A year ago, Lea’h Sampson felt like everything was crashing. Though she had been doing stand-up comedy for six years, she was hitting a wall. Her jokes weren’t getting her booked, even in local comedy ...

Critics are saying that 'Dawn' has the humor and good looks of its predecessor, but lacks the first film's sense of peril.

When he wasn’t throwing food and playing with props onstage, he was working as a high school gym teacher. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Lenny Schultz, the frenetic stand-up comic who used food and ...

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Crowd work has grown more common, with some comedians now focusing their acts on it and sharing clips of their exchanges with audience members. But some comics say it takes away from the craft.

She also headlined in Las Vegas and had a big fan in Tim Allen, for whom she wrote an episode of ‘Home Improvement.’ By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Diane Ford, a stand-up comic and Las Vegas headliner ...

A Pulitzer Prize finalist in the cartoonist category, Pat Bagley has worked for The Salt Lake Tribune for more than 45 years. He is one of roughly a dozen cartoonists still working at a major ...