Stand-up comedy in the Philippines has gone beyond bar stages and theater crowds, finding a new home on streaming platforms. For local comics, podcasts ...

HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES -- The new movie "Easter Sunday" is inspired by Jo Koy's stand-up comedy routine. He plays a comic and aspiring actor who goes home to the San Francisco Bay area for Easter.

Actors can spend months preparing for a role, but in the comedy “Easter Sunday,” opening today at theaters nationwide, Filipino American comedian Jo Koy just had to be himself. It’s not as easy as it ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino comedian Alex Calleja takes comedy seriously. After all, this is his bread and butter. He is the first and so far, the only Filipino who has reached the Top 5 in Laugh ...

'There is a reason why aspiring comics like me come back to do open-mics, even if we bombed the last time' It is almost nine in the evening at Mow’s, a bar at the basement of a Chinese restaurant in ...

Jo Koy’s ‘Just Being Koy’ tour brings side-splitting laughter to Abu Dhabi! Filipino-American comedy sensation Jo Koy is bringing his “Just Being Koy Tour” to Etihad Arena, Yas Island on Thursday, May ...

The female experience – with all its struggles and pleasures – is a comedy goldmine, and with women comics taking the mic, that goldmine is finally being tapped Women are funny. It’s a statement so ...

Comedy Manila, a 3-month-old group, is out to change the usual Filipino stand-up comedy dished out in comedy bars, where laughter is mostly elicited by insulting some people in the audience. In this ...

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcast on April 14, 2022. Find that audio here. Jo Koy built a successful stand-up career mining his Filipino heritage, with sold-out shows and three Netflix ...

Patricia Dinglasan, a former corporate beauty executive from the Bay Area, was pregnant with her second child when she decided to trade safety nets for punchlines. Looking back, the now-48-year-old ...

Comedian Jo Koy will bring his Funny Is Funny World Tour to The Stockton Arena at 8 p.m. Nov. 18. Tickets (starting at $35.50) are now on sale at Ticketmaster. Koy, who began his career performing ...