Dallas-based stand-up comedian Raj Sharma, a fixture on North Texas stages for more than two decades, died Friday. He was 50.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with comedian Dave Chappelle about his investments in public media, the art of standup comedy and the town of Yellow Springs, Ohio.

The series also incorporates audience interviews and real-time feedback from the crowd, exploring how different demographics think and react to specific types of humor. It’s described as blending the ...

Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for Funny AF with Kevin Hart, Hart’s new comedy competition series looking for the next superstar in stand-up, also naming contestants selected from auditions in ...

Since breaking into DC’s comedy scene five years ago, Rola Zaarour has noticed a trend across all of the events she’s produced: When a couple or a group of friends attends a show, a woman usually ...

Geoff Bennett, co-anchor of PBS Newshour, joins to discuss his new book “Black Out Loud” about the history of Black comedy, from vaudeville to the Fresh Prince. Trump’s DoorDash stunt accidentally ...

In 2006, when the company was still mailing DVD rentals, Netflix produced a stand-up special for a pre–The Hangover Zach Galifianakis called Live at the Purple Onion. It was more structurally and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth struck the names of two Black and two female officers from a ...

Donald Trump is known to muse about how the military men he interacts with as president are straight out of “central casting.” He doesn’t seem to want his movie to include any Black women, according ...

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