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Likely Toast
"She's not so great," a fellow actress once proclaimed of the legendary Tallulah...

Singed Photo
While appearing on "The Goon Show," Peter Sellers received a curious letter from...

Turkey Shoot?
Helen Hayes was not noted for her culinary talents. One day, in an experimental ...

Vincent van Gogh: Artist's ...
In 1935 the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) sponsored America's first exhibition of ...

Liberty Bell
In 1970, Procrastinators' Club of America founder Les Waas and his fellow member...

Standing O
"Bear Bryant, the winningest coach of his era, had a squad meeting one time and ...

Talking to Morons
One day at the turn of the millennium, "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" cohost Rick Me...

Garden Party?
One day while Groucho Marx was working in his garden (dressed in well-worn garde...

Mandolin
"In Paris, James and Gloria Jones's friend Jean Cartel owned a popular bar and r...

Point-Blank Delivery?
A man who had often spoken with Bernard Baruch about hunting was once invited to...

Dorothy Parker: Lusty Lady
At one time Dorothy Parker's office was a tiny, drab and dingy cubbyhole in the ...

Publisher's Toast
One evening during the Napoleonic wars, the English poet Thomas Campbell caused ...

Circus Baseball (long)
On August 18th, 1951, the St. Louis Browns (a dismal baseball team which later b...

Dave Barry: Chomper
In January 2002, British psychologist Richard Wiseman, having launched an intern...

World Gone Crazy
"You know the world is going crazy," Chris Rock declared in 2003, "when the best...

Clinton Float
Europeans found more humor in Bill Clinton's sexual escapades than did many of h...

Sabrina Matthews: Lesbian Quip
"I was performing at a comedy club," Sabrina Matthews once recalled, "and when I...

Howie Mandel: Amusement Park
The comedian Howie Mandel once worked as a ride operator at an amusement park. "...

Eminem Lawsuit
"This week," Conan O'Brien announced in mid-August 2003, "a 70 year old grandmot...

David Schwimmer: The Grab
While preparing for their roles in the L.A. production of Turnaround in 2...

Caroline Rhea: Daddy's Tail
"My god-daughter is two and a half years old," Caroline Rhea once reported. "She...

Dana Snow: Budding Buddhist?
"I've been studying Zen Buddhism," Dana Snow once reported. "Zen teaches the val...

Phyllis Diller: Body Cast
Phyllis Diller was once injured and had to wear an upper-body cast for an openin...

Roger Ebert Rating System
Roger Ebert once appeared as a guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien." O'Brien...

Fend for Yourselves!
In 1938, Orson Welles broadcast a radio reproduction of H. G. Wells's ...

Tuscan Wit?
Pianist Victor Borge was once asked why the keys on his piano were so yellow. Bo...

Hog Tied?
While serving as England's Lord Chancellor, Francis Bacon once presided over a c...

Bernhardt's Leg
In 1915, during an unfortunate performance in the title role of Victorien Sardou...

Fast Learner
The legendary conductor, composer, and pianist Leonard Bernstein was once asked ...

Quiet on the Set
One freezing night during the filming of Velvet Goldmine (1998), co-star...

Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike ...
Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike Contest in Monte Carlo...

Understatement?
One day George Kaufman visited the office of theatrical producer Jed Harris, a m...

Genital Humor
Shortly after the launch of Viagra, Robin Williams, famed for his ad-libbing gen...

Collision Course
"Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on maneuvers ...

Greene with Envy?
An English magazine once ran a competition offering a prize for the best parody ...

Bob Hope: Rats
During a show one evening Bob Hope, to the great amusement of his audience, rela...

Practical Joke #276
While touring, Enrique Iglesias and his entourage regularly played practical jok...

Plane Odd?
As an Oxford don, Lewis Carroll befriended Alice Liddell (the young daughter of ...

Deductive Reasoning?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, ofte...

Potato Stunt
"In August 1987, Dave Bresnahan, then a 25-year-old second-string catcher with t...

Wanda at Large
Each episode of "Wanda at Large" opens with writer and standup comic Wanda Sykes...

Milk Man
While passing Ulysses S. Grant's tomb in New York one day, Robert Benchley scrib...

Action Figure
"A toy company just came out with a doll modeled on our own bandleader," 'Tonigh...

Conjunction
"Eddie Cantor and Georgie Jessel were on the same bill on a vaudeville unit," Jo...

Dionne Warwick: Psychic Friend
Over the course of her long career, Dionne Warwick pursued a number of business ...

That's In(cr)edible!
In Britain, banks are required to accept any legible check, irrespective of the ...

Chair Fair
"An esteemed panel gathered in February 1987 to judge 387 entries in the New Yor...

Killer Joke?
Libby Gelman-Waxner was awed by the behavior of Anthony Hopkin's character (Hann...

Imaginary Lover
"Marie Lloyd, given her first and only job as principal girl at Drury Lane [Thea...

Crappy Speech?
Following his conviction (on ten felony counts of bribery, tax evasion, and rack...

Harmon Leon's "Little Siste...
Stuff contributor Harmon Leon once visited a Hollywood studio and, posing...

The Couch Trip
As a Harvard undergraduate, Robert Benchley cultivated a fondness for practical ...

Benchley Love?
Robert Benchley once visited a women's nudist camp in California with the actor ...

Tom Gr@@n?
Tom Green once answered the "Proust Questionnaire" found at the back of every is...

Popular Wading
While traveling in Portugal one year, Marc Connelly, on a lark, began traveling ...

Richard Branson: Bottom Line
Having built Virgin Records into a respected label, Richard Branson decided the ...

Lusty Schwarzenegger
Arnold Schwarzenegger once readily acknowledged the pleasure he took in flirtati...

Will Rogers: Nail-Biter?
Will Rogers once sent his young niece a picture postcard from Paris. "See what w...

W. C. Fields: Pineapple Juice
W. C. Fields always kept a martini-filled thermos on hand while he was filming. ...

Irish Eyes (long)
For many years, fellow comedians George Burns and Harpo Marx played golf togethe...

The Glove
For many years, Dame Judi Dench and friend and fellow actor Tim Pigott-Smith pla...

John Ashcroft & Hillary Cli...
Shortly after Missouri's own John Ashcroft was named United States Attorney Gene...

Snookered
"My colleague A. J. McIlroy was the subject of a joke played on him aboard ...

Film Critic
In February, 2000, famed film critic Rex Reed was arrested for shoplifting three...

Dan Whitney: Sex with a Clown
"I once made love to a female clown," Dan Whitney once recalled. "It was weird b...

Crumby Astronaut
After returning from the first-ever multi-manned space flight (with fellow astro...

Fermat's Last Theorem
One day when commercial air travel was still in its infancy, the great mathemati...

Jedi Knickers
Ewan McGregor once played an Iggy Pop-style star (from the '70s glitter-rock sce...

Priceless Jest
During Bela Lugosi's funeral, Vincent Price and Peter Lorre went to view the dec...

