Netflix’s comedy catalog feels like a maze if you don't know what you're looking for. For every brilliant, tear-inducing masterpiece, there are about five specials that feel like listening to your ...

No other comedy special this year accomplishes quite the same mixture of emotion that Jordan Jensen’s does. It is so closely written, so thoroughly and carefully conceived as a window into Jensen’s ...

The time has finally come: We’re back with our year-end list on the emerging comics you need to know. It’s been another hugely dynamic year for comedy, with 29 stand-up specials from Netflix, 12 ...

Taylor Tomlinson is the it-girl of the stand-up scene. She currently hosts “After Midnight,” a late-night game show, making her one of the few female hosts on late-night television in recent history.

There’s a variety of comedy special that belongs in its own particular class: the Update Special. It’s an hour of comedy that assumes you already know who this comedian is, assumes you already care ...

Stand-up comedian Mark Normand talks the way he performs: fast, loose and irreverent, with a punchline lurking around every corner. With a baby at home and a new Netflix special on the way, Normand ...

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 ...