Tom Willard, comedy fan and recent stand up comedian, recently attended the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival and the grand opening of the National Comedy Center. Willard lost his hearing later in life and ...

Once he noticed an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter parked close to him, Robin Williams, like many other comedians, had a habit of getting crude with them. In one performance posted to YouTube ...

Standing in line on the sidewalk in front of the Nuyorican Poets Café is usually a time of sensory overload. The performance space, located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is best known for ...

Deaf humour is gaining pace with a new breed of stand-up comedians. But is it possible to get the jokes across to a hearing audience if they are performed in sign language? Rinkoo Barpaga and John ...

On or off the job, Blake Wales talks with his hands. Mismatched wristbands frame supple, powerful digits dancing in tandem with conversational flow—each phrase punctuated by a precise judo chop. In ...

Before “This Close” crept quietly into television history last year, there had never been a TV series created by and starring deaf actors. Now, thanks to Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, there is.

Nyle Dimarco, the deaf model and actor who won America’s Next Top Model and Dancing with the Stars, has sold a comedy about being a deaf man in America to Spectrum. Deadline understands that the ...

While the awards campaign for “CODA” and its eventual Oscar wins brought substantial visibility to deaf performers and issues of accessibility (such as the need for closed captioning and American Sign ...

Before “This Close” crept quietly into television history last year, there had never been a TV series created by and starring deaf actors. Now, thanks to Shoshannah Stern and Josh Feldman, there is.

What was once a baby shop in downtown Manteca is transforming into a comedy club for adults on weekend nights. But that’s not all Deaf Puppy Comedy Club owner Chris Teicheira has planned for the Main ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the awards campaign for “CODA” and its eventual Oscar wins brought substantial visibility to deaf performers and issues of ...