The 1980s were a golden age of comedy, but not every laugh was met with love. In fact, some comedians became infamous precisely because audiences couldn’t stand them, whether it was their irritating ...

There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and into the 90s, a handful of stand-up comics slowly pushed ...