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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The ultimate observer, ISMO is able to make people see familiar things anew ...

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 ...

Ismo brings us his unique gift of seeing, hearing and understanding the world around us to the fore as he pulls apart the subjects in our everyday lives and finds the funny hidden in plain sight.

Ismo Leikola first performed stand-up in his native Finland in 2002. He was named the country's best newcomer in 2003 and appeared in the TV series Act!One the following year. For three years running ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finland isn't known as a comedy hotbed. But Ismo Leikola, or Ismo, has made a career out of mining his outsider status for comedic gold. Stand-Up Comedian Ismo Leikola Brings Finnish Perspective To ...