Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? is the latest fictional film to mine humor and pathos from life on the stand-up stage—but ...

In Indianapolis, Cam O’Connor is a pioneer of placing stand-up comedy in nontraditional settings. O’Connor has told jokes and produced shows at bars, pizzerias and coffee shops since 2011, when his ...

The camp has given people a chance to live out their stand-up dreams. They come from a variety of backgrounds -- a grandmother, a fraud investigator an attorney -- but together they all had one goal ...

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 ...