Brandon K. Thorp

In the fall of 1993, on the island of Palm Beach, future U.S. president Donald J. Trump became friends with Leslie Greyling, an illegal immigrant and accused con artist who is a fugitive from the law. Back then, the local sections of the Palm Beach Post and Palm Beach Daily...

Poppy Champlin’s restless, roving comedic mind was forged in the pressure cooker of Second City, and it gracefully alights on any subject on any night. But on the Queer Queens of Qomedy Tour, it probably sticks close to the night’s binding theme: lesbianism, and the terrors and triumphs thereof. Codependency,...

Dennis Miller is the second-most entertaining, freedom-loving, semi-intellectual, autodidactic, libertarian funnyman in the nation. (The first is Penn Jillette.) You know the resumé, more or less: Saturday Night Live, the HBO shows, the radio programs, the rants, the guest appearances on Fox News where he plays gleefully to the resentments...

Brad Garrett’s voice or face has appeared in nearly every movie you’ve ever seen (Ratatouille) and most of the ones you haven’t (Hoodwinked II: Hood vs. Evil). He’s a fine poker player who contributed maybe the funniest moment to Celebrity Poker Showdown, when he suddenly began channeling Bill Cosby in...

America doesn't dress up. America doesn't pose (OK, maybe here and there — in certain parts of Miami, or in Vegas or L.A.). Mostly, though, America happens in discrete little moments when it doesn't seem like anyone is watching. That's the country revealed in "Artist Unknown: The Free World," an...