Patton Oswalt premieres his new stand-up special "Tea & Scotch" on 800 Pound Gorilla’s YouTube channel on June 9 at 8 p.m. ET.

Comedy fans in 2024 have thousands of stand-up specials available at their fingertips. With dozens of new releases coming out each month across Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and YouTube, the competition has ...

Lucrative concert touring has become more than a side hustle for global talent gathered in Montreal to show studio scouts, streaming execs and club bookers how their comedy connects with audiences. By ...

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 ...

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 ...