Streaming has become a great home for stand-up comedy, and Netflix's lineup in particular includes 15 of the best stand-up ...

If you’re like me, then you would have been proven wrong or severely let down by too many of 2025’s stand-up comedy specials. Which made those who did step up this year stand out that much more. I’ve ...

Over the past decade, and particularly since the pandemic years, the stand-up comedy special has undergone a quiet but decisive rise.

Netflix offers a wide variety of stand-up comedy specials featuring diverse comedians skewering a myriad of topics - nothing is off-limits. You can find female, POC, and LGBTQ+ stand-ups on Netflix ...

Unquestionably one of the defining British stand-ups of the past twenty years, Jimmy Carr is known for his edgy, joke-heavy material, but also for his sheer graft. He's a joke technician: he gets up ...

Hundreds of Beavers is an inventive comedy movie that generated a lot of buzz in 2024. Hundreds and hundreds of stand-up comedy specials?! That’s a lot to chew on, even for the most ardent comedy nerd ...

Stand-up comedy is enjoying a wonderful renaissance in the UK. Theatres small and large across the country are packed with fans enjoying the best of British gagsmiths, and you can't switch on the ...

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 ...

If comedy was indeed the “new rock'n'roll”, then Michael McIntyre was, for a hot second, its Elvis Presley. During the Noughties British comedy boom, when stand-up suddenly became fodder for stadium ...

Jo Brand Through the Cakehole is a British stand-up comedy television series produced by Channel X, and starring Jo Brand as the show's host. It debuted on 30 December 1993 in the United Kingdom and ...

Ahir Shah's stand-up show Ends is now airing on Netflix - Chris Watt There may be times while you’re watching Ahir Shah’s Ends – winner of the 2023 Best Comedy Show at the Fringe and now airing on ...

There is no genre more near and dear to my heart than comedy. The skills necessary to make others laugh -- whether live and in-person or through a screen -- are a unique and beautiful combination that ...