I recently sat in on a casting session for a major television drama. The actors auditioning for roles ran the gamut from semi-celebrities to total unknowns. Some held the script, others were ...

In Episode 4 of Netflix's wonderfully kooky comedy Lady Dynamite, Maria Bamford (playing herself) is wooing a date at a comedy club when her buddy Patton Oswalt stops by their table. "How do you know ...

Spoonerism is a fun word to read, but also the act itself can make audiences laugh. In case you're not aware, a spoonerism is a kind of verbal slip in which the initial sounds or letters of two or ...

WILLIAMSBURG — When Lily Ludwig and Austin Packard perform in Chicago, their audiences are used to being surrounded by a variety of comedy shows in the big city. Not so at last year’s inaugural Last ...

WILLIAMSBURG — If a comedian from Hampton Roads gets to perform with a counterpart from Chicago, New York or Los Angeles, it usually involves a trip to the big city. Not this time. Next week, ...

Netflix is gearing up to release a couple of new originals, one of which is a series called History of Swear Words hosted by Nicolas Cage. As you'd expect given the nature of the show and its host, ...

When Luke Null takes the stage with an acoustic guitar, it’s not to serenade a crowd. It’s for the punchlines. “I’m a comedian first by a long shot and a musician later, and then I’m an all-right ...

Talk radio host and gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder is drawing fire for a decades-old clip, recorded at a comedy club, in which he repeatedly uses the N-word, in an apparent impression of O.J.