Supposedly, Saturday Night Live hasn’t particularly intended to favor stand-up comedians when casting the show in recent years; Lorne Michaels has said (and I’m sure I’ve repeated here) that there was ...

The nice thing would be to wake up and find oneself in bed in a Chicago apartment between Bob and Emily, or in a Vermont inn with Dick and Joanna, and find that this was all a dream. Sadly, the world ...

LOS ANGELES — The nice thing would be to wake up and find oneself in bed in a Chicago apartment between Bob and Emily, or in a Vermont inn with Dick and Joanna, and find that this was all a dream.

Legendary American vaudeville entertainer-turned-comedian Jackie "Moms" Mabley became famous for her persona as a frumpy, middle-aged woman in a housedress and floppy hat delivering hilarious stand-up ...