By: Brian Berger

Not poor, just busted.

By: Tucker Cummings

“I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else.”

By: Adam McGovern

It’s never too late to be too soon.

By: Dan Reines

A high-wire kind of funny.

By: Matthew De Abaitua

I’m not so much killing my darlings as massacring them

By: Greg Rowland

France had Existentialism; England had Hancock.

By: David Smay

He generated fields of pure unexpected looniness.

By: Patrick Cates

Britain’s only renaissance hooligan.

By: Patrick Cates

He punctuated class-centric British life with absurd question marks.

By: Edrie

jojo the Burlesque Poetess “Rock out With her Frock out”

By: Greg Rowland

He took the weight of English sexual anxiety on his shoulders.

By: Katie Hennessey

A high school dropout who learned his trade on the Borscht Belt summer circuit, DANNY KAYE’s (1913-87) first taste of Broadway fame came with the 1941 Gershwin-Weill tongue-twister “Tchaikovsky (and other Russians),” in which he […]

By: David Smay

The 1960s was a terrible decade for film and television comedy, but it did produce a stellar class of comedians working the beatnik demimonde: Mort Sahl, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Joan Rivers, George Carlin, Bill […]

By: Patrick Cates

If you were to approach STEPHEN MERCHANT (born 1974) and berate him for looking like a myopic ostrich, he would stare vacantly back at you and, after a pause suffused with the awkward comedic tension […]

By: Franklin Bruno

Like Bea Arthur, Pearl Bailey, and Redd Foxx, the televisual omnipresence of JULIUS “NIPSEY” RUSSELL (1918?-2005) belied his status as a veteran of less sanitized showbiz pursuits. He tap-danced his way out of his native […]