It’s important to say from the jump that I was initially told I would not have to rank the best comedy specials of the year. Since that lunch, comedy criticism has gradually become one of the most ...

2019 has been a good year for movies. There are always great films that come out in any given year, but there may be no genre that gets more overlooked than the comedy. The point of the film is to ...

IGN's Best Comedy TV Series category is the place to find the chuckles, the giggles, the guffaws and, most importantly, the finest funniest television shows of the year. Read on for our winner for the ...

Not quite a leap year, and yet in many ways, 2019 felt like the longest year ever in comedy, leaping into a Dickensian abyss where it’s somehow simultaneously the absolute best and worst time to ply ...

IGN's Best Comedy Movie category is where we go to take a load off and have some laughs. But not just that -- in order to make this list of nominees, a film has to have more going on than just the ...

All Things Considered's Best of 2019 lists are going highly specific. Up next: the best bits from stand-up comedy specials, from Best Joke about the Immigrant Experience to Best Bit about Pregnancy.

It’s back! The biggest night of Portland comedy is returning to Revolution Hall on Saturday, September 21! You like laughing your guts out, right? Then you won’t want to miss the Portland Mercury’s ...

2019 is when Netflix’s constant deluge of new stand-up started to feel normal. When the streamer’s weekly release model started up a few years ago it felt destined to fail—were there really enough ...

In a year that comedians turned on their audiences, they also delivered jokes on depression, pregnancy, sex robots and scandals. By Jason Zinoman Daniel Kitson called them dumb. They were mocked by ...

Anderson had been even longer away from the stage – since his days in Cambridge Footlights a few decades ago – but his stand-up debut Me, Macbeth and I, a witty and self-depreciating run-through of ...

We weren't even sure we wanted a Season 2 of HBO's pitch-black hitman comedy... but we're so glad we got one. Its sophomore run went to some very dark places indeed — Bill Hader's lead performance was ...

Books of a comic nature are certainly less heralded than their funny brothers and sisters in the realms of film, television, stand-up, and podcasts. But let’s show the written word some respect — it ...