Young Tom Green
Growing up Tom Green was something of a class clown. "What's the craziest thing ...

Picabo!
With a name pronounced "peek-a-boo," American Olympic skier Picabo Street was na...

Golfing for Cats
Famed British humorist Alan Coren was once advised that anyone seeking to draw t...

Sniper
"Geraldo Rivera is over there reporting for us every single night," Jay Leno rep...

W. C. Fields: Little Nipper
W. C. Fields was hardly noted for his love of children. Like Charles Lamb, he wa...

Jon Stewart: K Word
"Alka Seltzer is funny. You say 'Alka Seltzer' and you get a laugh... Words with...

Wedding Present
One day in November 2000, Elton John was asked to suggest the "perfect wedding p...

Stripper
During a live broadcast of "The Soupy Sales Show" one day, Sales opened a prop d...

Shamu
Even Elizabeth Taylor's closest friends made fun of her ballooning weight. "When...

Steven Spielberg: Final Cut
Only top-tier directors are given "final cut" by their studios. "Steven Spielber...

Banker's Banker
One day the legendary banker Amadeo Peter Giannini (whose Bank of America Nation...

Sam Donaldson: Toupee
In 2003, rumors began to circulate that ABC's toupee-topped anchor Sam Donaldson...

Omelette
"Many years ago," Calvin Trillin once recalled, "when a friend in England began ...

Clinton's Dictation
One day in November 1999, Bill Clinton sat for his first online chat with the na...

First Impressions
One day in the early 1960s, John Lennon walked into London's Indica art gallery ...

"Mrs. Personality"
One day in April 2003, Jay Leno watched Monica Lewinsky hosting a reality TV dat...

Devil May Care
"Georges Cuvier's outstanding achievement resulted from his ability to reconstru...

Television Prank
One night Alice Cooper decided to pull a prank on his bodyguard - by pretending ...

Frightening Sight
While driving through a Swiss village one day, Alfred Hitchcock suddenly pointed...

Gentleman
"Noel Coward and I were in Paris," Beatrice Lillie once recalled. "Adjoining roo...

Caught Peering
At a party one evening, Tallulah Bankhead caught a peer of the realm blankly sta...

Pope's Fiat
"The Pope's new Fiat, which can withstand direct machine gun fire, was designed ...

Lewinsky Website
"Monica Lewinsky has a website now," Jay Leno reported one day in February 2000....

Chaplin & Fairbanks
While passing a cinema in Hollywood one day, Charlie Chaplin stopped to examine ...

Wise Guy (long)
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman was also an accomplished safec...

Pauli Effect in Action
It was a standing joke among Wolfgang Pauli's colleagues that the famed theoreti...

Mike Huckabee: Talking to I...
One day at the turn of the millennium, "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" co-host Rick M...

Phil Graham: Manic Maniac
Until his tragic suicide in 1963, Washington Post publisher Phil Graham s...

Cheney Duped? (long)
Following the war in Iraq in 2003, the Senate Intelligence Committee began inves...

Lunar Landing
In July 1969, several the political luminaries and other celebrities offered sug...

Hugh Troy: Rhinoceros Lake
"Hugh Troy, an artist, was a smart aleck who spent most of his life perpetrating...

The Rock: Kissing Scene
While preparing to shoot an intense semi-nude kissing scene on the set of ...

Robin Williams & Christophe...
At Juilliard, Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve made a pact to help one anoth...

Jude Law: Cool with Nudity?
"I have no problem with nudity," Jude Law once remarked. "My friend Ewan and I a...

Drew Carey: Hats Off to Rya...
One day on the set of "Who's Line is it Anyway," Drew Carey knocked Ryan Stiles'...

Brad Pitt & George Clooney:...
During the production of Ocean's Twelve, Brad Pitt played a practical jok...

Alex Nussbaum & Hugo Boss
"Hugo Boss manufactured the first Nazi uniforms," Jewish comedian Alex Nussbaum ...

Johnny Carson: The Clock
"I was on the show ['The Tonight Show'] in New York," Bob Newhart once recalled,...

Alexander McQueen: Custom Job
"Alexander McQueen grew up in East London, the son of a cabbie and the youngest ...

Howie Mandel: Physical Exam
One day in 2006, Howie Mandel visited his doctor's office for a physical exam. B...

Bette Midler: Bette's Breasts
"Got myself a little mail scale, the kind they weigh postage and cocaine on," Be...

Robert Atkins: Atkins Diet
In 2004, militant vegans obtained the death certificate of Robert Atkins, the do...

Delicate Subject
William Gladstone once observed that Benjamin Disraeli enjoyed an enviable reput...

Niece vs Nurse
As he lay dying, Henry Arthur Jones was asked whether he would prefer his niece ...

Death Bed Confession
Toward the end of his life, a hospitalized John Barrymore - aware that he was dy...

Once More, Maurice...
As Maurice Barrymore was being laid to rest, the straps supporting the lowered c...

Joe L. Hergmensheicken?
Posters once inadvertently announced that novelist Joseph Hergesheimer and criti...

Rebecca Romijn-Stamos: Hello!!
Lucky lads who dated Rebecca Romijn-Stamos in high-school were often bemused by ...

Marilyn Monroe & Jane Russe...
On June 26, 1952, Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell were invited by Grauman's Chin...

High Spirits
Free-spirited Canadian golfer Moe Norman was as much an entertainer as a golfer,...

Soothing Baum
Wizard of Oz creator L. Frank Baum, whose weak heart prevented him from s...

Groucho Marxist?
The noted humorist Robert Benchley once applied for a bank loan - and was horrif...

Live from New York!
In Live from New York, "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels descr...

Barking Mad?
"Suppose you invite a small group of friends to your 500-year-old farmhouse in t...

Haley Joel Osment at the Os...
"Young Haley Joel Osment was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar [for hi...

Minute Manute
The Houston Rockets' 7'7" star forward Manute Bol was famously skinny. "He's so ...

Kevin Costner: Directing Joke
One summer evening in 2002, "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien told a joke about Ke...

Two Bits?
The popular composer Jacques Francois Halevy was once infuriated to discover tha...

Liberatory Physics?
"Though the science wars had burst on the university world years earlier, the ev...

Mathematical Analyser
The mathematician John von Neumann was an inveterate practical joker. Having cre...

Timeless Joke
One day during the filming of Midnight (1939), Don Ameche and director Mi...

XXXL?
During World War II, British soldiers discovered that placing a condom over a gu...

Giotto's Fly
One day during his apprenticeship (with Giovanni Cimabue), Giotto painted a fly ...

Cakes and Ale?
During a tour of Canada in the early years of their marriage, Prince Philip and ...

Plosh!
W. S. Gilbert once fell into conversation with a group of Shakespeare-lovers at ...

Horse Play
While visiting the celebrated Sitwell family one day, Sir Edwin Lutyens, noted f...

Peter Humor
One day Peter Farrelly (one half of the famous Farrelly Brothers) posed for a nu...

