"One “man", a larynx, a piano, a Christmas tree, and a room full of good people," he says. "No set list, just whatever happens. Bring a bauble and hang it on my tree and I’ll ply you with drink.

Georgina Hogarth lived with Charles Dickens for nearly three decades. Charles Dickens Museum. When Georgina Hogarth was 15 years old, she left her parents’ home and moved in with her sister ...

There are titters, and perhaps even a few yowls, in the British historian Paul Johnson’s new book, “Humorists: From Hogarth to Noël Coward,” which contains chapters on both the Marx ...