Don't miss the Ugu Jazz Festival 2026, featuring top artists like Don Laka and Naledi Aphiwe, along with comedy and cultural experiences from June 25 to 27!

The annual Ugu Jazz Festival is back, and as supporters count down to the three-day festival, more artists and comedians have ...

Stand-up comedy is so much more than telling jokes with a microphone in hand. For seasoned masters of the art, it’s an exploration of everything right and wrong with humanity, all at once, from the ...

The ANC Johannesburg and the City of Johannesburg council are mourning the death of ward 19, which covers parts of Soweto (region D), councillor Simphiwe Oscar Simelane, who died after a short illness ...

If the sudden streaming success of Suits is anything to go by, people seem to be coping with the effects of the writers’ and actors’ strikes by revisiting old TV favorites. It’s something we’ve found ...

Slapstick comedy is a purposefully exaggerated form of performance that can portray a cartoonish reality. In the world of slapstick, characters are constantly getting hurt, mugging their faces, ...

Read our pick of the best Los Angeles art exhibitions to see this month, from a ‘Walk on the Moon’ at Jeffrey Deitch to The AIDS Monument at West Hollywood Park. Read our pick of the best Los Angeles ...

The BBC Comedy Collective is a supercharged bursary scheme supporting 10 emerging writers, producers, directors and editors from across the UK who want to build a career in scripted comedy. The scheme ...

The supercharged bursary scheme offers 10 places each year to mid-level comedy creatives; a mix of writers, writer/performers, producers, directors, and editors who would like to further their careers ...

I don’t know about you, but I need to laugh right now. If you’re like me and have a Netflix subscription, you’re in luck. The streamer just added a slew of new comedies that will make you smile, laugh ...

Along with — and probably because of — an increasingly world-weary world, comedy, and the way that we consume it, has matured. I’m loath to use the word seriously, but comedy has reached a level of ...

In 2006, when the company was still mailing DVD rentals, Netflix produced a stand-up special for a pre–The Hangover Zach Galifianakis called Live at the Purple Onion. It was more structurally and ...