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

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 ...

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).