Flula Borg, Vir Das, Bassem Youssef, and Gad Elmaleh. Photo: Vulture and Getty Images Flula Borg, Vir Das, Bassem Youssef, and Gad Elmaleh. Photo: Vulture and Getty Images Taking the stage and sharing ...

Give English stand-up comedian Russell Howard the option of getting an audience to erupt in laughter or give him a standing ovation at the end of his set, and there’s no question which he’ld choose.

"We were on this flight once in the early 80s. The aircraft goes to the end of the runway, turns around, and parks in a secluded area. The pilot announces: 'Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to ...

Stand-up comedian Tanmay Bhat, 24, was always the class clown in college and loved to keep everyone around him in splits. Still he never thought that getting a laugh out of people would become his ...

The local comedy scene has picked up in the last year and although the majority of the shows are in Greek, a few pop up occasionally in English and sometimes, Russian. This January, English speakers ...

Ask him how he became a stand-up comedian, Vinay Menon blurts out with a nasal chortle: “the story itself is funny.” The story in question dates back to his Bengaluru days in 2012. “I had a break-up ...