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A year ago, Lea’h Sampson felt like everything was crashing. Though she had been doing stand-up comedy for six years, she was hitting a wall. Her jokes weren’t getting her booked, even in local comedy ...

A weekly pickup basketball game in Manhattan is populated almost entirely by professional funny people from all corners of the comedy landscape — stand-up comedians on their way up, comics past their ...

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In 2024, as the film and television industry looked to repair after the year of double labor strikes, comedy continued to explode. Emerging in recent years as the leader in the field, Netflix got the ...

Ray: One of the most unusual and ambitious projects to come out of DC in a while, this oversized issue combines two things that go great together – DC Comics and Mad Magazine, the historic funnybook ...

There’s a quote that is often used to describe comedy: “We must laugh to keep us from crying.” Napoleon Bonaparte first said it, but over time, the words evolved, but the meaning remained the same: ...

That was the New York Comic Con that was for 2026. I wasn't there; someone needs to have a word with the updated visa rules, ...

Up-and-coming Nashville comic Aaron Weber says we’re in the middle of a major comedy "boom" right now. Just ahead of the debut of his comedy special, "Signature Dish," the 32-year-old Alabama native ...

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This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. Jewish comedy is, of course, a long and vaunted tradition: Joan ...