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 describe it: […]
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 ‘Stand-Up Comedy […]