After everything that happened in 2024, and heading into the five-year anniversary of the pandemic, you might have expected comedians to either reckon with the wreckage of the recent past and their ...

For someone best known as an actor, Bradley Cooper’s core interest as a filmmaker is perhaps unsurprising. Thus far, he has been entirely consumed by examinations of performance—first digging into a ...

Netflix has become a premier platform for streaming modern comedy specials, with some of the biggest names in the business launching their shows on the service. This includes a growing number of ...

Brett Goldstein has set his first stand-up comedy special at HBO. Titled “The Second Best Night of Your Life,” the hour will debut on April 26 on HBO and will be available to stream on Max. The “Ted ...

HBO has long been a home for some of the most-talked about comedy stand-up specials such as Eddie Murphy’s Delirious! and Chris Rock’s Bring The Pain as well as over a dozen from George Carlin.

How did comedians “getting real” become such a common trope in TV and movies? By Jason Zinoman Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A stand-up comic, tired of hiding behind jokes, jolts the ...