Allan Johnson

Do not adjust your eyes. This is the regularly scheduled comedy column. It's just that a little talk about television is in order. Sometimes you think a TV show that...

Let's get this out of the way right now: Howie Mandel barely has an act. Most of his material is pointless, sophomoric and lacking any true wit or intelligence. So...

So that's the reason Wendy Liebman's material is structured the way it is. She talks like that all the time. Liebman's method is to tell a joke and then add...

Say you had a great season with your team. You'd expect to post the same numbers the following year, right? Well, not always. "I think it's called reality," says Frank...

Michael Winslow had his future-peering turban on years ago. He knew the comedy boom of the early- to mid-1980s wouldn't last forever. He knew it was just a matter of...

Chicago probably has never been more well-represented than this year at the Just For Laughs Montreal International Comedy Festival. That's the annual laugh-a-thon that celebrated its 13th year of presenting...

Talk to most comedians, and they'll say their act was influenced by a legendary comic. But depending on the legend, chances are that a standup might never have met the...

It's been a week since police found the body of 10-year-old Christopher Meyer in a shallow grave in Kankakee River State Park. Yet although the weeklong search for Christopher has...

There's a new wave of comedy moving across the country, and Matt Besser couldn't be happier about it. For want of a better term, it's being called "alternative" comedy. That...

If "Babe" is nominated for an Academy Award, you won't see just one pig hogging all of the glory. Try 48! That's how many pigs it took to make the...