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 ...

Zainab Johnson has a theory about her success, and she calls it “the Zainab effect”—her uncanny ability to level up even the most busted situations into something worth watching. It’s a fitting ...

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 ...

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

While talking about her vibrator, for example, she says, “You know, a lot of women are like ... good name for a comedy special, especially one that combines stand-up and magic.

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 ...

For this special, Rawlings opens up about dating women much younger ... U.K. version of The Office and a stand up legend in his own right, Ricky Gervais’ comedy legacy is largely secure.

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 ...

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 ...