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April Fools' Day has arrived, so we should talk about some fools. Or at least some people who have perceived fools through history, especially fools…
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Freak out your loved ones: tell them you want to change your career to comedy. Laughing is fun, but it takes work to produce laughs, and often little…
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Audrey Murray is a writer and comedian with a bit of an obsession with Russia. Not in a mess-with-elections kind of way, mind you. But she did spend some…
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Tiny Yreka is hard enough to find on a map. It's unlikely place for a regional comedy tour. But audiences get a chance to gather and laugh later this week…
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John and Gordan Javna are no strangers to the sound of laughing. They produce a lot of it themselves: John started, and Gordon continued, the series Uncle…
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A professor of Yiddish literature and a journalist walk into a studio. You were expecting a joke? Actually, there will likely be several as we visit with…
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John Hodgman gained fame for his wry and dry look at the world around us, on venues like Comedy Central's "The Daily Show." He wrote three books of "fake…
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Paula Poundstone creates prodigious amounts of comic material for her stage act. And then doesn't use all of it. Because she works the crowd and makes up…
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It may be harder to describe the work of comedians than any other performers.And harder still when you try to describe or explain the work of the late…