When it comes to money matters, mixing things up with Donald Trump can be a costly proposition. This means that even making a bet with the real estate mogul and Celebrity Apprentice host can earn someone a court date and maybe even set the person back a couple million dollars. Not even if the bet was meant…
Comedy today is at a ‘golden age’ and Louis CK is one of the greatest beneficiaries of this new age in comedy. And Louis doesn’t shy away from acknowledging his good fortune: “The amount I get paid by these promoters is crazy…I could make $100,000 in a night,” he said about two years ago to…
Not long ago, South Park, one of Comedy Central’s better-liked shows and one that is pretty big on spoofs, got the station and its parent company Viacom in what seemed like a bit of trouble. Some courtroom trouble, that is. And by the time the dust settled on the entire controversy, Viacom found itself not…
Funnyman Jay Leno is back in court and we have seen this script before. Just last month, the Sikh religion found itself at the butt of Leno’s jokes and the Sikh faithful did not find the stuff amusing. So, early the next week, Randeep Dhillon, an Indian-American and a Sikh, filed a defamation lawsuit in…
Jimmy Kimmel is a star of late night TV and his star is still rising. Next up, he’ll be hosting the White House Correspondent’s Dinner in April. So, no one can doubt Kimmel’s high profile in pop culture. But as a comedian he also gets into cheeky territory with stuff that really gives people the…
Funnyman Joel McHale is a TV show host who pulls no punches when he takes the bat to celebrities and reality TV stars. But some of his targets are not the kinds of folks who would take his jibes lying low. Folks like Cara and Gibson Reynolds, a married dwarf couple from New Jersey who…
Comedian Jim Norton and the Opie and Anthony show are two of a kind and when they come together, it may be wise to prepare oneself for a moment that may not be so ordinary. As it happens, Jim Norton is a stand-up comic who is known for pushing a tough line with foul-mouth remarks…
British comedian Stephen Grant is a guy who wants to wash his family’s laundry in public regardless of their wish. But he is not the only comedian who would do something like that. Just across the pond, American comedian Sundra Croonquist frequently pissed off family members by some of what she said onstage in her…
Before she was Mrs. Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez was Mrs. Ojani Noa. That little known 11-month marriage to a Cuban chef is causing the comedic star of The Wedding Planner and the upcoming The Back-Up Plan some serious headaches. J. Lo, as Jennifer Lopez is known to her fans, sued Noa for breach of contract…