Stand-up comic Nimesh Patel sometimes asks his audience: Who is here because of TikTok? “The first thing I noticed was the diversity,” he says. His TikTok videos brought out comedy fans in their 20s ...
As a young school leaver, Damilola Olatunde’s favourite past time was posting funny pictures and status updates on Facebook. All that ended in 2013 after Instagram released an update, allowing users ...
Names big and small are pivoting to online humor, but the standouts are the character-driven performers who were there all along, especially Meg Stalter. By Jason Zinoman Everyone in comedy is now ...
Back in 2015, Celeste Barber was struggling to prove just how funny she was. But, as the actor, comedian and writer told ABC RN's Stop Everything! this month: "I've always been quite the hustler when ...
During this year’s Super Bowl, a T-Mobile commercial featuring a text-message joke made people on Twitter very angry. Immediately after it aired, many were quick to point out that the concept of the ...
The last few weeks have given rise to innovative forms of Internet comedy: live-streamed variety shows, a renaissance of front-facing-camera character bits, and, last month, on YouTube, a Zoom table ...
John Hodgman, Catherine Cohen, and Mike Birbiglia’s Instagram Live shows. Photo: Vulture, John Hodgeman/Instagram, Catherine Cohen/Instagram and Mike Birbiglia/Instagram Very quickly (and slowly at ...
Comedy is a notoriously hard industry to break into, and for women and people of color, it's often even more difficult. So, what exactly does it take to smash through, produce excellent work, and earn ...
When Nadirah Pierre entered the world of Instagram, her natural ability to make people laugh was not a skill initially attributed to a future profession or a lane other Muslim girls who wear hijab ...
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