Allan Johnson

It's called the "Pudgy's Gotta Heart Tour," and that's not to say the comedian never did. What she does have is a recently repaired ticker. The Chicago-born "Queen of Tease,"...

More than a century ago, Victorian sage Thomas Carlyle said the world needed more heroes. In our own time, artist Kathleen Schimert is fascinated by hero-worship and has produced a...

It's more than a little appropriate that a CD collection of the late Bill Hicks would come out in February. One of the most brilliant young comedians to come out...

Scott Thompson's parents were none too pleased when they found out about one of the most important changes in their son's life. His mother still thinks he can return to...

If the Academy Awards' long-standing aversion to giving statues to anything related to comedy holds true, then Frances McDormand and Cuba Gooding Jr. will be disappointed next month. At least...

Performing standup comedy doesn't just mean making people laugh. It also gives the performer a certain amount of confidence when interacting with others. That strength is derived from being able...

You can be a Weasel only so many times . . . Pauly Shore, whose dim-bulb character the Weasel shot him to fame via MTV, is trying to expand his...

Mike MacDonald has always been something of a renegade in comedy. That he is writing movie and television scripts isn't all that unusual. But the type of material the aggressively...

Steve Landesberg will be telling jokes at Zanies' two comedy clubs this weekend. And you're probably saying to yourself, "Yeah, and?" But you see, Landesberg, besides being well-known for playing...

You may have seen them at certain standup comedy shows. Chances are you've even doled out cash for them. They're the merchandise that some comics sell either before or after...