Everything about a phone interview with Jay Leno is easy. He calls 15 minutes earlier than the scheduled time. He happily answers every question, even the tough ones about NBC and Conan O'Br…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:36AMAt 4 years old, Heather Sweet of tiny West Branch, Mich., did not see herself as a burlesque dancer who would take off her clothes and bathe in a giant martini glass onstage. If anything, li…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 05:21PMThe thing Hannibal Buress mainly remembers about visiting New Orleans is the parades. A friend told him that for $300, "you can have your own parade on a day's notice." So Buress, 33, marche…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:00PMThe "Mary Worthless" sketch, in which Carol Burnett wears an old-lady wig and lampoons the Sunday funnies' most annoying busybody, was not as terrible as the sketch-comedy heroine recalls. I…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 12:57PMThe night of the Academy Awards, Wanda Sykes boarded an 8 p.m. flight from New York to Los Angeles. Just before the doors closed, she fired up Twitter to inquire about streaming the broadcas…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 04:47PMThe day after Ben Carson drops out of the presidential race, leaving a trail of weird childhood knife-fight stories, fake Josef Stalin quotes and fumbling entrances to debate stages, Trevor …
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:28PMThe Black and Brown Comedy Get Down, starring George Lopez, Eddie Griffin, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley and Mike Epps, is dead. Long live the Comedy Get Down. "It wasn't the blacks a…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 07:30AMThe terrible events in Paris this month may suggest social satirists who roast religious figures must fear for their lives. But Lewis Black, the veteran stand-up comedian who once declared G…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 09:28PMAfter all the Jingle Balls, Smooth Jazz Christmases and Holiday Singalongs have packed up their Santa hats, after the Mannheim Steamrollers and Andrea Bocellis have vacated the city, after t…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 02:55PMSandra Bernhard makes a correction. She did not cry the first time she tried stand-up comedy at The Improv club in Los Angeles in the late '70s. "I cried once I was doing it for a few months…
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 10:33AMComedy legend offers mix of laughs, gravitas BY STEVE KNOPPER ... Lily Tomlin is talking about her middle finger. In 2003 she told a reporter that on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," the TV …
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