You have hissed the mystery lecture. In fact, you’ve tasted the whole worm!” If you’ve never heard that sentence before, ...

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As one half of the comic sibling duo, Tommy Smothers brought political consciousness to the American family room when he and his younger brother, Richard “Dick” Smothers, launched “The Smothers ...

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Renowned comedian Richard Lewis, known for exploring his neuroses in stream-of-consciousness diatribes, has died. The ...

Samuel Clemens, who was known as Mark Twain, was born in Missouri in 1835 — the year of Haley's Comet, and vowed he would live to see the comet pass over again. Indeed, Twain died in 1910, the day ...