Last year's concert of The Opera House Benefit Concert Series featured Mike Ridley and Billy Jewell in concert together for the third time. Read More
Last year's concert of The Opera House Benefit Concert Series featured Mike Ridley and Billy Jewell in concert together for the third time. Read More
The Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase is 25, and that's no joke. Read More
The centerpiece of the book is the labor discontent between comedians and the Comedy Store that kicked up in 1979, when comedians saw the money coming into the venue and started to wonder why some of the working comics there had to borrow money for breakfast. Read More
Comedian and writer Merrill Markoe was one of the creators of the David Letterman Show . Read More
William Knoedelseder's 'I'm Dying Up Here' finds the young Leno, Letterman, Lewis, Williams struggling to make it in L.A. Published: September 06. Read More
From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by Stephen Reiss In April 1972, a moderately successful comic named Sammy Shore opened a small club in Los Angeles called the Comedy Store. Read More
Actor Henry G. Sanders from "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" is 67. Read More
Elayne Boosler was born in Brooklyn on August 18, 1952. Read More
Actor Gary Clarke ("Hondo," "The Virginian") is 73. Read More
Elayne Boosler came on the comedy scene when "nice girls didn't do standup." She is often hailed as the "very first young, ... Read the full Elayne Boosler bio.