Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. “Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years,“ a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985. “That’s the only way to […]
Author Mike Thomas: “Like many of my best ideas, the notion to write a biography of Phil Hartman came from someone else – namely, scribe and former stand-up comedian Vince Vieceli. A former comic and co-author of the recently published […]
I’m so happy for my friend, Mike Thomas, who got to finish the Johnny Carson biography started by the late Bill Zehme. It’s truly a great read. Give it a shot.
Given the vast number of self-improvement and career-shaping books published over the decades, it’s no surprise that authors in the genre struggle to introduce material or ideas that haven’t been discussed previously. Just from Napoleon Hill’s classic Think and Grow […]
Pick any state in the country and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a situation similar to the one in Florida. There, journalists Dave Barry and Carl Hiassen have become recognizable names in humor and satire respectively after straying from their […]