Reverse Psychology
"As physics professor at Adelaide University in Australia, Sir Kerr Grant used t...

Chicken
One day during the French and Indian War, Israel Putnam was challenged to a duel...

Cul-de-Sacrilege?
In high school, T. C. Boyle and a group of his friends once stole a three-foot-h...

Grapes
During a guest appearance one evening on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," Gene P...

Walter Who?
In 1974, Walter Matthau, slated to make a cameo appearance as a drunk in the fil...

Ulysses S. Grant: Bogus Stogie
In the 1860s, future president Ulysses S. Grant, an inveterate practical joker, ...

H2OOO!
Austria's Heilbrunn castle boasts a curious water-garden incorporating an outdoo...

Seance
"Strindberg's interest in spiritualism caused Julien Leclerq and me [Frederick D...

Bump & Grind
One day during the production of MGM's The Cross of Lorraine, Sir Cedric ...

With Esteem
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused...

Cash Cow
In Britain, banks are required to accept any legible check, irrespective of the ...

I Am Not a Dog
"A singer named Waldick Soriano was singing a song called, 'I am not a dog' at a...

Hot Date
Rossini once received a curious letter before a performance of one of his operas...

Just Cause For Divorce?
While having dinner one night, Milton Berle asked his wife for a glass of water....

Lawrence Whelk?
One day Milton Berle sat down at the comedians' Round Table at the Hillcrest Cou...

Martin Scorsese & Harvey We...
With Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York well over budget, Miramax co-Cha...

Jackass
"One day Brad Pitt was standing in line waiting to buy a hot dog at Pink's, the ...

Hurlyburly (long)
One day in 1998 an unexpected visitor appeared on the set of Anthony Drazan's ...

Foursome
Following one of his many Masters victories, Tiger Woods received a congratulato...

Barrister
Dorothy Parker was once told that a certain London actress had broken her leg. "...

Benchley in Venice
While visiting Venice for the first time, Robert Benchley sent a gag telegram to...

Kid Gloves
At his historic first meeting with James Whistler (a fellow American living in L...

Tarred
To break an appointment one day, Robert Benchley visited a hospital feigning an ...

Flag Booper?
Gallagher became notorious for a slip he made during a show one evening. His int...

Parsons' Pleasure
Parsons' Pleasure, a stretch of river at Oxford set aside for men's bathing, was...

Margaret Smith: Change Room
While shopping at Ann Taylor one day Margaret Smith was interrupted by a clerk a...

Lost Weekend
Shortly after the release of The Lost Weekend (Billy Wilder's screen adap...

Hairy Childbirth
Joan Rivers' idea of a perfect childbirth experience? "Knock me out with the fir...

Canned Ham
In college David Letterman was kicked off the classical radio station for his lo...

Tense Minutes? (long)
"Over the years, it has been the offbeat things about the many shows we produced...

Sinner Saved?
Zsa Zsa Gabor was married nearly a dozen times. "I am a marvelous housekeeper," ...

Cracked Scull
"While playing at Swansea," the music-hall comedian George Robey once recalled, ...

Vain Search?
William F. Buckley once sent fellow author Norman Mailer a copy of his latest bo...

Niven's Revenge (long)
Ida Lupino and Howard Duff had been happily married for several years, and so ha...

Giuliani Dome
New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani was widely admired for his can-do attitude - and...

Simple Question?
One day during a speaking tour, Albert Einstein's driver, who often sat at the b...

Handcuffs
One day on the set of The Thirty-nine Steps, Alfred Hitchcock handcuffed ...

Fitting Response
"Mrs. Stowe was leaving for Florida one morning, and Clemens [the young Mark Twa...

Big Mischief
In 2002, the man rumored to have the largest penis in Hollywood died at the age ...

Osama & Geraldo
"According to the New York Daily News," Jay Leno reported shortly after t...

Mel Gibson: Clowning Around
On the Braveheart set, Mel Gibson, an inveterate prankster, began calling...

Tyson Tattoo
Just days before a boxing match in February 2003, Mike Tyson was seen sporting a...

Grazer's Ruse
Early in his career, legendary Hollywood producer Brian Grazer came up with a st...

Pantheon
One day Alphonse Allais was called upon to deliver a lecture on the subject of t...

Banque de France
In later life, Tristan Bernard often found himself in dire financial straits. In...

Naked Came the Stranger
In 1969, on a literary lark, the legendary editor Mike McGrady assembled a group...

Sense of Humor
At the height of his fame, Alexander Woollcott was often mentioned in the arts c...

Prop Master
In 2001, Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn co-starred in Bob Dolman's ...

Faster, Better, Cheaper
One day Jay Leno was surprised to learn that NASA's motto is 'Faster, Better, Ch...

Swelled Head
"Long runs made [legendary actor and theater manager] Beerbohm Tree so fidgety h...

Coulda Been
American vice presidents have historically held remarkably little political powe...

Mime
"I'm walking to work up Sixth Avenue," David Letterman once recalled, "and it's ...

Paraplegic Brando
While preparing for his role as a paraplegic in Fred Zinnemann's ...

Going Deaf
One day in April 2003, Jay Leno learned that Bill Clinton was said to be going d...

Jim Morrison: Whoooopeeeee!
While out shopping one day, Doors frontman Jim Morrison spotted a friend's siste...

Classic Milligan
The great British comedian Spike Milligan once telephoned an airline and was pla...

Tonight Show Sex Study
"A study has found that gay men, on average, have substantially larger organs th...

George W. Bush: Miserable F...
"If you go to the Internet search engine Google, type in 'miserable failure,' an...

Rudy Giuliani: SNL
After the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington in September 2001, comedy...

Slick Willy
"Arizona is the first state to allow voting on the internet," Bill Maher reporte...

David Niven: Homing Pigeons
"When David Niven joined the army during the last war [World War II] he became i...

Distributed Intelligence?
Near the end of World War II, the young Princess Elizabeth, wishing to make a co...

Thomson's Lasses
The famed physicist William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) was a professor of natur...

Joe Clark's Hole
One day near the turn of the millennium, "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" cohost Rick ...

Standing Joke
The blue-eyed, carrot-topped, freckle-faced leading man Van Johnson zoomed to pr...

Welcome Black
During a guest appearance on "Last Call with Carson Daly" one evening, Jay Mohr ...

Yoga Instructor
One day in October 2003, George Clooney appeared as a guest on "The Tonight Show...

David Duchovny: Size Matters
While starring in Ivan Reitman's sci-fi comedy Evolution, David Duchovny'...

Chubb Peabody
According to some of his detractors, Massachusetts Governor Chubb Peabody had ha...

April Fool's
"We are told that Phillips Brooks' preaching was fired by a glowing personality....

Alice Cooper Obituary
One day in the early 1970s, a British music magazine ran a mock obituary for Ali...

Candid Camera Robbery
While setting up for a "Candid Camera" segment in a bank one day, Peter Funt (th...

