There are many women who have played pivotal roles in shaping the history of stand-up comedy. But who was the first? Let’s take a look at the life of the world’s first female comedian.
Vaudeville was a type of theatre that developed in France in the late 1800s that is very similar to a variety show. It was very popular throughout Canada and the United States until the 1930s.
Carlin’s most famous bit of comedy was titled “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” This skit was first recorded in...
Abbott & Costello were a very popular American comedy duo. The pair, comprised of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, first began working together in New York City in the 1930s.
Improvisational Comedy, or Improv for short, has increasingly gained a following over the past few decades. This style embraces spontaneity and can bring about roaring laughs.
Stand-up comedy as a style ultimately is quite simple. There is a comic, an audience, and nothing else. However, it is also quite different from how comedy has traditionally occurred.
If I had posed this question a few years ago, the answer would have been clear. The oldest comedy club in the world was...
Historians of stand-up comedy (yes, that is a profession) can trace its roots back to a number of places. Some would argue that...
While formal comedy has existed for likely as long as human society, the first thing resembling stand-up lies in the history of court jesters. In fact, the king’s courts in England served as the first...
