Even if you don’t know Sabrina Brier, chances are you’ve already met one of the many “friends” she plays on TikTok. Best known for her New York-set point-of-view videos, the prolific 29-year-old ...

Owners and staff star in a new generation of goofy commercials on social media. Judy Wang makes delightfully bizarre TikToks to advertise her restaurant, Judy’s Family Cafe, in Galesburg, Ill.Credit..

It doesn’t build slowly like a sitcom, or unfurl as witty repartee in a novel. It doesn’t explain itself like a stand-up routine. Instead, it hits fast, surprises us, and vanishes. Absurdism, as a ...

Through TikTok’s rise and the now-looming threat of its being banned — many states have some kind of ban on the app already — the social platform has undeniably made people laugh and, inadvertently, ...

Five years ago, Jack Innanen made a promise to himself. It was September 2019, and he’d been playing around making “cringey videos” on a new platform called TikTok. “I gave myself a goal to post every ...

Stand-up comic Nimesh Patel sometimes asks his audience: Who is here because of TikTok? “The first thing I noticed was the diversity,” he says. His TikTok videos brought out comedy fans in their 20s ...

W hen Morgan Jay was cast on a prime-time TV show, he thought he’d finally gotten his big break. “I never really wanted to be doing social media. First, you had to post on YouTube, then it was ...

L ike all good children of immigrants, Charlene Kaye greets me with a gift. The shirt is emblazoned with neon-pink lightning, the title of her comedy show, Tiger Daughter, in a Def Leppard font, and a ...

When Matt Mathews posed for photos to promote his new comedy tour, he brought along two of his best friends: chickens named Fluffy and Sister. The Alabama man was wearing a bathrobe — his fans will ...