Bob Baffert: Big Balls in C...
"In the early '80s [the legendary racehorse trainer Bob Baffert and fellow train...

C-Murder
"Yesterday in Louisiana," Conan O'Brien announced in September 2003, "the rapper...

Josey Scott: Christmas Gift
Saliva frontman Josey Scott was once asked about the gifts he had received for C...

Groucho Marx: Two Dozen Roses
"Send two dozen roses to Room 424," Groucho Marx once instructed, "and put 'Emil...

Groucho Marx: Good Looks
"She got her good looks from her father," Groucho Marx once remarked of an acqua...

Groucho Marx: Test of Honesty
"There's one way to find out if a man is honest," Groucho Marx once remarked. ...

John Barrymore: Pinhead (long)
John Barrymore once appeared in a London run of The Dictator, starring Wi...

Howie Mandel: Trapdoor
"Todd Barry opened for [Howie Mandel] once at one of these things in a roundabou...

Gob: Chocolate Bar
During a tour stopover in Chicago one day, Gob frontman Theo pulled a classic pr...

Michael Moore: Pfizer Hotline
In 2004, Fahrenheit 9/11 director Michael Moore announced that his next p...

Dana Snow: Adopted?
"I asked my mother if I was adopted," Dana Snow once recalled. "She said, 'Not y...

Al Franken: Baby Shower
After the birth of their first child, Al Franken and his wife Franny were invite...

Nicole Richie: Little Joke
Nicole Richie: "I have this friend Alex and I always play little jokes on her. I...

My Bologna
"Weird Al" Yankovic once produced a parody of The Knack's classic song "My Sharo...

Ice Breaker?
Virgin Records' founder Richard Branson was once invited to an exclusive party a...

Just Do It!
After scoring her Women's World Cup-winning goal in July 1999, American striker ...

Anglo-Saxon Swine!
While working in Paris in 1949, Brendan Behan - a housepainter by trade - was as...

Behan's Blessing
Just before he died, Behan looked up at a nun who was taking his pulse. "Bless y...

Wilde About Flowers
Oscar Wilde, staying with friends in the country, arrived for breakfast one morn...

Fred Allen: Five Thousand C...
Jack Parr idolized the comedian Fred Allen. At their first meeting, the "Tonight...

Gillian Anderson: Class Clown
On the eve of her high school graduation (from City High School in Grand Rapids,...

Billy Crystal: Medical Advice
Garry Shandling once asked Billy Crystal for medical advice. "I said, 'My penis ...

Jon Lovitz: Poop-Head
Jon Lovitz once appeared as a guest on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (a fellow...

One Evening at Dusk...
One evening at dusk, Peter Davies was summoned to J. M. Barrie's room. "[I found...

Minor Omission
One morning while teaching English composition at Yale University, John Berdan r...

Adolph Green: Taste of Death
"[Broadway composer Adolph Green] never stopped insisting on delight. Green's wi...

*elcome to the *hite House
On Bill Clinton's last day in the White House, his departing aides played a curi...

West Wing
Former Attorney General Janet Reno was hardly famous for her feminine charms. Sh...

Look Ma!
The French composer Erik Satie once appended the following direction to one of h...

Black Humor?
One afternoon, the doorbell rang in Peter Sellers's London flat. As Sellers was ...

Coventry Cathedral
During the early 1960s, a comedian posing as Sir Basil Spence, the architect beh...

Barbie Liberation Organisation
"Naturally, there are periodic uprisings against Barbie. In the early 1990s, Mat...

Last Goodbye?
"The call demanding John Huston's service during World War II came by phone when...

Celine Dion: Celine Dion Jokes
There is no shortage of jokes about Celine Dion's music. One day in 2002, for ex...

Tiger Woods: Black & White
"Hockey is a sport for white men," Tiger Woods once declared. "Basketball is a s...

Whiz Quiz
When it rains in Burbank, California, water flowing from the roof of Michael Gra...

How to Behave at a Country ...
"J.C. Ackerman, who was to become vice-chairman of the News Chronicle and Sir W....

MacRx
During one of his American tours, William Macready, famed for his illegible hand...

Bureaucracy
"Novelist and essayist George A. Birmingham was in his nonliterary life a clergy...

Classic Ashcroft
Shortly after the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001, U.S. Attorney Gener...

Declaration of Flatulence?
Though Thomas Jefferson is credited as the chief author of the Declaration of In...

Hans-Peter Salzmann
"A 'thought-translation' device created by German psychologist Niels Birbaumer h...

Publisher's Bible
One day Lord Byron gave his publisher, John Murray, a handsomely bound Bible, it...

Presidents of Israel
Kirk Douglas (whose Jewish parents emigrated to America from Russia in 1912) had...

Jacko's Nose
One evening on "The Tonight Show" Jay Leno announced that Michael Jackson had ha...

Mischievous Gest
During a guest appearance on Rosie O'Donnell's final show, Nathan Lane fueled sp...

Racy Humor
Sarah Silverman often raised eyebrows with her racially-charged humor. "People a...

Spring Break
One day in May 2003, Mike Bullard visited the bank with his mother, who was plan...

Hudson's Homosexuality
Though Rock Hudson's homosexuality was public knowledge by the time of his death...

Damn Fool
Among the cast on The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) was a c...

Dennis McKinley: Being a Ca...
One day in June 2003, Jay Leno reported that Arizona Cardinals fullback Dennis M...

Phishy Story
Phish, famed for their enormous online community of fans (numbering as many as 4...

Holy Roller
James Thurber's sense of humor may have been inherited: "One of his mother's fin...

Portrait of a Madman
In the late 1990's, Brian Grazer started putting photographs of himself, grinnin...

Donor Crosby
In 2000, it was revealed that Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Julie Cypher, h...

Fleiss
In November 1999, a legendary Hollywood madam found herself in a spot of financi...

Asylum
"Having, in a fit of unsociability, banished all visitors from his home, Renisha...

George W. Bush: Future Stat...
"When young Bush was at Yale in the Sixties," Hunter S. Thompson once reported, ...

Comic Insult
The stand-up comic Katie Davis, whose material was largely inspired by her husba...

Makropoulos Affair
During the rehearsals of The Makropoulos Affair, the composer Leos Janace...

For Real?
British comedian Ali G once interviewed famed feminist professor Sue Less, the d...

Andy Rooney
"Andy Rooney turned 81 today," Craig Kilborn reported on January 14th, 2000. "He...

Big Trouble
In July 2003, Britain's Jockey Club attempted to stop a French horse from runnin...

Peter Fonda: Fonda Workout
"I've been doing the Fonda workout," Kevin Meaney once reported. "The Peter Fond...

Twain's Word
Having attended a service one day delivered by the future bishop of Albany, Mark...

Handy Letter
In 1839, a young composer left his native Germany to seek fame and fortune in Pa...

Leo the Lion
Director Marshall Neilan cultivated a first-rate rivalry with MGM chief Louis B....

Classical Conditioning
"Anton Bruckner had a chubby, fat pug dog named Mops," Fritz Kreisler, a former ...

