Comedian Bill Cosby received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Monday after refusing to accept the award twice in the past.
Writer and producer Larry Gelbart, most known for his work on the hit television series "M*A*S*H," died Friday morning in his Beverly Hills, California, home, his wife said. He was 81.
Stephanie Courtney has appeared as perky insurance expert Flo in more than 20 ads
Judd Apatow is the man behind many of the most successful comic movies of recent years.
As Elvis croons in the casino chapel, 1-year-old son Valentine walks his actress mom down the aisle
Given a cast of Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, and the guiding hand of director and writer Judd Apatow ("Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"), perhaps there is no more appropriate title than simply "Funny People."
Celebrity chef Bobby Chinn has tried his hand at a number of things.
Five things you didn't know - but should - about the hairy and hilarious Hangover actor
After taking time off to recover, the funnyman resumes his comedy tour this fall
Generations of standup comedians never saw this coming.
Comedian Bill Cosby received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Monday after refusing to accept the award twice in the past.
Writer and producer Larry Gelbart, most known for his work on the hit television series "M*A*S*H," died Friday morning in his Beverly Hills, California, home, his wife said. He was 81.
Stephanie Courtney has appeared as perky insurance expert Flo in more than 20 ads
Judd Apatow is the man behind many of the most successful comic movies of recent years.
As Elvis croons in the casino chapel, 1-year-old son Valentine walks his actress mom down the aisle
Given a cast of Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill, and the guiding hand of director and writer Judd Apatow ("Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"), perhaps there is no more appropriate title than simply "Funny People."
Celebrity chef Bobby Chinn has tried his hand at a number of things.
Five things you didn't know - but should - about the hairy and hilarious Hangover actor
After taking time off to recover, the funnyman resumes his comedy tour this fall
Generations of standup comedians never saw this coming.
Comedienne Margaret Cho knows a great deal about Hollywood's obsession with body image.
"It's an embarrassing thing," Leno tells PEOPLE of the cause of his two days of hospitalization
It was a drizzly night, and I was walking down the street with Luke, my boyfriend at the time, to a comedy club where he was performing that night. He held an umbrella over my head and had his arm wrapped around my shoulder. I should have been giddy, but instead I felt apprehensive.
Comedian Dane Cook took a somber tone and described a sense of "terrible betrayal" in discussing the recent arrest of his half brother, who is accused of embezzling millions from him.
If you're a comedy fan, you've probably heard of him by now.
The comedian pens a song about Cyrus's recent racist photo controversy
Asked about part of the entertainment business he particularly enjoys, Greg Behrendt -- stand-up comedian, author, TV writer and producer -- had an unusual answer.
Lynne Lucas is taking herself off the meat market. Monique Brown is sick of having to look cute all the time. And Scott Hayes is searching for his inner child.
If the craggy, icy west coast of Greenland doesn't inspire them, perhaps Vanessa Carlton's vodka infusions will.
The half-brother of comedian Dane Cook has been accused of swiping millions from him, and has already appeared in court, the Associated Press reports.
The comic reveals what his five sisters taught him about dating
The man who came in second to McCain in the primaries flashed his trademark humor in boosting his old foe at the convention
After publishing a memoir about his career with Cheech Marin, Chong talks with TIME about the politics of pot, his time in jail and reuniting with Marin after 26 years
The comedian blogs about 10 things that "truly blow" about the poster for My Best Friend's Girl
The 50-year-old performer died Saturday morning in a Chicago hospital from complications due to pneumonia
Now that their feud is up in smoke, Cheech and Chong are high on plans to reunite for their first comedy tour in more than 25 years
Estelle Getty, the diminutive actress who spent 40 years struggling for success before landing a role of a lifetime in 1985 as the sarcastic octogenarian Sophia on TV's "The Golden Girls," has died. She was 84.
Appreciation: The groundbreaking stand-up comic, dead at 71, went through a transformation that helped redefine an art form
It's boom-boom time for comedians and satirists. They pack out tents at music festivals, clubs and pubs and fill up the prime time slots on TV and radio. They have colonized multimedia with podcasts, vodcasts and blogs. So if you need cheering up or feel like a laugh, there have never been more places to get it.
