Carol Burnett was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the country's top humor honor, over the weekend.
"This is very encouraging," Burnett said in her acceptance speech, The Associated Press reports. "It was a long time in coming, but I understand because there are so many people funnier than I am, especially here in Washington. With any luck, they'll soon get voted out, and I'll still have the Mark Twain prize."
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Considered a father of the modern movie poster, Bob Peak created art for Apocalypse Now, Superman: The Movie and The Spy Who Loved Me, among many others. But during a nearly 20-year run, he was also one of TV Guide Magazine's most prolific cover artists, contributing 38 gorgeous, graphically inventive illustrations. Peak's son and archivist, Thomas Peak, helps annotate some of his father's finest.
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Bill Cosby is set to do his first stand-up TV special in 30 years, Entertainment Weekly reports. Comedy Central announced the plans Friday, Cosby's 76th birthday, to air ...
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Bill Cosby says he wanted The Cosby Show to represent a parenting philosophy that would "take the house back" from kids.
"I based the series on two important things: No. 1 ... I hated those series where the children were brighter than the parents, and those parents had to play dumb," Cosby recently told ABC News. "No. 2 was that I wanted to 'take the house back.'"
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For those graduating students about to face the real world, Joss Whedon has a message for you: "You're all going to die."
Whedon (The Avengers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) gave the commencement speech at Wesleyan University's graduation Sunday, explaining that...
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