Jim Gaffigan accepted the Variety Comedy Vanguard Award and discussed why he generally avoids politics: 'No one is going to ...

When we look back on ’60s comedy, we think foremost of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, stand-ups who did yeoman’s work railing against the venality of the establishment (roughly: moneyed white men).

When we look back on ’60s comedy, we think foremost of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, stand-ups who did yeomen’s work railing against the venality of the establishment (roughly moneyed white men).

Much as his comedic hero George Carlin, stand-up comic Louis C.K. trashes his material when it’s chewed up. After each of C.K.’s alternately dark and raunchy taped specials, he wipes his joke slate ...