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 ...

No matter how quick the wit, no stand-up comic starts out a success. Forget the top: on the way to the bottom rung, comics need to endure endless open-mic tryouts, log thousands of miles for little or ...

BEIJING - Chinese comedian Xiao Pa has drawn on a difficult childhood with a father who married repeatedly to tackle painful experiences through stand-up comedy. "My father used up our family's entire ...

Stand-up comedy can be serious business. Most comedians fret endlessly about their delivery and to them it’s no joking matter ...

Mary Beth Barone’s Galaxy Brain exposes mainstream comedy’s persistent misogyny … but feminist comedians have always created stages, traditions and audiences beyond the industry’s narrow field of ...

Shane Gillis’ latest Saturday Night Live monologue indicated that comedy still has a problem with women. In his tasteless seven-minute skit, Gillis visited cliché comedic territory, from weight loss ...