work for little ...

President Sir Frank Cooper of The African American Humor Awards Society, the very first Black comedy award show. Photo Credit: Sir Frank Cooper Established in 1989 by Sir Frank Cooper, The African ...

In October 1983, the Friars Club, that bastion of American comedy royalty, held a roast of comic legend Sid Caesar. Some 2,000 men laughed appreciatively, and among them was not one single woman.

Dec 27 (Reuters) - (This Dec. 27 story has been corrected to fix the day to Tuesday in paragraph 1 and Wednesday in paragraph 2) American comic Tom Smothers, the elder half of the musical-comedy duo ...

From stand-up acts to hit movies, Black comedy has been driving the culture for generations. Learn more about its history, and get some recommendations for a watch party too. Black Comedy Month is ...

AMERICAN AUTO — "Pilot" — Pictured:(l-r) Michael Benjamin Washington as Cyrus, Ana Gasteyer as Katherine, Humphrey Ker as Elliot, Harriet Dyer as Sadie, Tye White as Jack — (Photo by: Greg Gayne/NBC) ...