Stargazing | 'Full House' tell-all, 'Dallas' reprise?
Kansas City Star
Comedian Soupy Sales, who died Thursday at age 83 after years of declining health, was mourned Friday by family and friends in the entertainment industry. Longtime friend Dave Usher, also his former manager, said Sales had many health probl...
From his mouth to God’s e-mail
Boston Globe
At 87, Carl Reiner is a busy guy. The Emmy-winning writer of “The Dick Van Dyke Show,’’ comedian, producer, and director has recently released two books. One is a children’s story, “Tell Me Another Scary Story . . . But Not Too Scary ...
LA private eye pleads no contest in threat case
sign on sandiego.com
Pellicano was accused of wiretapping stars such as Sylvester Stallone and bribing police officers to run names of people, including comedian Garry Shandling, through law enforcement databases. Authorities also found information on Busch con...
US comedian Soupy Sales dies at 83: media
Yahoo News
Born in 1926 and starting his career in television in Detroit, Michigan , Supman made his name on screen as an improvising slapstick performer in Los Angeles in the 1960s and later in New York. His biggest break came with the wildly success...
The Irritating Turns on a Road to Recovery
New York Times
Ms. Allen has worked as a journalist and a stand-up comic, and she brings to her show a combination of the writer’s cool, observational eye and the comedian’s gift for making humor out of anger. Though Mr. Lapine and Mr. Katz (with expert ....
Felix Bowness: The jockey Fred Quilly in 'Hi-de-Hi!'
The Independent
The all-round entertainer Felix Bowness found fame in his sixties as Fred Quilly, the suspended jockey employed as a riding instructor at Maplin's holiday camp in Hi-de-Hi!, after spending much of his working life as a variety comedian, ext...
Tickets on sale for comedian's act
Owen Sound Sun Times
Standup comedian Derek Edwards will take the stage at the Roxy at 8 p. m. Dec. 17. Edwards is a a Montreal Just for Laughs veteran and winner of Best Standup Comic at the Canadian Comedy Awards. Tickets, which go on sale Monday, are availab...
David Sedaris gets us laughing at others — and ourselves
Kansas City Star
For Sedaris, a well-known humorist, writer, comedian and author, the brain is always on call for new stuff. Almost any situation is ripe with substance, even if the fire was minor and your only act of heroism was showing someone the way out...
Comedian Susie Essman Plays 'Not My Job'
NPR News
Comedian Susie Essman is definitely not a saint: She's best known for her profanity-laden tirades at Larry David in her role as Susie Greene on Curb Your Enthusiasm . And her new book — What Would Susie Say — has a subtitle that we can't sa...
Comedy's pie-faced Soupy Sales dies
detnews.com
Detroit -- Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, died Thursday. He was 83. Sales died at Calvary Hospic...
Ford driver is going after cities' keys
Detroit Free Press
To earn a key to the city, the 33-year-old New York comedian offers to do community service. His volunteer assignments have included cleaning up after police horses in Lancaster, Pa., and working for an afterschool children's program in Tam...
Having fun being funny
Miami Herald
Since being funny comes naturally to comedian Kym Whitley , she couldn't imagine being anything else. ``The best thing in life is to do what you love and to get paid for it,'' says Whitley from downtown's Doubletree-Grand Hotel. ``I would d...
Catherine Tate's foul-mouthed Nan Taylor becomes Scrooge in Christmas ...
Daily Mail
Spooky: Nan Taylor is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past, played by comedian Ben Miller In Victorian costume, Miller leads Nan through the snowy streets of east London. He is expected to take her back in time ...
