Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Comedian, writer and actor Alex Edelman makes his Late Show stand-up comedy debut and gets the whole theater laughing with true ...

This month, San Francisco audiences can see two of the brainiest comics currently working in full-length solo shows that have radically different structures. First, queer British entertainer Eddie ...

He’d have to be granted entrance first, permission that Edelman allows he owed to his whiteness — though whether it was a privilege in this case is debatable. (He points to his hometown of Boston as ...

There is a theory that in the future all comedy superstars will emerge through TikTok, Instagram and YouTube rather than via good old gigging. But the Edinburgh Festival Fringe still makes big names.

Plus, comics Mike Birbiglia, Jacqueline Novak and Jenny Slate on truth, trauma and the last person they want to see in the audience: "You don’t really want your friends to be there when you’re ...

On Wednesday evening, I found myself stuck in unremitting laughter. The cause: watching comedian Alex Edelman’s stand-up show at the University of Michigan’s very own Rackham Auditorium. Edelman’s ...

Alex Edelman has built quite the reputation over the last few years, with sold-out comedy shows and knock-’em-dead late-night performances, honing material for a Broadway debut that does his ...