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Marty Callner made the first modern special, setting the template still in use. (He was also key to hair-metal videos. But that’s another story.)

Planned long before the streamer hit a rough patch, the expansive event had the feel of the end of an era. Still, there were plenty...

Robin Thede and her castmates bring a light, joyful touch and a comedy-nerd sensibility to this HBO series that often, delightfully, descends into the absurd.

In “Rothaniel” on HBO, the stand-up grapples with secrets that defined his upbringing, the toll silence has taken and the price he’s paying to break...

Ti West is the rare genre director to understand the original and honor it with a movie, “X,” that also works on its own terms.

On her new Netflix special, “Look at You,” she demonstrates tight joke writing, carefully honed act-outs and a ruthless appetite for laughs.

The stand-up comic, whose special has gone viral, takes issue with how some South Asians like Hari Kondabolu portray their experience in the United States.

For a cultural critic, a sense of humor is integral to his Jewish identity. But these dark times raise existential questions about comedy and its...

In his new special, the comic claims he has no agenda, but his jokes and stories about poverty cohere into trenchant commentary. Why are themes...

He displayed an empathetic humanity that he shared offstage with his friend Bob Saget. The loss of both comics represents the end of an era.