Dane Cook has a lot of comedic talents, but traditional joke-telling isn’t one of them. The setup/punchline approach to stand-up is “not my strong suit because I have this physical element,” he told ...

Controversial material can be a stand-up comedy staple, but in this case, comedian Dane Cook might just have taken it too far. During Cook's performance at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles on Thursday ...

Have you heard the one about a comedian making a joke about a tragedy—say, a theater shooting that left 12 dead and more than 50 injured—less than a week after the event? Yeah, the initial joke wasn’t ...