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Van Nuys, CA, Wednesday, March 5, 2025 - Comedian Bert Kreisher at his studio. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Bert Kreischer shares his ‘Lucky’ secret to success in comedy. Hint: It has nothing to do with hard work

Premiering his new Netflix special, ‘Lucky,’ Kreischer talks about the value of good fortune over hard work and the smartest thing he did to retain audiences who stream his comedy.

Comedian Trae Crowder aka the "Liberal Redneck" recently released a new one-hour special.

Too liberal for the South, too redneck for L.A.: Why Trae Crowder’s comedy makes him a man without a country

Los Angeles, CA - January 06:Sarah Mello, Sam Sleiman, and Enrique Salazar sit inside The Upstairs Comedy Club in Downtown LA. The Upstairs Comedy Club on Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Marcus Ubungen / Los Angeles Times)

Postponed by January fires, comedy-industry vets open the Upstairs club downtown

Comedian Russell Howard

Russell Howard on how to tell parenting and political jokes without sounding corny: ‘Authenticity is key’

‘I’m not the only woman who does stand-up’: Iliza Shlesinger on ‘digestible feminism’ and mom brain

John Mulaney returns to late night with Netflix’s ‘Everybody’s Live.’ Here’s what we know

Andrew Schulz talks Trump, fatherhood and his new Netflix special, ‘Life’

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