12:36 p.m. April 14, 2025: A previous version of this story said Bobbie Oliver was the co-owner of Tao Comedy Studio. She is the owner. Susan Ware spends each morning, from around 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., ...

Stand-up comedy has long been a boy's club, but thankfully, that's starting to change. I'm not saying you still can't enjoy classics like Jerry Seinfeld, laugh at observational comedians such as John ...

The best 25 stand-up comedians of the last 25 years as chosen as chosen by the bookers and heads of top comedy clubs, ...

Before there was The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was a long history of Jewish female comedians, standing up and speaking out. Although stand-up comedy is often described as a “boy’s club,” the truth ...

Chinese officials in the eastern province of Zhejiang have put stand-up comics on notice to avoid jokes that could fuel resentment between the sexes. Introduced to China a little over a decade ago, ...

There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and into the 90s, a handful of stand-up comics slowly pushed ...

Women are having a moment in China’s stand-up comedy scene. Stand-up shows on Chinese TV channels and streaming apps have long been a man’s world. In 2017, just one out of every 10 contestants was a ...

A weekly pickup basketball game in Manhattan is populated almost entirely by professional funny people from all corners of the comedy landscape — stand-up comedians on their way up, comics past their ...