Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s an objective fact: Black women are hilarious. Through the trials and tribulations of living, they prevail by finding the ...

The Times recently spoke with six women who started stand-up comedy later in life. Their big takeaway: Stand-up comedy is a unique artform because anyone can do it as long as they’re funny. Performing ...

Forest, 90, is performing her one-woman show, “90 Years of Songs and Scandal,” as part of the New York City Fringe Festival. D’yan Forest is, in the truest sense of the phrase, one of a kind. That’s ...

For Supriya Joshi, stand-up comedy wasn’t a planned career move, it happened by chance. “I was working at AIB in 2017 and had no plans to do stand-up. I didn’t even think I’d be good at it, but a ...

Jean Carroll is considered the first Jewish woman to do stand-up comedy. Now, an event aims to introduce New Yorkers to this influential yet little-known legend. Before there was Joan Rivers and Susie ...

These comics have to navigate culture clashes and social stereotypes. The key, they say, is to make fun of your own nationality first. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Berlin and Amsterdam It was Friday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...