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Joan Rivers in the 1980s (Photo by Harry Langdon/Getty Images) Joan Rivers Mortgaged Her House to Make a Movie About Billy Crystal Getting Pregnant
The stand-up pioneer never directed another film as long as she lived
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Ben Stiller (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for FLC) Ben Stiller Keeps Getting Mistaken for Another Comedian
People can’t seem to stop mixing the ‘Tropic Thunder’ star up with one of his contemporaries
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Pete Holmes (Photo: Jeremychanphotography/Getty Images) Pete Holmes on His New Stand-Up Special, Proper Q-Tip Usage, and How Audiences Have Changed (Exclusive)
The ‘Crashing’ star’s latest hour premieres on YouTube on March 24
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Sam Kinison (Photo by Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) Sam Kinison Once Punched Billy Idol’s Guitarist (According to Idol, Anyway)
Several people involved with the incident have shared conflicting stories about the day in question
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Mark David Chapman on the night of his arrest in December 1980 (Photo: Bettman/Getty Images) John Lennon’s Killer Considered Shooting a Famous Comedian Instead
Mark David Chapman had other potential targets in mind before settling on the former Beatles singer
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Richard Simmons talks with 'Late Show' host David Letterman in 2000. (Photo: Barbara Nitke/CBS via Getty Images) The Incident That Kept Richard Simmons Away From David Letterman’s Show for Years
The late-night host and the fitness guru had a falling out back in 2000 that took them years to resolve
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Joe Rogan (Photo by Michael Schwartz/WireImage) Joe Rogan Got His Big Break Because Another Famous Comedian Got Fired
The future podcast host carved out a nice career for himself in the wake of someone else’s departure
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Robin Williams (Photo: Vera Anderson/WireImage) Did Robin Williams Really Get Punched in the Face for Stealing a Joke?
Legend has it the ‘Mork and Mindy’ star even got thrown off of a building, but how true is that?
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Richard Pryor (Photo by Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images) The Wild Story of Richard Pryor’s Lost Blaxploitation-Style Movie
The bizarre, unfinished film was nearly destroyed, and its whereabouts remain unknown
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George Carlin (Photo: NBCU Photo Bank/Paul Drinkwate) Answering Comedians’ Questions: 4 Rhetorical Musings Examined
Getting to the bottom of the things comics were pondering over in the pre-internet days
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Art Carney (Photo by American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Images) Did a Famous Comedian Record the First Rap Song?
A 1954 record by one comedy legend sounds like something the Fresh Prince could’ve made decades later
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The roast of…. (Photo: Frank Micelotta/Getty Images) The Comedy Central Roast That Was So Brutal It Only Aired Once
The network supposedly struggled to even get people on the dais
