Hector Sifuentes doesn’t know it yet, but in a few hours, he’ll have one of the best nights of his life. He’s calling from Austin, where he has a stand-up comedy gig at Ani’s Day and Night, a coffee ...

No matter how quick the wit, no stand-up comic starts out a success. Forget the top: on the way to the bottom rung, comics need to endure endless open-mic tryouts, log thousands of miles for little or ...