For Asian American Pacific Islander Month, I wanted to highlight 12 AAPI Rising Stand-Up Comedians working hard to make us laugh by sharing their stories -- whether it’s AAPI-based or not.

Bradly Butcher is a standup comedian and founder of Comedy Up North, a new series debuting this summer. Alaska's stand-up comedy scene has been quietly gaining momentum and a new summer series at ...

NEW YORK, NY(IANS) – Indian American stand-up comedian and screenwriter Zarna Garg will take her acclaimed comedy show titled ‘Practical People Win’ to India for the very first time.

NEW YORK, NY(IANS) – Stand-up star Zakir Khan will become the first Indian to perform at the Madison Square Garden, when he brings his material here in March 2024. After this showcase ...

Stand-up comic Matteo Lane recalls meeting Katy Perry several years ago backstage at one of her concerts in Las Vegas. “She was very nice,” Lane says on today’s episode of “Just for ...

"The opportunity to represent India at a global stage like this" is "a dream I cannot wait to live," the Indore-born funnyman ...

And in many ways, it did. But Ross also did something one rarely sees from a stand-up comic (and I inhale comedy as a hobby). When he brought up the serious stuff, it wasn’t as a set-up for a joke.

Some have an artist fetish, and want to pair up because it’s “cool”. Dating a stand-up comic is not for the easily offended. Romance often takes a back seat to punchlines. It’s rougher ...

It’s been a year since Pete Davidson told jokes onstage in a comedy club — and it seems he had to get some zingers off his chest. We’re told the former “Saturday Night Live” castmember ...

Why not become a famous stand-up comic? “The big advantage of having failed in life as much as I have is that you stop being scared of it,” she said. “I’ve been through so much in life ...

With his love of joke crafting, Martin says he represents the comedy old guard as stand-up has become heavily autobiographical in today’s internet age. “Specifically, it’s jokes that have ...