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.

Ask any female stand-up, and they’ll have a version ... for a TV exec wanting change to make a case that having more women on comedy shows makes good business sense. Women in comedy have a ...

For Cho, stand-up and drama have never been separate ... As one of the first Asian women in the comedy circuit in the 1970s, Cho was defiant and unapologetic on stage even as she shared ...

Jamie Foxx, Chelsea Handler, Seth Meyers, Hasan Minhaj, Sarah Silverman and Roy Wood Jr. deliver a raucous and revealing ...

By Eric Frankenberg While the Boxscore charts are most often dominated by the biggest music stars of pop, country, Latin and more, the women of stand-up comedy are making inroads as they graduate ...

Mao added that she hoped that women would continue to get more opportunities in stand-up comedy. “More female comedians mean more discussions about women’s struggles and issues,” she said. “We may not ...

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Comedy has always been a tool for Black women—an instrument to tell uncomfortable truths, uplift cultural narratives, and connect generations through laughter. But behind every punchline is a ...

“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years ... Read on for 42 facts about some of the funny men and women who have dared to stand-up ...

This weekend, the group is presenting The FAWK Hmong (+Friends) Super Show, featuring local and national Asian stand ... we use comedy as a way to cope, and even sometimes to bring up topics ...

Comedy has become a way for women to skewer ... was one of the first Chinese comedians to demonstrate the possibilities for women in stand-up. The daughter of pig farmers in Hebei Province ...

Born Loretta Mary Aiken in 1897, Moms Mabley was the godmother of stand-up comedy for Black women. Taking to the stage in the 1920s, she became the first female comic to grace the stage at Harlem ...