Postcards from the Edge
Shortly after Johnny Morgan's cremation, many of friends of the late British bui...

Ballooning Mischief
"When you are there with no wind," hot air balloonist Christine Turnbull once re...

Spielberg: Jaws Joker
One day during the production of Jaws, Steven Spielberg invited fellow di...

Celebrity Jeopardy?
Although Hector Elizondo had appeared in more than 40 films, he appreciated the ...

Captain's Log
Patrick Stewart once offered a word of advice to the show's fans. "If William Sh...

Practical Joker
One day on the set of Andrew Niccol's Gattaca, Uma Thurman snuck up on he...

Twain Meeting
One day Henry Irving, in the midst of telling Mark Twain a humorous story, abrup...

Spy Game?
As part of Spy Game was scheduled to be shot in Israel, David Fincher (th...

Slaight Problem
While co-starring in "Long Day's Journey into Night" in Washington, Kevin Spacey...

Simple Arithmetic
Incredibly, the great number theorist Ernst Kummer was so inept at simple arithm...

Pure Shaq
Shaquille O'Neal was frequently upbraided by coach Chuck Daly for his tardiness....

Club Rules
While playing golf one hot summer day, Harpo Marx and George Burns elected to fi...

Watch This!
While visiting a speakeasy one day, Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker were show...

Appendectomy
Wilson Mizner was once hospitalized for an appendectomy. Before his surgery, he ...

Marx Brothers: Bachelor Party
Groucho and Harpo Marx were once invited to a bachelor party at a restaurant in ...

Ikku
Shortly before his death, Ikku handed several small packages to his disciples, o...

Foch!
During World War I, Marshal Foch's driver Pierre was frequently pestered by repo...

Stop Dying
Addison Mizner and his brother Wilson ran various businesses together and were v...

Le Quex
"William Le Quex, the author of many popular mystery stories, was much addicted ...

Too Soon?
In 2001, after some forty years, Woody Allen announced that he had stopped seein...

George Clooney: Blackjack
One day during the filming of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven in Las V...

Rodney Dangerfield: Lost Child
"Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman and asked him to help me find my parent...

Dame Judy
While hosting the 2001 Oscars, Billy Crystal jokingly "read the minds" of severa...

Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Pot...
One day during the production of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" Dani...

Rockin' Pope
In September 1999, Pope John Paul II hosted a debt relief concert in Italy featu...

Tommy Cooper: Taxi Tip
Comedian Tommy Cooper got out of a taxi one day and slipped something papery int...

Hillary Clinton: Carpetbagger
While campaigning for a seat in the New York senate, Hillary Clinton, an Illinoi...

War in Iraq
Dennis Miller marveled at the decisiveness of America's victory in Iraq. "It was...

Party Animal?
In 2001, Senator James Jeffords left the Republican Party, single-handedly shift...

Blonde Jokes
Dolly Parton's appearance engendered considerable speculation - and not just on ...

Paula Trashed
In July 2003, Paula Jones, famed for her allegations (of sexual misconduct) agai...

Don Rickles: Enter Sinatra
Few comics dared to make jokes at Frank Sinatra's expense. Richard Belzer, howev...

Johnny Knoxville & the Lock...
Maxim magazine's David Peisner once had the pleasure of interviewing John...

Cosby
After a performance one evening, Bill Cosby was visited backstage by an aide who...

Classic Send-Up?
In 1998, John Glenn became the oldest man to venture into space. Shortly after h...

Guantanamo Bay
"Some human rights groups are complaining that the al Qaeda detainees in Guantan...

Warm Gesture
"Late in his career, [pitcher] Don Sutton was often accused of scuffing. In 1978...

Monkey Mischief
"The few documented cases of animal humor are physical in nature. The researcher...

Bette Midler: Kiss My Brass
"I've seen the young people," Bette Midler declared during a performance of her ...

Abbie Hoffman: Yippie Stunt
One day in 1967, the legendary counterculture satirists Jerry Rubin, Stew Albert...

Land of Smiles
One day in 1992, while Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney and separatist lea...

Parenthetical Joke
Ralph Fiennes was once asked to share his favorite joke. "Noel Coward dies and g...

Epistemology
In his Meditations on First Philosophy, Rene Descartes sought to examine ...

Expanding Girth
Max Wilkinson, associate editor of Good Housekeeping magazine, was always...

Vivica A. Fox?
Vivica A. Fox was once told that her name was a question. The answer? "You bet y...

Horror Story
"A few years ago in Scotland," Stephen King once recalled, "this one austere lad...

Brent Forrester: Sitcom Humor
Early in his writing career, Brent Forrester undertook a careful study of sitcom...

Celebrity Surprise
Before attending Denis Leary's celebrity roast in 2003, Rene Russo visited a mak...

Deepest Secrets of the Medi...
When the famous Dutch physician and chemist Hermann Boerhaave died in 1738, he l...

Jon Stewart: Parting Gift
When 5' 7" Jon Stewart took over as host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" he...

Actors' Studio
John Leguizamo was accepted into Lee Strasberg's actors' studio in 1982, and stu...

Barry Sheene
British motorcycling legend Barry Sheene notched up so many high-speed crashes t...

Soul of Wit
On his 91st birthday, Milton Berle was honored at the Friars Club, the famed fra...

What a Crowd
As the Friars Club's abbot emeritus, Milton Berle was a fixture at celebrity fun...

Yoko Ono: Slamming Yoko
Like her creative endeavors, Yoko Ono herself was often critically lambasted. "I...

Bottom Line
In 1999, Jennifer Lopez insured her body for a billion dollars. "How does that w...

Whitney Houston
In January 2000, Jay Leno reported that Hawaiian security guards had discovered ...

John Kerry: Vietnam Cowboy
"John Kerry's physical daring - as a skier, a windsurfer, a motorcycle rider, a ...

Rebel Without a Cause
One day during the production of Rebel Without a Cause (1955), James Dean...

Sock Trick
In 1994, Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis recounted a seminal momen...

Black Blooper
Don Rickles once made a memorable guest appearance on the "Tonight Show With Joh...

Silly Glasses
"Years ago, Phil Silvers had a crush on Olivia Ue Havilland. She went out with h...

Invitation
While Edward VII was Prince of Wales, he once invited Lord Charles Beresford - o...

Johnny Carson: Tick Talk
"At the far end of the deskside couch [on Johnny Carson's 'Tonight Show' set] wa...

Hotel Bibles
H. L. Mencken had a curious habit. Whenever he found a Bible in his hotel room, ...

Sean Connery: Scotland Forever
During a guest appearance on "The Tonight Show" one evening, Sean Connery was as...

Wuthering Heights
When Samuel Goldwyn enlisted the veteran screenwriters Charles MacArthur and Ben...

Anthony Kiedis: Simple Plan
While studying at UCLA, future Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis was...

Keith Richards: Larvely
Early in his career, Keith Richards wired the bathroom in his apartment for soun...

