“This is going terribly,” Matt Rife announces at his ProbleMATTic show at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater. "This" is a repartee with a young female fan, who initially interjected to reveal that the two ...

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 the trade but has gradually become the main attraction. At its heart, ...

SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer – Crowd working is a new form of work that is gaining a lot of traction. Even though the number of crowd workers is small, estimated at one to three percent of ...

On the surface a crowd work album sounds like a terrible idea. Crowd work is inherently built around the direct connection between a comedian and an audience, and it’s already hard to replicate that ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As the High Plains Comedy Festival returns for its 10th edition, Denver audiences can catch dozens of stand-up sets from 100 local and national comics, ...

Tacoma comedian Nate Jackson has TV credits, but his stand-up career has blown up in the past two years thanks to his crowd work “joints” on YouTube and clips on TikTok. On YT, 19 of his most popular ...

Comedy fans must have been on the bad list this year, because Netflix just delivered them a steaming lump of coal for the holiday season. Comedian Matt Rife, who coughed up a crowd work special for ...

B.C. Kowalski, a writer at the local weekly in Wausau, Wisconsin, was expecting a boost to his income this spring. He was set to begin selling ads for local businesses on a podcast he’d launched on ...

TikTok has a mixed record when it comes to comedy. The app helped launch the beloved Brian Jordan Alveraz—but also the controversial Matt Rife. Meanwhile, it has given rise to the 20-something ...

Moshe Kasher, Andrew Schulz, Judah Friedlander and other stand-ups are trying to elevate an aspect of live comedy often overlooked on specials. By Jason Zinoman Hey, where you from? What do you do?