Area Woman Mourns Ironic Death: Remembering The Onion’s newspaper days
by Before there was the viral video, before the Internet meme, before the Tweet and ReTweet, the Huffington Post and the Colbert Bump, there was The …
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Comedian Kenneth “KD” Brown, 40, killed trying to stop Vegas nightclub gunman
by Kenneth Brown, who went by Kd Brown on Facebook and KD, K.D. or Kenny Brown elsewhere, was killed early Monday morning after tacking a shooter …
R.I.P. Monty Hoffman (1952-2013)
Monty Hoffman, one of the funny people gathered for a roundtable pep talk about comedy with Adam Sandler’s fictional alter-ego in Judd Apatow’s Funny People, …
RIP Bernard “Bernie” Sahlins, The Second City’s co-founder (1922-2013)
“The TBS Just For Laughs Chicago festival wrapped up its fifth annual celebration of comedy in “the second city” over the weekend, but there probably …
RIP Rahn Ramey
Rahn Ramey, a stand-up comedian who worked the road and survived the comedy boom of the late 1980s, died on June 9 following a three-year …
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RIP Jonathan Winters (1925-2013)
Jonathan Winters, one of the most inventive and inspired comedians whose career spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, has died. He was …
RIP Scott Kennedy
Scott Kennedy died unexpectedly on Thursday. The stand-up comedian, known for leading dozens of stand-up comedy tours to American military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan over …
RIP Hal “Chickie” Spear
Hal “Chickie” Spear, a stand-up comedian and TV writer who penned jokes for Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, Howie Mandel, Richard Jeni and others, died from …
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In Memoriam: Phyllis Diller paid tribute to the Oscars; Oscars fail to return the favor
Phyllis Diller, who died in 2012 at the age of 95, helped blaze a trail for generations of funny women not only in stand-up comedy, …
R.I.P. Ron Shock (1942-2012)
After a five-month battle with urethral cancer that he shared with fans and friends through daily Facebook posts and regular YouTube videos, comedian Ron Shock …