"Community" director Jay Chandrasekhar says Chevy Chase had a meltdown and said his career was ruined after his use of the ...

Swenson spent a year following Mack. He conducted multiple interviews with the comedian and followed them to more than a half-dozen stand-up open mics in D.C ...

Comedy legend Richard Pryor's wife said he died with a smile on his face Bob Riha Jr/WireImage Richard Pryor was an iconic comedian who made a name for himself through stand-up and movies like The Wiz ...

As tragic as Richard Pryor's life story may appear at a glance, his struggles and misfortune helped create and fuel the comedy in his act. Not until Pryor played himself on stage did his rise to the ...

The film captures his electrifying early years in vivid detail, though like Murphy himself it grows less satisfying as he loses his edge. In “Being Eddie,” the engaging if also relentlessly upbeat and ...

Eddie Murphy, as he has always been the first to acknowledge, is the rare comedian who set out to model himself on rock ‘n’ roll superstardom. He wanted to be Richard Pryor, but he also wanted to be ...

“Making Hugh Grant more rich and miserable” has been the main impact of Richard Curtis’s movies up till now, the director joked today, but the Love Actually auteur has a plan to “usher in a new era of ...

We’re living through a moment where late night jokes are next-day news, and each opening monologue feels like a litmus test for our freedom of expression. But is this dynamic anything new? This week, ...

In an unexpected somber moment in the new Eddie Murphy Netflix documentary, Being Eddie, the storied comedian opened up about paying for funerals of show biz legends, including musician and producer ...

“Being Eddie” just dropped on Netflix and it explores the legendary comedian’s rise to fame, the challenges he’s faced in the industry and what he might have up his sleeve for his fans in the next few ...