Sweet Jaysus
One day in 1977, future U2 frontman Bono Vox was driving with some school chums ...

Shaggadelic Notion?
"In the 1930s Winston Churchill's critics called him rash, impetuous, tactless, ...

Scary Thought
"Michael Jackson is going to quit touring and concentrate on acting," 'Tonight S...

Lucky Thirteen
"Ike Turner's thirteenth wife has left him," Bill Maher reported in December 199...

Big Appetite
"Bill Clinton was the person most mentioned in gossip columns this year," Jay Le...

Dangerous Proposition
In February 2000, O. J. Simpson announced plans to marry again. "O.J.'s girlfrie...

Bethany Sloshed
In March 2000, Jay Leno reported that Bethany Tosh, Miss Northeast Arkansas, had...

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Age ...
During an appearance on the "Tonight Show with Jay Leno" in June 2003, Arnold Sc...

André the Joker
"André the Giant once invited Arnold Schwarzenegger to a wrestling arena in Mexi...

Bruce Almighty
In June 2003, shortly after the release of Tom Shadyac's classic comedy ...

Choices, Choices
"My mother always gave me two choices for dinner," Buddy Hackett once recalled. ...

Isaac Bickerstaff
"In 1707 Jonathan Swift decided to laugh the fraudulent John Partridge [the noto...

Free Shave
While traveling through a small Swiss town, the Swiss physicist Auguste Piccard,...

Zeta Hypothesis
The great mathematician G. H. Hardy was once invited to deliver the keynote addr...

Einstein's Promise
While working with fellow physicist Abraham Pais at the Princeton Institute for ...

War Gags
For a certain scene in John Badham's War Games (1983), Matthew Broderick ...

Madonna: Children's Books
"Madonna," Conan O'Brien reported in early March 2003, "is coming out with five ...

Bush Roast
In March 2001, George W. Bush made his first appearance as president at the Grid...

Benny's Wedding
Notwithstanding his famous miserly persona, Jack Benny, according to his manager...

Fahrenheit: Serendipity!
"Fahrenheit was born on this day in 1686," Leno reported on May 24th one year. "...

Mad Mike (long)
While interviewing Mike Tyson in a corner booth in a greasy restaurant in Las Ve...

Banksy at the Tate
In October 2003, Britain's "most celebrated graffiti artist" Banksy, famed for s...

Young Fabio: Holy Terror
Young Fabio was a mischievous child. "I was very active," he recalled. "I was al...

Pierce Bottom: Bottom Party
"Pierce Bottom once searched the London telephone directories for names with 'bo...

Ladies' Man
"The only reason he had a child," David Letterman once declared of legendary lad...

Salami Surprise
Walter Matthau was an inveterate practical joker. On the set of Donald Petrie's ...

Johnny Carson: Bomb Recovery
"Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson was unparalleled in his ability to recover fro...

George W. Bush & Jean Poutine
One day during the 2000 presidential election race, George W. Bush was asked by ...

Historic Speeches
"Later this month in Arkansas," Conan O'Brien reported in March 2003, "former Pr...

Bette Midler's Marriage
Bette Midler once remarked that she and her husband had "the perfect division of...

Everybody Loves Raymond
At the 2000 Golden Globes, Ray Romano was named best actor in a comedy for his r...

Route One Christmas Catalog
In 2003, Route One's Richard Boissevain learned that the one of his employees (a...

Ozzy Osbourne: Ozzy at the ...
On May 5, 2002, Ozzy Osbourne joined a host of luminaries at the White House Cor...

Peter Farrelly & the Bulbou...
Shortly after landing a role in the Farrelly brothers' goofball comedy ...

George Clooney Interview
In 2003, Vanity Fair's Ned Zeman interviewed George Clooney in Italy (whe...

Gilda Radner: Parakeet
At his first cast meeting, "Saturday Night Live" writer Alan Zweibel was severel...

Zimbabwe Farce
As the Zimbabwe's economy collapsed at the turn of the millennium, artists and c...

Wim Deetman & Fan
After a meeting with the directors of a local soccer club (ADO Den Haag) in Janu...

Elijah Wood: Joking Hobbits
During the production of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Elijah Wood, Sean...

Chevalier de Coislin: Bored...
"It happened that he went with his brothers... on one of the King's excursions,"...

Bob Hope & the Academy Awards
Though he hosted the Academy Awards a record 17 times, Bob Hope himself never wo...

Richard Lewis: Actor, Write...
In the 2000 media guide for their men's basketball team, Ohio State University i...

Young Howie Mandel
The comedian Howie Mandel was once expelled from his Toronto high school - after...

Ashton Kutcher: Punk'd
"In high school I was in wrestling," Ashton Kutcher recalled, "and for initiatio...

Ashton Kutcher & Demi Moore
In 2003, 41-year-old Demi Moore began dating 25-year-old Ashton Kutcher. "It's b...

Lynda Montgomery: Dining at...
Lynda Montgomery once dined at Sea World. "Why does Sea World have a seafood res...

Rodney Dangerfield: Rough Day
Rodney Dangerfield had more than his share of rough days. "I got up this morning...

Tommy Cooper: Cooper Diet
Tommy Cooper struggled with his weight and was often advised to go on a diet. "I...

Rita Rudner: Competitive Re...
Rita Rudner and her husband had a competitive relationship. "I beat my husband a...

Bette Midler: German Marriage
"I married a German," Bette Midler remarked one day after her wedding to Martin ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Sex ...
"California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger came under fire this w...

Clay Aiken Christmas Special
"American Idol" finalist Clay Aiken's effeminate manner occasioned countless nas...

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anni...
"This week, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston traveled to the Middle East to try t...

Bob Dole: Viagra Spokesman
Shortly after his defeat in the 1996 presidential election, Bob Dole, to the del...

George Meyer: Simpsons Writer
"Simpsons" writer Mike Scully once recalled an incident which occurred while the...

Marc Bergevin: Smartass
One day in 2003, as the NHL trade deadline approached, veteran Pittsburgh Pengui...

Dick Cavett: Censor's Compl...
When "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson fell ill one day, Dick Cavett was called ...

Gene Weber: Last Will and T...
"Walter Winchell once called Weber [legendary publicity agent Gene Weber] 'the f...

John Kerry: Fundraiser
"It was reported today that John Kerry is hoping to raise $80 million before the...

Randy Shakes: Reincarnation...
"Last month I blew $5,000 on a reincarnation seminar," Randy Shakes once remarke...

James Scott: Ima Sucker
"I'm a legend," Charleston Post and Courier reporter James Scott declared...

John Edwards: Two Americas
"The Super Tuesday Primaries were today," Conan O'Brien reported in early March ...

David Wells: Positively Chubby
"Major League Baseball announced that between 5 and 7% of baseball players have ...

Al Sharpton: Presidential H...
"The Washington Post says that, of the nine Democratic candidates, Wesley...

George Clooney: Rubenesque ...
During his divorce from Talia Balsam (in 1992-3), George stayed for nine months ...

