Allan Johnson

The next Adele Givens and Cedric "The Entertainer" will be selected Friday at the Park West, as the 8th annual Miller Genuine Draft Comedy Search takes place. The reason we...

Martin Lawrence's Saturday night standup comedy show at the Rosemont Horizon has been called off, it was announced Tuesday. Horizon publicists gave no official reason for the show's cancellation. But...

Remember when Six LeMuere of NBC's "Blossom" flaked for a time this past year? The problems she had with alcohol? The fling with an older guy who had kids? The...

`Comic Justice," Comedy Central's weekly standup comedy show featuring minority acts, has kicked off its second season with episodes that were taped at the Ebony Showcase Theater in South Central...

Robert Schimmel is confessing his "sins" as a public service for his audiences. That's the theory one woman gave him on why his raunchy, adult-based humor goes over so well....

Maybe Willy's not so free after all. Keiko, the acting killer whale who plays "Willy," will be swishing around theaters again soon: "Free Willy 2" just started shooting in Washington...

A live-action "Beavis & Butt-head" movie? Cool. Rumors are floating that the two metal-head, gross-out cartoon hosts of MTV's music video review/adventure show are headed for the big screen. No...

Laugh at Wild Willy Parsons. He dares you. Parsons is billed as the world's only biker comic. Checking in at 6 feet 2 and 285 pounds, with a thick beard,...

Blacks in South Africa have been denied equality for almost 50 years. But just when it seems they're moving toward it, violence threatens that dream. South Africans will vote for...

If you talk to anyone about South Central Los Angeles, the first thing they'll probably think about is the riots that happened there a few years ago after the first...