Allan Johnson

Every comic has had a performance that was so perfect, with dead-on timing, crisp jokes and a white-hot, responsive audience, that they wished it had been captured on videotape. Mike...

Oh, for the good old days. The days when you could go to a comedy club on an open-mic/amateur night and see raw talent as it developed. For comics, it...

Cold? What cold? Who can think about the cold when it's baseball season? (Well, sort of.) Both the Cubs and the White Sox have their annual conventions in the next...

You're geeked. Imagine being in the same room with heroes like Frank Thomas and Ryne Sandberg - and they're going to sign something for you - if you time it...

The couple that laughs together, baths together (OK, so that's not a very good line, but you get the idea). And that's a great description of Romie Angelich and Peter...

Peter Pitofsky throws himself around the comedy stage with the greatest of ease. The former Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey clown does flips, belly-flops, trips and other antics, sometimes...

She's called Monique the Mistress of Comedy. And she comes in quite a package. Please don't write letters to this column charging sexist remarks, because Monique would probably say the...

The Assault of Standup Comics with Television Shows continues, with NBC's "The Good Life" kicking off the new year. Some weeks back, the Tribune's TV Week magazine ran an extremely...

Let's light the candle on 1994 right, with an up-to-the-minute comedy quiz. Guess who's working at the comedy clubs on New Year's Eve, using his or her joke as a...

Phyllis Diller once said that comics should never let up when they've got laughing people on the ropes. Those are words that Wendy Liebman lives by. In fact, Liebman was...