Stand-up comedy grew out of minstrelsy and then ... from the club-comic bubble of the 1980s to the the alt-comedy boom of the 1990s, it usually boils down to a fairly simple set-up.

Long before "Seinfeld," Jerry Seinfeld was one of the great guests on David Letterman's "Late Night" show on NBC. As Letterman prepares for his last show on Wednesday, these vintage '80s clips are ...

To say that I was raised by 1980s TV is unfair to my wonderful parents, but I certainly spent as much time with the Keatons, the Huxtables, the Seavers, the 4077th, and the Cheers gang as I did ...