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 ...

A viral clip of comedian Ben Bankas unsuccessfully trying to provoke a silent audience member has ignited online ridicule and sparked discussion about the role of crowd work in stand-up comedy. The ...

Sooner or later, the infestation of crowd work content and “heckler destroyed” videos that plagues modern comedy was bound to ...

Contrary to first impressions, Matt Rife is not Dane Cook 2.0. If you understand this reference, congratulations: You are old. Dane Cook was, at the beginning of this millennium, like Rife is today: a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Comedy fans must have been on the bad list this year, because Netflix just delivered them a steaming lump of coal for the holiday ...

For Matt Rife‘s second crowd work special for Netflix, they’ve decided to go the holiday theme route, so everything is coming up Christmas as the comedian asks his audience members to share stories of ...