Modern stand-up comedy began around the turn of the century, evolving from a variety of sources including minstrel shows and vaudeville. Early stand-up comedians spoke directly to the audience as themselves without See more

Early twentieth-century front-cloth comics started in music halls, paving the way for stand-up comedy in Great Britain. Notable front-cloth comics who rose through the variety theatre circuit See more

The one-man-show genre, which is similar, but allows other approaches (enacting characters, songs and scenes) was introduced in … See more

Stand-up comedy has roots in various traditions of popular entertainment of the late 19th century, including vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, See more

Germany developed its stand-up culture in the 1990s, with a growing trend. Among the early pioneers of the later German comedy scene can be counted Loriot, Heinz Erhardt See more

In terms of live comedy in Mexico , the predecessors of this comic style are:
• The Tepichines are a comic duo who were predecessors … See more

Although the origins of this genre can be traced back to the monologues of Miguel Gila in the 1950s, the rise of live comedy in Spain took a long time in comparison with the American continent. The first generalized relationship with this comic genre occurred in … See more