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Over the course of his five-decade career, Paul Mooney has written for In Living Color, Chappellea s Show and Saturday Night Live.

William Loeffler can be reached via e-mail or at 412-320-7986. People sometimes don't believe that comedian and "Saturday Night Live" alum Kevin Brennan comes from a family of 10 children.

He's been flying well under the radar for awhile now! But Dave Chappelle surprised the audience at Caroline's on Broadway during former Chappelle's Show castmate Charlie Murphy 's stand-up show.

After ending the run of Guiding Light, CBS made a perfectly sensible move in replacing the record-breaking but low-rated soap with a revival of Let's Make a Deal hosted by Wayne Brady.

Nick Swardson, seen here in a standup performance, will star in a sketch comedy series for Comedy Central.

For the past seven months, Questlove has been on the run. The Roots drummer, whose driver's license reads "Ahmir Thompson," wakes up every day between 6 and 7 a.m. to catch an 8 a.m. train from his hometown of Philadelphia and usually doesn't return home until 11 p.m. That's because at the top of the year, the band accepted a job as the house band ...

It sounds like the punchline of a bad joke, but American comedian Dave Chappelle is probably not laughing after his attempt to break the record for the longest stand-up performance was scuttled by his own bladder.

Where were you the day the laughter died? For me, it was summer of my senior year of high school when Chappelle's Show began to die a prolonged death.

AMC's "Mad Men," the hottest property in pop culture right now, thrives on the resurrection of taboos great and small , but the cable drama really outdid itself in last night's episode.

Bobcat Goldthwait, who wrote and directed "World's Greatest Dad," wasn't even pitching the story when he told buddy Robin Williams about it over dinner.

How can a movie as overstuffed with funny people as The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard be so listless and leaden? Maybe the timing just isn't right for a comedy about car salesmen and their customers that takes the salesmen's side.

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At one point during "The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard," a grubby-looking comedy about the art of the sale, two alligators crawl across a car lot.

Mr. Piven on the set with that film's director, Neal Brennan, a co-creator and co-writer of 'Chappelle's Show.' ADAM McKAY remembers exactly when he decided Neal Brennan was funny.

Mr. Piven on the set with that film's director, Neal Brennan, a co-creator and co-writer of 'Chappelle's Show.' ADAM McKAY remembers exactly when he decided Neal Brennan was funny.

Most times, when an entertainer announces their retirement, they really mean, "Press please.

Once the panel for the new Let's Make a Deal was announced, you knew that at some point someone was going to ask Wayne Brady if he was going to have to choke a bitch.

Along with Richard Pryor, his dear friend and collaborator, Paul Mooney is a member of the elite American pantheon of influential stand-up comedians.

There seem to be two groups of people in Portland after last week: those who showed up to see Dave Chappelle late Tuesday night, and those who wonder what the big deal is.

The latest in the strange and twisted saga of Dave Chappelle : Thousands of people who heard through text message, Twitter and word-of-mouth that the comedian would give a free show filled a downtown Portland square late Tuesday.