#stand-up-comedy

#stand-up-comedy

Alan Carr has announced a huge 93-date tour of the UK with a brand new show, Have I Said Too Much? The announcement on Wednesday (3 December) follows Carr's victory on the first series of The Celebrity Traitors, in which he claimed £87,500 ($115,000) for Neuroblastoma UK as a Traitor. Posting on Instagram on Wednesday (3 December), Carr shared the tour's poster as well as information about the stops and tour dates.

What's the best way to end your year? With laughter duh! Come to Mayes on Polk Street to end your year with a high note of laughter from San Francisco's BEST COMEDIANS! Comedians on this showcase have been featured on NBC, ABC, VICELAND, Comedy Central, SF Sketchfest, Comedy Day and More! Line Up Includes... Honotan Ortiz (The Comedy Cellar NYC) Shivaan Nadan (Opened for Hannibal Buress) Brian Babylon (NPR) Karen Braswell (Punchline/Cobbs) Plus Special Guests....

Hammer Presents Merry-Achi Christmas 2025: The Mariachi Sol de Mexico returns to the Hammer Theatre Center for a musical tribute to Mexico's Christmas traditions. Be mesmerized by a multicultural celebration featuring holiday favorites from America and Mexico. Performances will also have Mexican Sign Language. 2:30 p.m., Hammer Theater Center, 101 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose. bit.ly/4icAGUb "Kinky Boots": The boots are back!

Greg's new stand-up special, Greg Fitzsimmons: You Know Me, was recorded on November 18, 2023 at The Comedy Mothership in Austin, TX. After 35 years performing stand-up, You Know Me, finds Greg hilariously reflecting on 34 years of sobriety, sex with a 57-year-old woman, convincing your children that you're cool, and combating loneliness on the road. And he realizes, he's happy where he is.

In his typical style, C.K. opened with a gut-puncher to a sold-out house of nearly 3,000 seats and had the audience roaring into the night. I got an AIDS test today, he said as the crowd murmured. I haven't had sex in years. I just wanted some good news. The audience burst into laughter. As they quieted, C.K. took a beat and said, Turns out I have AIDS.

An inconspicuous comedian, Millican appears to be someone that you might see at a Sunday church service or a person you might pass at a grocery store. However, don't let this "ordinary" appearance fool you. Millican is a pistol on the stage. After sampling her previous shows via YouTube, I'm happy to report her sets filled with wild talk of intimacy, genitalia, and dating apps, all with a softness and smile about her that genuinely caught me a bit off guard.

Is Lewis Black okay? That's the natural fear many fans had when the comedian who has been mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-anymore for decades announced that he actually wasn't going to do it anymore. The now 77-year-old stand-up legend has retired from touring, and his recent Goodbye Yeller Brick Road performances were his last. But Black, the longest-serving contributor to The Daily Show, whose appearances started back in 1996 when Craig Kilborn (remember him?) was still the host, is not finished with comedy.

Being Eddie, a new Netflix documentary on Eddie Murphy, isn't his best movie. It isn't his worst. It's something to justify signing the 64-year-old to a $70m production deal in hopes that he might finally be moved to return to his standup comedy roots and deliver the long-anticipated follow-up to his seminal 1987 special Raw. With access to the subject and his archival material bought and paid for, Being Eddie is free to focus on other aspects of Murphy's life,

Filmed in Maniscalco's hometown of Chicago at the iconic United Center arena, the hour-long show pokes fun at all things like his sleeping habits. "I have a mild case of sleep apnea. This is where I'm at. I'm going to duct tape my mouth shut so I don't pass away in my sleep. If someone came to rob my house, they would look at me and go, 'Someone was already here. Let's go,'" Maniscalco jokes in the show's trailer.

Come for the comedy and stay to take a picture with the legendary "What's My Favorite Word?"

Come for the comedy and stay to take a picture with the legendary "What's My Favorite Word?" Hometown Comedy is a free monthly stand up comedy show. It's the only show in the Bay Area in a venue with artwork dedicated to Too Short and Mac Dre. Every first Wednesday of the month, comedians Dauood Naimyar and Rahul Pandya bring you the best stand-up comedians at Hometown Heroes bar in Emeryville.

As an Israeli Jew fluent in Hebrew, Arabic and English, Shuster Eliassi could nimbly weave between different audiences, and what started as short comedic videos on social media soon became an invitation from Harvard to develop a full-on stand-up routine skewering the idea of coexistence as it's often used in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The show would riff on her upbringing in one of the only joint Israeli-Palestinian communities in the country, threading a fine needle with self-deprecating humor and an activist's edge.

with Nguyen, who will share her journey as the child of Vietnamese refugees and how her family's story shaped her life and career. The daughter of immigrants, Duong is the first Vietnamese American and the first Asian American woman to serve on the County Board of Supervisors. Proceeds from the event support the San Jose Public Library Foundation, which raises money for the library's programs and resources. Autographed copies of Boat Baby are included with ticket purchases.

I'm a trans member of the Bush family, so I don't got that kind of money anymore.

I was on maternity leave and, looking back, I may have been having a manic episode. I'd had a long string of admin jobs that I hated. Usually, it was the case that I didn't know what my job was and nobody else did either. When I was 29, I thought: I haven't really done anything creative or put myself out there. Here I am with two kids, what am I doing? So I signed up for an open mic night.

Is This Thing On? is much more about a relationship than it is about comedy, which is probably a good thing, given how difficult it is to make movies about stand-up. Fictional comics on screen tend to skew toward being tortured truth-tellers or delusional sociopaths or both, but Alex Novak, played by Will Arnett, is neither. He's a finance guy who recently split from his wife of 20 years, and who stumbles into an open mic night on a whim

Get ready for the return of HellaFunny comedy night to Temescal with a series of pop-up live comedy shows at unique spots all across the bay. This HellaFunny comedy show takes place at the just-opened Mesa Maguey, an upscale agave bar and Oaxacan restaurant that's a perfect date-night spot with lots of delicious plates around $20 and under. It's a 70+ minute show with 4-5 comics on the bill with credits like Cobbs, Punchline, SF Sketchfest, ABC and NBC.

I am no stranger to cancel culture. I was cancelled after 9/11 simply for being Middle Eastern, as Arab terrorists were behind the attacks on the twin towers. This is despite the fact that I am not Arab, nor am I, contrary to popular opinion, a terrorist. In certain circles there have been calls to boycott my UK tour Namaste, a show in which I try to explore the nuances of the complex geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.