“This is going terribly,” Matt Rife announces at his ProbleMATTic show at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater. “This” is a repartee with a young female fan, who initially interjected to reveal that the two ...

With ticket sales tripling in the last decade, stand-up comedy is booming. But not all comics are feeling a tailwind. New comics are under pressure to adapt their work to social media. And those who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stand-up comedy has a crowd work problem, and I don’t see it letting up any time soon. Crowd work used to be one of many tools of ...

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 ...