David Siegel: Resignation
In April 2004, "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno announced that David Siegel had resi...

Drew Carey: Running Stop Signs
"When it rains really hard, I like to run stop signs jut to make cops get out of...

Yakov Smirnoff: Yep
"Yep in English mean yes," Yakov Smirnoff once remarked. "In Russian, means sex....

Alice B. Toklas: Haschich F...
"In 1952, Alice B. Toklas signed a contract to write a collection of recipes and...

Siegfried and Roy: Friendly...
Penn and Teller enjoyed a friendly rivalry with fellow magicians Siegfried and R...

Jay Leno: Comedy Challenge
During an appearance on "The Tonight Show" one evening, Dr Phil was challenged b...

Michael Moore: Hunting Season
After a year at the University of Michigan, Michael Moore started a small altern...

Peter Farrelly: Wedding Pla...
The Farrelly brothers' goofball antics were not limited to the realm of film. "W...

Ginnifer Goodwin: Heehaw, G...
After graduating with a BFA in acting from Boston University, Ginnifer Goodwin s...

Dame Judy Dench: Put-On Humor
"Judy Dench's love of put-on humor, the ruder the better, is legendary. Once whi...

Dick Gregory: Santa in the ...
"I never believed in Santa Claus," Dick Gregory once recalled. Why not? "Because...

The Replacements: Big Stink
The Replacements once played a showcase gig for a group of record industry bigwi...

Kevin Smith: Dogma is Shit
Kevin Smith and Bryan Johnson once joined a large group of religious fanatics pr...

Natalie Portman: The Necklace
During the production of Closer (2004), Natalie Portman gave co-star Juli...

Dave Eggers: Adam Rich Rumor
As a joke, Dave Eggers and Adam Rich (famed for his role as Nicholas Bradford on...

Jackie Mason Introduction
"He brought me up one time," Dom Irrera once recalled of legendary comedian Jack...

Tom Green: Hotel Porn
Tom Green once traveled across Canada in a van with two of his friends, filming ...

Elvis Presley: Red Herring?
Though she was engaged to Frank Sinatra at the time, Juliet Prowse once had a to...

Dave Wannstedt: Resignation
On November 9, 2004, "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno reported that Miami Dolphins c...

Red Buttons: Sorry State
"Sure, I've gotten old," Red Buttons once conceded. "I've had two bypass surgeri...

Prince Harry: Hey, Your Hig...
"Prince Harry of England has admitted experimenting with marijuana," Craig Kilbo...

Michael Bloomberg: Taking t...
"Michael Bloomberg says that he intends on taking the subway to work every day,"...

Martha Stewart: Paper Money
"Martha Stewart earned $43 million today," Conan O'Brien announced one day in No...

Johnny Depp: Fraught with T...
Johnny Depp was great fun on the set of Finding Neverland. "There was one...

Heidi Klum's Legs
During an appearance on "The Tonight Show" one evening, Heidi Klum told her host...

Paige Davis, Porn Star
"It's been reported that Paige Davis, the host of 'Trading Spaces,' may have sta...

Colin Farrell: Pocket Rocket
"He was a f---ing nut," Angelina Jolie recalled of Colin Farrell and his antics ...

Al Franken: Office Prank
While working as writers on "Saturday Night Live," Marilyn Suzanne Miller and Al...

Christopher Hitchens: Advic...
"When I worked at the old New Statesman magazine in London," Christopher ...

Rusty Wallace: Something's Up
NASCAR driver Rusty Wallace once recalled preparing for a race in Darlington, So...

Michael Jackson: Fingerprints
"The police have found Michael's fingerprints and the 13-year old boy's fingerpr...

Redd Foxx: Rough Sex
"A girl asked me [somthing] a couple of weeks ago," Redd Foxx once recalled. "Sh...

Garry Shandling: Stamina
"I once made love for an hour and five minutes," Garry Shandling once recalled. ...

Kevin James: Googled?
"King of Queens" star Kevin James was once asked if he had ever googled himself....

Emo Philips: Lemonade Stand
As a child Emo Philips often ran a lemonade stand in the summer. "At my lemonade...

Emo Philips: Reducing Pills
Emo Philips was once stopped by police for speeding. "I said, 'Officer, I'm taki...

Dennis Miller: Pardon Me
Dennis Miller was often irked by born-again Christians. "I'm a little indignant ...

Jose Canseco: Rampant 'Roids
"Today Jose Canseco's book [Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits, and ...

Donald Trump: Friar's Club ...
On October 15, 2004, shortly before his wedding to model Melania Knauss, Donald ...

Paris Hilton: That's Ridicu...
"According to the 'Hollywood Reporter,' Paris Hilton has legally trademarked the...

Ian Somerhalder: The Kiss
After shooting a scene one day on the set of "Lost," Ian Somerhalder playfully s...

Bette Middler: You Made Me ...
Bette Midler was Johnny Carson's last guest on "The Tonight Show." With the he...

Liberace's Ghost
"Since succumbing to complications from AIDS in 1987, Liberace has taken up resi...

Tim Cavanagh: Aptitude Test
Tim Cavanagh: "When I finished school, I took one of those career aptitude tests...

Dobie Maxwell: Lazy
Dobie Maxwell: "We're single guys, nobody washes dishes. I had to go to the clos...

Barry Manilow: Dental Surgery
"Barry Manilow is recovering from an infection after dental surgery," Conan O'Br...

Zack de la Rocha: AATA
In 2001, Zack de la Rocha quit Rage Against the Machine. "He's toning it down in...

George S. Kaufman: Society ...
The playwright and wit George S. Kaufman once received a request for a letter fr...

Jay Leno: Fake Suicide
Young Jay Leno often played a prank on substitute teachers. "This required an ac...

Jay Leno: The Parakeet
Jay Leno: "Michael Caine and I hit it off from the start. More than anything els...

Jimmy Kimmel: Valentine's Day
Sarah Silverman once recalled the moment she knew she was in love with Jimmy Kim...

Walt Disney: Fantasia
After using part of the "Pastorale Symphony" in Fantasia (1940), Walt Dis...

Charlize Theron: Kiddie Ride
After injuring her neck while shooting Aeon Flux (2005), Charlize Theron ...

Queen Elizabeth: Dreadfully...
"Queen Elizabeth was riding in a carriage with a dignitary during a State Visit....

Sesame Street President
In February 2003, America's Homeland Security department announced that the nati...

If the Shoe Fits...
Julius III once engaged a shoemaker to fashion special papal slippers. When they...

¿Broma Práctica?
When Humphrey Bogart took Verita Peterson, his hair dresser and mistress, to Rom...

50-50
Despite having bet on Richard Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, Ann Lande...

Hallström
During the production of The Shipping News, Kevin Spacey, famed for his i...

Steve Martin: Sex Line
"I believe that sex is the most beautiful, natural, and wholesome thing," Steve ...

Gates Baby
Bill Gates, expecting his second child in 1999, was said by some Microsoft emplo...

