Editor's Note: This post contains language some readers might find offensive. Named in 2014 as "The World's Funniest Person" in a contest sponsored by the Los Angeles comedy club The Laugh Factory, ...

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities The charming quirks of the English language are on full display in a series of new ...

Quite the contrary, he’s got a whopping trade in funnies about the idiosyncrasies (silent letters, especially get his goat) and tricky phonetics of the English language. In his intelligent way, he ...

Comedy Works has announced that ISMO will perform at Comedy Works Downtown in Larimer Square. ISMO started his comedy career in 2002 in his home country of Finland; becoming one of their top ...

HOUSTON — Finnish comedian, Ismo, once commanded a military unit and studied physics in college, but chose to follow a career in stand-up comedy instead. It turned out to be the right decision because ...

Named in 2014 as "The World's Funniest Person" in a contest sponsored by LA Comedy Club "The Laugh Factory," comedian Ismo Leikola, or Ismo, has made a career out of mining his Finnish outsider status ...

Merry Christmas to all up here visiting and well, if you’re atheist or undecided, just “Merry” to ya! There’s some good stuff happening in the world of the funny starting with the comedian who goes ...

Nearly four years have passed since Ismo decided to leave the comforts of his native Finland and take a crack at the U.S. comedy scene. He quickly found a home on the stand-up circuit, booking his ...

A-list Finnish comic Ismo Leikola talks about working in Britain, America, and his new Fringe show. 1. Tell us about your career so far. Are you happy with where you're at? My first gigs were in 2002, ...

ISMO is Finland's biggest comedian, winner of "The Funniest Person in the World" title and regular star of US television having appeared on Last Call with Carson Daly, Conan, The Late Late Show with ...

Hal Cruttenden gives as a glimpse of his show to be presented in the 2017 Comedy Festival. The funniest comedian in the world, officially that is, hails from Finland, speaks English as a second ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: ICS Nordic, the Finland-based production house of Ilkka Hynninen and Ilkka Rahkonen, is pushing into the live comedy ...