"Men could get away with" what I couldn't, she said. — -- Carol Burnett is a true comedy trailblazer and will be honored for her work at next weekend's Screen Actors Guild Awards. The 82-year-old ...

From the 1960s through the 2000s, certain comedians became universal crushes because of how deeply they made us laugh. Beyond the jokes, these iconic performers had a mix of charm, warmth, wit, and ...

There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and into the 90s, a handful of stand-up comics slowly pushed ...

Before streaming specials and social media clips, stand-up comedy was discovered through late-night television, vinyl records, and smoky nightclub stages. For Baby Boomers, certain comedians were once ...

Vaudeville comedians -- Radio -- Nightclubs -- Television -- Late night -- The emergence of Las Vegas -- Stand-up's great change -- Percolation in the mid-1960s -- Hippie madness at decade's end -- ...