The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Let us take a moment to remember the late great Paul Krassner, who died earlier this week at the age of 87. Krassner played Carnegie Hall at age 6 (the youngest ever), found a mentor in Lenny Bruce, founded the first real counterculture magazine in The Realist, and founded the …
Manjunath Naidu, an Indian stand-up comedian born in Abu Dhabi, collapsed and died onstage during a performance over the weekend in Dubai. Naidu was only 36. Known by friends as Mango (he jokingly signed a Facebook post in March with “MANGO 🍍🍍 (ps where the hell is the mango emoji …
Rip Torn was not a comedian, per se. Torn was a Texan, though, true and through. Born Elmore Rual Torn, Jr. on Feb. 6, 1931 in Temple, Texas, by Thelma Mary (Spacek) and Elmore Rual Torn, Sr., who gave their son the nickname of “Rip,” which was his daddy’s nickname, …
Aspiring TV comedy writers have a new career path open to them, thanks to the new Eunetta T. Boone Comedy Writer’s Scholarship, established by the Disney Channel. Finalists will be chosen for the scholarship from the general pool of applicants to the Walt Disney Television Writing Program. Boone, the executive …
One star was painfully absent from this year’s Still Laugh-In tribute on Netflix, and that’s because Arte Johnson was in too much pain and sickness to attend. Johnson died today. He was 90. He had previously beaten back non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but a few years ago came down with bladder and …
Sammy Shore, the stand-up comedian who founded The Comedy Store in West Hollywood with his wife Mitzi in 1972 before giving her complete ownership in their divorce two years later, has died. Shore was 92. He was surrounded by his current wife and family in his home in Las Vegas …
Tim Conway, simply one of the funniest individuals to perform on television, has died after a long illness. Conway was 85. Born in 1933 outside of Cleveland, Thomas Daniel “Tim” Conway began his career as a radio disc jockey at Bowling Green University, where he studied in the 1950s before …
English stand-up comedian Ian Cognito died Thursday night while performing a gig onstage in the town of Bicester, suffering a fatal heart attack. Cognito was 60. In this clip of Cognito from 2012, when he was 53, he joked about his declining health, aging, and followed a rape joke by …
Last Friday, Vulture profiled stand-up comedian Raghav Mehta and urged readers to follow him on Twitter. This Friday, comedians across America are mourning Mehta. Mehta died Thursday night. The cause of death has not been released. Born Jan. 3, 1988, Mehta started doing comedy in Minneapolis. A 2012 graduate from …
The Comedy Store closed on Monday night for a private event, the memorial for the late great comedian Steven Brody, aka Brody Stevens, aka Steven Brody Stevens. His best friend and comedy benefactor, Zach Galifianakis, walked onstage first before the memorial itself began officially to address the crowd of friends …
