3+ hour, 26+ min ago  (320+ words) Given his knack for making jokes about tragedies shortly after they occurred, it's a safe bet that Gilbert Gottfried's work will forever be associated with the phrase "too soon." Fittingly, those two words would end up on his tombstone following…...

3+ hour, 34+ min ago  (588+ words) There's a delightfully meta quality to the final season of "Hacks." After four seasons devoted to watching Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) rise above her aging Las Vegas residency, Deborah takes a hard, sobering look at what her own legacy is…...

2+ hour, 7+ min ago  (538+ words) In 1944, a teenage Mel Brooks was drafted by the U.S. Army and sent off to fight in World War II. The future comedian served as both a combat engineer and a corporal, and even participated in the Battle of the Bulge, during…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (520+ words) Actor'Paul Reubens'never got the opportunity to sit across from Johnny Carson as a guest on "The Tonight Show," and he always wondered why." According to the book "Love Johnny Carson," written by Mark Malkoff, the actor, known for playing the…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (748+ words) Lucia Aniello always knew it would end this way. A decade ago, she and her writing partners, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky, began sketching out a comedy of generational divide between a boomer standup diva and the millennial joke writer…...

3+ day, 52+ min ago  (255+ words) Eugene Mirman appears to be in good spirits after being injured in a fiery car crash. The comedian and "Bob's Burgers" actor shared an Instagram update Friday to reassure fans he is "doing relatively alright, all things considered." Mirman was…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (583+ words) Comedian Andrew Dice Clay will be remembered for his dirty nursery rhymes. At the height of the comedian's popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, fans attending his stand-up shows would yell out the punchlines to his jokes like concertgoers singing…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (245+ words) Elmer L. Rice's 1923 experimental drama gets a refresh, starring Daphne Rubin-Vega as Mr. Zero, a worker outraged at being replaced by a machine, opposite Jennifer Tilly as his wife; Sarita Choudhury as his colleague; and Michael Cyril Creighton as everyone else....

6+ day, 7+ hour ago  (445+ words) In the early 1990s, Bobcat Goldthwait earned himself a reputation for being an unpredictable talk show guest. During a November 1993 appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Goldthwait knocked over the furniture on the set after O'Brien made a joke about…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (403+ words) Comedian Alex Duong had faith he would beat his cancer just two months before he tragically died. Duong battled alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer affecting soft tissue, for a year before he died Saturday. He was 42 years old....