From the 1983 movie The King of Comedy to the 2019 biographical film Dolemite Is My Name, there are a number of pics that tell the stories of characters that work in the stand-up comedy industry.

The King of Comedy was written by Newsweek film critic Paul D. Zimmerman, and De Niro had been trying to get the movie made for nearly a decade. His interest in the subject was so intense that, ...

King of Comedy and Fight Club both capture a particular American zeitgeist: the former is about celebrity worship in the 1980s, while the latter is about the backlash against consumerism in the 1990s.

Christopher Lewis' book about his father explores the star's Yiddish-speaking upbringing and his role in raising billions of ...

From the 1983 movie The King of Comedy to the 2019 biographical film Dolemite Is My Name, there are a number of pics that tell the stories of characters that work in the stand-up comedy industry.