Songs sometimes come from the strangest of places. You never know when inspiration will hit and also whom it will hit. For example, amazing tunes can be written by names like Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix ...

I had never heard of the “Jimmy Awards” before I moved to New York City. For the uninitiated, it’s an annual showcase of high school musical theater actors that crowns two winners for their ...

Comedian Morgan Jay poses for a portrait at the Kookaburra Lounge in Hollywood. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) Before we sit down for the interview, Morgan Jay is in the middle of a photo shoot — ...

Irony is hard to define, even harder to rhyme in a song. Nobody does it more artfully, lyrically, melodically than Tim Minchin. The Australian - and I'll try to make this alphabetical - actor, comic, ...

Kyle is a New York based comedian, actor, musician, songwriter and improviser. After many years honing his craft performing live comedy throughout NYC, he emerged as one of the most popular and ...

After the Seder, sometime around midnightwhen everyone has said the grace after meals, the singing begins. People break out tunes like, “Echad Mi Yodea (Who Knows One)” and “Let My People Go.” For ...

Well, it's official y'all. San Antonio may have its own national anthem that isn't a cumbia song about a gorilla (If you've been to a quinceañera here, you know). A few months back, comedian and song ...

Two years after leaving his hit BBC sitcom The Office, actor and comedian Ricky Gervais premiered his new show Extras in 2005. In the series, which ran through 2007 on the BBC and HBO, Gervais played ...

Did you say “flatbed truck”? That’s how Dr. Stuart Bloom sees it, at least. Each of us is riding in the bed of a pickup, facing backward. We can clearly see the bumps on the road we’ve already ...

Before we sit down for the interview, Morgan Jay is in the middle of a photo shoot — posing against a piano. Once he doesn’t have to sit still for photos, he immediately begins to play an original ...