Allan Johnson

One of the better-known acts during Chicago's comedy boom of the 1980s was the team of Steve & Leo. Steve Rudnick and Leo Benvenuti were that rare stand-up phenomenon, a...

The networks will be at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia Monday through Thursday, but news junkies will need cable if they want to get any meaty coverage. Fox News...

Morgan Moss, a self-described teenage rebel in Highland Park, had a wreck of a bedroom and attitude to spare. His father, an art consultant, was fed up. Alan Moss took...

`The Rocky LaPorte Show" remains "on hold," while the Rocky LaPorte show continues to make its way around the country, according to the star of both. "What we've heard lately...

Audiences have been thrilling to "X-Men," the new hit film based on the Marvel comic series about mutants with special powers. For those who know the comic-book originals, however, the...

There's nothing like chilling out at a baseball game on a warm July evening. For baseball fan Lenny Schmidt, it was a near-perfect evening at Comiskey Park, where he was...

Film Two classic American films noir have been re-released this week: Billy Wilder's masterly 1950 Hollywood expose "Sunset Boulevard" and the Coen Brothers' hellacious debut thriller "Blood Simple." Both of...

Now you can jump on the "Will & Grace" gravy train before it pulls away from the comedy station. NBC is airing six episodes of the sassy comedy back to...

Be it the violence, the sex, the music or an actual consciousness for trying to say something beyond the violence, sex or music, there were a handful of so-called "Blaxploitation"...

Eric Idle isn't a stand-up, but his comic sensibilities and timing are better than any ten comedians. He has experience galore thanks to working with a little sketch comedy group--Monty...