While watching the Major League Baseball all-star game selection show (?!?) on TV Sunday afternoon, it suddenly occurred to me that I no longer have much interest in watching Zack Greinke pitch to Albert Pujols, even if home field in the World Series is riding on the outcome. This is what I get for not being a kid anymore. However, I ...

Poverty made Mike Epps run. “I grew up poor,” he says. “When you grow up poor, you have to entertain yourself to keep from being hungry.” The 38-year-old actor and comedian took a break in Los Angeles to talk by phone about his busy schedule and about his engagement at the Orleans tonight and Saturday. He slips in and out ...

The hell-raising attitude is there. The prominent chin is there. Even the name is there. This summer, Edinburgh Fringe Festival posters will boast one of the biggest draws in comedy history: R Pryor is on the bill.
But this is not Richard Pryor, the influential black comic who became as well known for his extreme lifestyle as for his blistering ...

No other type of entertainment requires as much guts and gumption as live comedy. To get up in front of an audience of strangers with the explicit intention of making them laugh is something very few sane people would dare attempt. Fail and you 'die', suffering the kind of public humiliation that would render most of us hopeless psychological wrecks ...