If you want to see Jon Stewart cry a little on the inside, ask him about his sadly brief career as an actor. The leap from stage to screen is a notoriously tricky one, best facilitated by “Saturday ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. For ages, various friends of mine recommended that I check out Taskmaster, a British comedy game show in which a group of five comedians earn points by ...

British stand-up comedian and sitcom star Ricky Gervais said comics should not obsess over potentially offending audiences, because any joke will offend somebody somewhere. In a new interview with the ...

FOR A MICROPHONE. MERRIMACK, NEW HAMPSHIRE NATIVE IZZY DEROSA MAY LEAN ON HER TIME AS A TEACHER FOR LAUGHS. ONE DAY I WAS TAKING MY CLASS OUT TO RECESS AND ANOTHER KINDERGARTNER STOPPED ME AND WAS ...

There are two rules of stand-up comedy: You don’t steal other comedians’ jokes, and jokes about dating a MacBook are off-limits. I can’t tell if RoboThespian breaks the first rule, but it sure as ...

What do you get when you cross a young Petaluma actor with a veteran stand-up comic? A fund-raiser for Cinnabar Theater at the Mystic Theater at 8 p.m. Saturday. The show features former Petaluma High ...