Comedian Larry the Cable Guy, who shed 50 lbs. since last year, jokes he's lost so much weight "I'm down an Olsen!"
The strike Jokes, at least, have died down. David Letterman -- back on the air with his writers after making a separate deal with the Writers Guild -- has moved on to wisecracks about the Cloverfield monster and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke. Jay Leno, who has returned sans scribes but is supposedly writing the monologues himself (angering the Guild, which claims he's violating strike rules by doing so), is pummeling viewers with the usual rat-a-tat of gags playing off the headlines, from the presidential primaries to funny animal news.
With an ongoing writers' strike forcing many TV shows into reruns, tube viewers are wondering what they are missing. Some shows are back in production with or without their writers, placing the strike at the forefront of many comedians' routines.
Handed down since Moses was kvetching about having to cross the desert in his bare feet, Jewish humor emanated from Eastern Europe where the Hebrews overcame some seriously hellacious circumstances on the way to the Promised Land. "Laughter through tears," they called it.
Larry the Cable Guy has a new addition: his first little Cable Girl.
So far as I can see, Steve Carell is a rather unremarkable fellow -- which makes him quite an unusual movie star.
Nine years after his sitcom, he's about to resurface. Is there life after fame, wealth and yada yada yada?
A standup routine by black comedian Eddie Griffin was stopped after he repeatedly used the N-word, a magazine's spokesman said Wednesday.
Fake-news program "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" is taking a page from serious news organizations this week with on-the-scene reports from the war zone in Iraq.
Carson was the cool arbiter of taste. Griffin was your enthusiastic showbiz uncle, who gave an early TV break to some groundbreaking talent
Hilary Duff and Nick Cannon have received their share of nominations for Teen Choice awards over the years - and Duff has even won a few of the coveted surfboards. Now, the pair have been tapped to host this year's show, set to air Aug. 26 on FOX.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said Wednesday he refused to accept an apology from actor Michael Richards, who spouted a racist rant at a comedy club last week.
Promotional advertising has become quite the intimate affair in the past few years. Commercial sponsors now pay for couples' weddings and buy space on people's bodies, cars, pets and wheelchairs.
An intellectual adolescent with sex and mother issues -- and his childlike mother, who has issues of her own.
At some point most of us have daydreamed about quitting the climb up the corporate ladder. Who hasn't wondered what it would be like to earn a living as a wine maker, brewmaster, wilderness guide, or horse trainer?
Just days after his 65th birthday, groundbreaking comedian Richard Pryor died Saturday of a heart attack, his wife told CNN.
The White House theater was not built for stand-up comedy. But two Fridays ago, Laura Bush was definitely, as they say at the Friars Club, "in the house."
By Showbiz Standards, Shadowbox Cabaret is a smash hit. The theater troupe, based in Columbus, employs more than 80 salaried actors who put on five different live shows each week. The main act is a...
It's a Thursday afternoon and Lewis Black, looking almost relaxed in jeans, comfortable shirt and leather jacket, is in a good mood. Really.
"Saying don't worry is a stupid thing. You're gonna worry anyway. Everybody worries."
Driving to work can be extremely stressful -- and unhealthy. A stress-management expert tells six ways to calm down and protect your sanity.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If an athlete's true test is improving each time on the field, television network NBC is due for laurels when the Athens Olympics end Sunday, but its greater challenge will be launching new shows like "Joey" in coming weeks.
So, these three comedians walk into a comedy club, right? one's got this gizmo he's developed that measures a standup comic's success by analyzing the sound patterns of recorded comedy performances...
>> It's amateur night at Caroline's on Broadway, a legendary New York City comedy club, and David Moore is working the Monday crowd. "I read that some of Enron's former managers posed nude in Playg...
BOUNDING INTO THE center of the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus in outlandishly padded nurse's drag, clown Elmo Gibb chases down another clown patient and administers a slapstick physical exam that ...
Funny business is booming. In the past decade scores of comedy clubs have opened in the U.S., which is good news for frazzled business travelers. As a diversion, comedy is usually less expensive th...
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