Allan Johnson

Chicago's Margaret Smith has discovered the joys of parenthood. We did say joys, didn't we? "On a good day, it's incredible," the comedian says. "On a bad day, it's kind...

It isn't really known when the first modern stand-up comedy showcase on cable television appeared. But it could have been HBO's "On Location: Robert Klein" in 1975. The format has...

So why encase yourself in ice when it's not even January? Street magician David Blaine, who "buried" himself in a downtown Manhattan lot last year, plans to place himself in...

Anthony Griffith's wife is a year away from picking up her doctorate in clinical psychology -- "so she can understand me better," Griffith jokes. "Never argue with a psychologist," he...

`Life ain't bad," says Jeff Foxworthy. And by the looks of things, that's a pretty fair assessment. Foxworthy is performing about 100 dates a year. He's presently working with Bill...

Local TV stations will defer to their network counterparts for coverage of Tuesday's national races. Focusing instead on local contests, Channels 2, 5, 7 and 32 will have cut-ins on...

Television Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) is gone -- but he's hovering around somewhere. Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is a reluctant believer -- and she hasn't said who got her pregnant....

What follows is a conversation with Emmy Award-winning stand-up comedian Dennis Miller, 46, about his controversial stint on ABC's "Monday Night Football," his relationship with stand-up comedy and how Tribune...

With his body of work, no one is going to mistake Laurence Fishburne for Jim Carrey. "I am a tragedian. I am not a comedian," the actor says, and ticks...

Veteran comedian Jeff Cesario is known for intelligent, regular-guy observations on everything from life to sports to relationships. Now fans of the comedian are getting to see a new, creatively...