Allan Johnson

Television? Who needs television? Movies? Fie on movies! When you've got 5 million radio listeners a day hinged on your every word, that has exposure through movies and TV beat....

To paraphrase a popular saying, dying is easy, but getting into comedy has gotten harder over the years. There aren't as many comedy clubs as there used to be five...

Talk-show host-cum-TV news commentator Jerry Springer on Wednesday disputed a Cincinnati newspaper's report that, in his first commentary on WMAQ-Ch. 5 news, Springer lied about his role in a free-speech...

We wrote more than six years ago about Diane Alaimo, a talented comedian who at the time was quitting her day job at an airbrush manufacturer to make people laugh...

Director Bryan Spicer learned a valuable lesson on the set of the new action comedy "McHale's Navy": Never ask comedians to freely give suggestions. Among the cast for the big-screen...

With 15 years of standup comedy under his belt, Dean Haglund isn't just cashing in on his sudden popularity in a recurring role on Fox's wildly popular science-fiction series, "The...

Wayne Cotter was one of the mainstay national acts to visit Chicago frequently in the go-go comedy days of the mid-to-late 1980s and early '90s. Back then, the sarcastically funny...

Sometimes there is no easy way to face an issue except head on. Howie Mandel is an example of that, so here's the thing: Mandel isn't favored by a lot...

John Wing is a master of the modern one-liner. He specializes in putting a hip spin on the Henny Youngman-type bang-bang jokes, the results of which are light-years removed from...

Try to imagine television's sword-swinging, leg-kicking, horseback-riding Xena daintily dabbing some nail polish on a finger That's what we saw on Lucy Lawless, who plays TV's warrior princess. We met...