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The world is split into two factions: those who laugh at Abbott & Costello and the other half who watch the first half and shake their heads and wonder why As one of the most popular comedy teams of all time, they never possessed the outrageous class of the Marx Brothers, nor the heart-tugging empathy of Laurel & Hardy
A Romania-born poet, novelist, and National Public Radio commentator who emigrated to the United States in 1966, Andrei Codrescu uses the English language to explore political and social issues around the globe
Illustrator, photographer, and graphic artist Andrew Davis has worked on a variety of projects since the ’90s, including several compilations ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide
Discographers who feel snooty about recording credits for artists’ hair stylists should not forget the importance of hair in pop music Not to be confused with the grand British conductor, this Andrew Davis has picked up a few such credits since 2000, some of them suspect
In the late 1980s, Andrew ‘Dice’ Clay was the most notorious and controversial comic in the business Foul-mouthed and abrasive, he was one in a long line of comedic performers whose material stretched the boundaries of decency and good taste to their breaking point; unlike pioneers including Lenny Bruce or George Carlin, however, Clay’s routines did not evolve out of pointed social satire or trenchant political commentary, but merely a desire to be as lewd and shocking as humanly possible
Andy Belling — who is also sometimes credited as Andrew Belling — has led a three-tiered career since the 1960’s In rock, he has been a busy session musician, playing with artists such as the Kingston Trio (on their strangest record, Somethin’ Else), Dillard & Clark, Linda Rontadt, Rick Nelson and the early version of the Stone Canyon Band, Ann Peebles, Scott Dreier, and David Castle, among many others
Writer Andy Davis has been signing off on liner notes since the late ’60s and seems to get lots of greatest-hits assignments This is not the same dude who played in Stackridge and the Korgis
Comedian Andy Dick is one of the many actors to experiment with a recording career after their star rises high enough to afford them such side projects Brashly funny and often utilizing a manic personality to get his humor across, Dick was more often infamous for his legendary heavy partying and drug use before an incident with the law helped him change his habits
The off-the-wall cartoon series Animaniacs was produced by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment, making its broadcast debut on the Fox network on September 13, 1993
Hyper, irreverent, and “…so gay, I can put a lisp in the word ‘cracker,’” the man simply named Ant first decided he wanted to become a comedian when he saw Whoopi Goldberg’s one-woman show on HBO