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11 stories by "Steve Knopper"

Jay Leno - that jaw, that voice - on the road again by Steve Knopper

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 10:36am on April 13, 2017☆⚑

Burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese achieves a greatness of her own by Steve Knopper

At 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 5:21pm on January 24, 2017☆⚑

Hannibal Buress is here, he's there, he's everywhere by Steve Knopper

The 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 4:00pm on September 7, 2016☆⚑

Carol Burnett, comedy icon, sets up shop in Chicago by Steve Knopper

The "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 12:57pm on May 10, 2016☆⚑

Wanda Sykes is everywhere by Steve Knopper

The 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 4:47pm on April 5, 2016☆⚑

Trevor Noah working hard to fill a big chair (and stage) by Steve Knopper

The 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 7:28pm on March 24, 2016☆⚑

George Lopez is plain-spoken, and no saint by Steve Knopper

The 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 7:30am on January 21, 2016☆⚑

An angry Lewis Black, coming to Rialto Square Theatre by Steve Knopper

The 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 9:28pm on January 21, 2015☆⚑

Blue Man makes magic, even on Christmas Eve by Steve Knopper

After 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 2:55pm on December 18, 2014☆⚑

Sandra Bernhard is funny — in her Bernhard way by Steve Knopper

Sandra 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 10:33am on November 28, 2013☆⚑

Lily Tomlin not lost in the '60s by Steve Knopper

Comedy 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 …

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune Subscription at 11:33am on February 23, 2012☆⚑
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