The King of Comedy is in the conversation again because of Joker, a wildly different movie that, based on its trailers, appears to tell a similar story.

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 ...

“The Kings of Comedy” tour, which featured four black comics, sold out arenas across the county and grossed more than $37 million in 1997 and 1998. But the tour was largely ignored by the ...