Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stand-up comedy has a crowd work problem, and I don't see it letting up any time soon. Crowd work used to be one of many tools of ...

Stand-up comedian Jessica Kirson delivers her top 10 best crowd work moments during a hilarious stand-up comedy show.

A MARTÍNEZ, BYLINE: One of the hottest trends in stand-up comedy is crowd work. That's when the comedian makes the audience part of the act, asking questions and having conversations with members of ...

What begins as a normal stand-up comedy show quickly turns into complete chaos when the comedian starts interacting with ...

Life is a bit surreal for Jeff Arcuri these days. Though he’s been a stand-up comedian for over 14 years, most people in the world never knew it until clips of him joking around with audiences at ...

3 Stand-Up Comedy Legends Who Were Destroying Hecklers Before It Was Trendy Before crowd-work clips became clickbait, old-school stand-ups were shutting down audience members on albums, specials, and ...

Comedian Jessica Kirson can look at an audience, pick people out and spin it into material right on the spot. Comics call it "crowd work," but for Kirson it’s second nature. Nassau County resident ...

You know the audience reaction shot — that shift in focus from the comic telling a joke… …to the crowd laughing. It’s such a common part of comedy specials ...

This story is part of Sixth Tone’s 10-year anniversary series, Ten Years in Transition. YUNNAN, Southwest China — On a cold January afternoon in Kunming, three women from the stand-up club More Than ...