Origins of Stand-Up Comedy
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.
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...
