The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Merrill Markoe, the Emmy-winning original head writer for Late Night with David Letterman, has begun auctioning off some items from her closet. The first item up for bids: An original 1982 Late Night letter jacket. Bidding started at $500 and is at $2,600 with one day before the auction closes …
Nate D. Sanders Auctions is still accepting bids on many items from Moe Howard’s personal memorabilia this week. Hey Moe! The auction opened Monday, featuring more than 1,100 pieces from The Three Stooges frontman. Although some of the lots already ended open bidding, some items remain available via extended bidding. …
An auction last week of items from the estate of Bob Hope included the sale of thousands of jokes typed up on index cards for the legendary comedian. Many of the auction items dated from Hope’s USO tours. There also were lots of military pins, hats and collectibles given to …
Would you like a signed copy of Amy Poehler’s book, “Yes, Please?” Yes, please! How about the original paper mache art sculpture of Maria Bamford’s pug Arnold that appears throughout Bamford’s Netflix special, Old Baby? Those things and much more, plus personal items owned by dozens of Los Angeles comedians …
A year and a half after she died, the late great Joan Rivers still has an estate and a NYC penthouse apartment, and hundreds of items from her estate will come up for auction this summer. Christies will host “The Private Collection of Joan Rivers” from June 16-23, 2016, with …
Sam Simon wanted to be known as much for his charitable contributions to society as for his comedic contributions, and half a year after his death, hundreds of his artistic works and memorabilia are up for auction at Sotheby’s. As the auction house noted this summer: “Over a series of …
This week, a grand Hollwyood memorabilia auction saw the original Cowardly Lion costume from The Wizard from Oz, as well as the piano Sam plays it again on in Casablanca go for more than $3 million each. Bonham New York’s TCM Presents…There’s No Place Like Hollywood auction sold almost 90% of its …
Can you outbid $910 to win and wear the “Sexy Vagina” costume this Halloween? That’s where things stood at 11:30 a.m. Eastern today, with a day and a few hours remaining in the eBay auction for the vagina, er, vulva, displayed by The Daily Show‘s correspondent Kristen Schaal during her …
Milton Berle was “Uncle Miltie” to the first generation of Americans to own televisions. And to a generation of comedians, Berle also was the father of joke thievery. Having his private joke files on the auction block in Los Angeles means we may chance upon rare artificats that once and …
