Many of the year’s best comedy specials share a reflective sense of mid-career reconsideration. The most striking of these is ...

Comedy has always been a tool for Black women—an instrument to tell uncomfortable truths, uplift cultural narratives, and connect generations through laughter. But behind every punchline is a legacy ...

Colson spent her most recent WNBA season with the Indiana Fever, one unfortunately cut short with an ACL tear in August. The ...

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of 'This American Woman,' which hits bookshelves on April 29, 2025 Zarna Garg fled India at age 14 to avoid an arranged marriage. Later, she moved to the Big ...

The Times recently spoke with six women who started stand-up comedy later in life. Their big takeaway: Stand-up comedy is a unique artform because anyone can do it as long as they’re funny. Performing ...

Comedian Iliza Shlesinger takes the word “special” very seriously, and not just because she’s done a lot of them (seven, to be exact). It’s because when she hits the stage, the goal is to leave a mark ...

Her boyfriend told her that if she could "laugh" at herself, she'd "be happier” Meredith Wilshere is a Society and Culture writer at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared on PS, Stylecaster, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Morgan and Amer are back on Netflix this month with their second and third specials, respectively.

Mia Almas lives a double life. She works as a fact-checker for a news publication by day and as a stand-up comedian by night. And then one day, she discovers her Palestinian grandmother's diary, ...

Over the 50 years since the first Vietnam War-era Southeast Asian refugees arrived in the U.S., there’s been hardship — but there have also been plenty of comedic moments, which is where the St.

For Chelsea Handler, it's always happy hour. In every sense. That breathtakingly snarky sense of humor she trains on celebrities on her late-night series, "Chelsea Lately" (10 p.m. CDT, E!)? It isn't ...

A comedian who used to make jokes about her hair-pulling condition while performing stand-up has said female audience members regularly disclosed having the disorder too. Jo from Stoke-on-Trent, who ...