There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and into the 90s, a handful of stand-up comics slowly pushed ...

The 1980s were a golden age of comedy, but not every laugh was met with love. In fact, some comedians became infamous precisely because audiences couldn’t stand them, whether it was their irritating ...