Allan Johnson

Andy Kindler is widely known as a crusader against hack comedy -- jokes and bits that are so easy, so tired in their concepts and so readily used by some...

Sometimes you look at the television schedule, and it's enough to make you want to throw the remote control at the picture tube. Where do TV guys get off deciding...

Roy Leonard was watching the raunchy hit comedy "There's Something About Mary" some weeks back, and just couldn't relate to the various scenes of bad taste. "Maybe I'm out of...

It may be hard for some big-shots in the entertainment industry to remember, but almost everyone started at the bottom of said industry at one point in his or her...

Those Los Angeles people, they're just too trendy for their own good. Jason Stuart was calling from his health club, in the middle of a 30-minute sweat-athon on a contraption...

The job of a comedian is obviously to entertain the audience. But sometimes comics do a show just for themselves, audience be hanged. That was the frame of mind Julia...

`I've never had `Ray Romano Appearing . . .' at a theater," says the standup comedian and television star about headlining a venue larger than a comedy club. That's what...

It makes good sense that comedian Louis Johnson would try a joke out on his wife, Karen, first, before taking it to the stage. Who else could a comic trust...

Rock: Sean Lennon and Rufus Wainwright are blessed and burdened with famous surnames. Both have promising debut albums out, with Wainwright's blend of lounge and other prerock styles particularly intriguing....

Many established comics will tell you that to get to where they are now, they had to endure a lot of late-night gigs. Going onstage at 1 or 2 o'clock...