2+ hour, 50+ min ago   (301+ words) Philippe Gaulier built a career tormenting would-be clowns and comedians'and they flocked to him for it. The New York Times reports that the French teacher, whose students... Man Who Taught the Stars to Clown Is Dead at 82 Philippe Gaulier built…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (168+ words) Former cast members of SCTV, from left, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, foreground, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy and Martin Short, pose at the US Comedy Arts Festival on March 6, 1999, in Aspen, Colo. Catherine O'Hara Left Legacy of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (388+ words) Frank M. Young never thought much of the Beetle Bailey comic strip, but that's mainly because he read it in the 1990s and after, by which time it had morphed into "predictable"... Poor Beetle Bailey: His Decline Speaks Volumes Young contrasts a…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (473+ words) Nikki Glaser went hard then eased up in her monologue to open Sunday's Golden Globes, the AP reports. In her earliest jokes she suggested stars in the room might be in the... Nikki Glaser's Monologue Targets at Globes Include DOJ,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (325+ words) Christmas at a century-old Liverpool movie house came with a bonus feature not listed on the marquee. When Woolton Picture House, the city's oldest surviving cinema, briefly reopened for a Christmas run after shuttering in 2020, 26-year-old Jacob Molloy decided it…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (235+ words) Saturday Night Live writer Jimmy Fowlie is turning to the public for help as Los Angeles police search for his missing sister, Christina Lynn Downer. In an Instagram post shared Monday, the 40-year-old comedy writer said his family fears the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (391+ words) Helen Siff, a veteran character actor whose face popped up in films from Rocky to You Don't Mess With the Zohan , has died at 88. Her family said she died Thursday in Los Angeles from complications following surgery related to a…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (331+ words) The New York Times Style Magazine is going big on Generation X, as evidenced by the headline on its cover story: "Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?" Writer Amanda Fortini, herself a member, focuses on how a group often…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (792+ words) Tom Stoppard, a playwright who won five Tony Awards and an Oscar for Shakespeare in Love while mixing clever wordplay with philosophic depth, has died. He was 88. Stoppard died at his home in Dorset, England, his agents announced, per the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (331+ words) It might seem like Kim Kardashian found the basement of bad television with her universally trashed "legal drama," All's Fair, but she had plenty of company in the race to the bottom. ScreenRant takes a gleeful look around the medium…...