There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the ...

Ryan Heffernan is a Senior Writer at Collider. Storytelling has been one of his interests since an early age, with his appreciation for film and television becoming a particular interest of his during ...

Watch clips of the comedians' early days in Los Angeles. Los Angeles in the mid-1970s was a very funny place to be. Class clowns from all over the country were flocking to the city, inspired by ...

In the 1970s, you knew the holidays were upon you when celebrity Christmas specials started falling like snowflakes. The ...

Reiser's journey into the world of stand-up began in New York City during the 1970s. As he reminisces about his childhood, he shares, "When I was a kid, I was an aficionado of stand-up, but never knew ...

There is no genre more near and dear to my heart than comedy. The skills necessary to make others laugh -- whether live and in-person or through a screen -- are a unique and beautiful combination that ...

It was a full circle moment for Sebastian Maniscalco when he sat down at the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills to talk to ...

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As a young boy, growing up in a trailer park, Dusty never felt like he was poor. He didn’t even know folks were better off ...