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 ...

“I did not want my English to be good. I did not even want to speak it...my father sounds like the love child of Downtown Abbey and a Bangalore call centre.’ With these jokes about the way he speaks ...

Stand-up comedy in Asia is booming right now, and one of the continent’s rising stars is a comic named Mark Stanlan. In a span of just 18 months, Stanlan has made the jump from lowly open-micer to ...

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 ...