"Are you sure you're that funny?" That's what I get when I tell people I'm focusing on becoming a professional comedian and comedy writer. It's a valid question. Even if I'm funny enough to captivate ...

Eddie Murphy expressed hopes for a funny grandchild with ties to both the Murphy and Martin Lawrence comedy legacies. Eddie Murphy has expressed his hopes for his family’s future as his son Eric, ...

Toward the end of the 1983 comedy “The Man with Two Brains,” Steve Martin, as Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr, is blasted with a drumfire of ethnic slurs. Learning that his sadistic wife, Dolores (Kathleen ...

“Is Martin Short the greatest talk-show guest of all time?” asked The New Yorker a few years ago. What’s next? “Is the Pope the most Catholic dude of all time?” It’s like, duh. (Prove it! Fine.) Last ...

Tisha Campbell-Martin gets comedy. The New Jersey-bred actress knows how to laugh at herself before anyone else does because she can find the funny in most things. It’s one of the reasons we loved her ...

The Hollywood Reporter asked writer Tom Chiarella to immerse himself in online courses to see if their comedic gifts can really be passed along. By Tom Chiarella When I was a grad student at the ...

Ron Capps had a hunch that his 25th crack at winning the NHRA Mello Yello Series Funny Car trophy at the U.S. Nationals would be magical. It wasn’t. But it was for Ray Martin, the owner of an Alaskan ...