Allan Johnson

The new fall TV shows won't be announced for a few weeks, but we already know what new Saturday morning cartoons are coming on. Want us to spill it? OK,...

Kate Clinton is not just a comic. She has several labels that she can easily go by. Let's take them one at a time: Feminist comic: To Clinton, the term...

To get in the eco-mood, check out ABC's "Wild Things: An Earth Day Special" Saturday at 11:30 a.m. Central Time. It's about three kids (Jodie Sweetin of "Full House," Jonathan...

Standup comic Jim Breuer isn't buddies with "Buddies" anymore. Breuer and Dave Chappelle were to star in "Buddies," a new ABC comedy that was to premiere next Tuesday, at 8:30...

"My So-Called Life" is coming back... to MTV. The music video network is running all 19 episodes of the way-cool teenager TV show Monday through Friday at 6 p.m. Central...

Things Margaret Cho learned in her first year as a big-shot TV star: - You get recognized a lot. "I actually had a bunch of people chase me down the...

How far would you go to win? That's the question surrounding a team of students at Chicago's Steinmetz High School. They were stripped of their Illinois Academic Decathlon championship over...

Brian McCann should be schussing on a comedy stage in Aspen, Colo., sometime this weekend. McCann, a fixture on the local comedy scene, is participating in the U.S. Comedy Arts...

You can get super close to real-life action with "Midnight Raiders" (Sega CD, $60), a home video game that uses live pictures instead of animation shots. But any way you...

There seem to be some signs of life at the Comedy Womb, the longtime showcase comedy club in Lyons. And you probably can thank Orlando Reyes for that. Reyes, a...