stand-up comedy

Marina Franklin says audiences can always relate to jokes about heartache. "There's nothing like getting an immediate response," she says.

Arts

For Three Comedians, Valentine's Day Makes For One Big Joke

10:15am February 14, 2015

by Elizabeth Blair

Whether they find Valentine's Day "icky," or the "Christmas of love," stand-up comics Jim Gaffigan, Marina Franklin and Ted Alexandro all find plenty of funny material in romance — or the lack of it.

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Yoram Bauman jokes about "hyperinflation in hell" and on earth. Case in point: the Zimbabwe hundred-trillion-dollar note.

Economy
Environment
Health & Safety

So A Global Economist Walks Into A Comedy Club ...

8:49am October 08, 2014

by Eleanor Klibanoff

Yoram Bauman is an economist. And a stand-up comic. Who makes jokes about climate change and global development, among other topics. At the Inter-American Development Bank this week, he killed!