Hatchet Job?
Gallagher, having looked for a copywriting job for several months, at last accep...

Oscar Winner?
Pamela Anderson was once asked to recall the cheesiest pick-up line she had ever...

Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt Chamberlain, famed for his claim to have slept with some 20,000 women, once...

Rhymes With Gibe?
One evening John Dryden attended a party at which a number of fashionable wits w...

Los Angeles Marathon
In his capacity as grand instigator and supreme leader of the Los Angeles Cacoph...

Chuckleberry Finn?
After thousands of copies of Twain's Huckleberry Finn had been printed an...

Appointment with the President
Comedian Will Rogers was once invited by president Harding to visit the White Ho...

What the.. Falk? (long)
At the tender age of three, Peter Falk had his right eye surgically removed (and...

¿qué el infierno?
Tallulah Bankhead once dropped a fifty-dollar bill into a Salvation Army player'...

Village Villain?
After Tracy Morgan's classic crank phone call to the Village Voice Person...

Age Thing
One day during an appearance on British television in 2002, Joan Collins was ask...

Roscoe Born
"For the last several shows in my first stint on 'One Life To Live,' Mitch was t...

AARP
During a production of "The Tonight Show" one evening, "Tonight Show" host Jay L...

Avian Water?
One day Maurice Barrymore took his children to the zoo. Young John - fascinated ...

Matchbook
Among President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's lesser-known orders was to have a ne...

New Canal
While rowing up the Thames one day with a friend (the actor Charles Mathews), Th...

Insane Anglo Warlord?
Just before going on the air for a radio broadcast one day, Ronald Reagan leaned...

Good Deeds
Shortly after the appearance of Mr. Deeds (in which he played Longfellow ...

Celine Dion: Let's Make a H...
One day in August 2002, Celine Dion called Britney Spears and invited her to app...

Ambition
One day Louis XIV, apprised of the great ambition of a certain courtier, summone...

Mouth of the Potomac
"Monica Lewinsky's lost a lot of weight," Jay Leno said of Monica Lewinsky in No...

Fiction Writers
Arnold Schwarzenegger was once asked to name his favorite writers. "My favorite ...

Halle Berry: Hollywood Prem...
One day in November 2003, Halle Berry arrived at a Los Angeles cinema for the gl...

Smoky Suspense
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Loren Smith was a maverick smoker. He became a legen...

Lassie!
At George Meredith's funeral in 1909, Max Beerbohm was mistaken for fellow scrib...

Shavuot
While visiting Israeli president Moshe Katsav's home in Jerusalem in 2002, forme...

Paul Reubens: Pulling For P...
On July 26, 1991, Paul Reubens, vacationing at his parents' home in Sarasota, Fl...

Phenorkling?
"Weird Al" Yankovic was once asked about an unusual favorite hobby. "I call it '...

Black Humor
Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black was once required to attend the funeral of a di...

World's Stingiest Man
Jack Benny was once confronted by an armed robber. "Your money or your life," th...

Broken Leg
Having failed to secure a desired nomination to the Royal Society, the famed cha...

Buck Shot (long)
One day on the set of one of his classic Westerns, the director W. S. Van Dyke r...

Zero Tolerance?
At Dorothy Parker's funeral service, the actor Zero Mostel explained that she ha...

Smoot Marks
The Harvard Bridge, linking Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, is notable for ...

Birth of Grunge
Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm was among a group of pranksters who once advertised a...

Gifted Mimic
"One day just after the war, [Kingsley Amis] and two friends were strolling alon...

Tiger Woods Endorsement Deal
In September 2000, Tiger Woods (who was playing golf at the age of two and beati...

Nawaz Sharif & Pervez Musha...
Shortly after Nawaz Sharif was overthrown by Pakistani General Pervez Musharraf ...

Young Seth Green
"My friend Breckin Meyer and I were really bad kids," Seth Green once recalled. ...

Nancy Pelosi
Dennis Miller was no fan of California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. "Nancy Pelosi...

Ham Sandwich?
One day, Meredith Vieira's husband began to get calls from friends:

Fishing for a Story
"I was once faced with the problem of entertaining millions of readers," the col...

World's Funniest Joke?
One Saturday evening in June 2001, as part of Dr Richard Wiseman's campaign to i...

Janet Reno
In 2002, Former Attorney General Janet Reno announced tentative plans to run for...

Bill Maher & R. Kelly
In 2001, R&B star R. Kelly (who married Aaliyah in 1994, when she was 15 years o...

Railway Scene
"My wife, Gladys Cooper, was playing at Leeds with Seymour Hicks," Herbert Buckm...

Aesop
Informed that one of Aesop's classic fables (The Milkmaid and Her Pail) w...

Horace Greeley's Handwriting
Tribune publisher Horace Greeley's famously illegible handwriting was int...

Olympic Souvenir
In September 2000, 103-year-old American Olympic platform diver Hal Prieste flew...

Gidean Gibe
The mystic poet Paul Claudel once unsuccessfully attempted to convert the libera...

Joshing Around
In 1833, a young man named Henry Wheeler Shaw was thrown out of Hamilton College...

George III: Vaneck's Behind
"At Mrs Vaneck's assembly last week, the Prince of Wales [most likely George III...

Judi Dench: Devilish Hobby
Dame Judi Dench once made a curious confession. "I have this devilish hobby of e...

George Bernard Shaw: Deligh...
While traveling by train one day, George Bernard Shaw found himself sharing a co...

Double Duty Radcliffe
One day the star Negro League pitcher and catcher Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe th...

Skeet Ulrich: Ride with the...
In 1999, Skeet Ulrich appeared as Jack Bull Chiles in Ang Lee's Civil War film, ...

Nobel Winner
Among Lev Landau's colleagues at the Physical Technical Institute was a certain ...

Personal Trainer
One day Ann Beattie, famed for her practical jokes, called Esquire editor Rust H...

Yow!
The Jesus Lizard's David Yow once made an unusual Halloween costume: A pin-strip...

Nothing in Common?
Jackie Gleason, Tom Hanks and director Garry Marshall had some difficulty captur...

Honorable Mention?
Sherry Stringfield, a graduate of Klein High School in Klein, Texas (just outsid...

Leonardo DiCaprio: Young Ro...
Leonardo DiCaprio, who grew up in Echo Park (a particularly seedy, drug-infested...

Naomi Wolf
"Al Gore's new advisor, [yuppie feminist author] Naomi Wolf, wrote a book saying...

Concussion
In November 1999 Broncos receiver Ed McCaffrey suffered another concussion. Was ...

Evel Knievel
"Evel Knievel, 61, just married a 30-year-old," Craig Kilborn reported one day i...

Black Belt
In 2000, former KGB agent Vladimir Putin was sworn in as President of Russia. "T...

Kaboodle
"The Ireland of [John B Keane's] early years was still locked in the sterile aft...

Barrymore's Body (long)
"The day John Barrymore died director Raoul Walsh was at Errol Flynn's house dri...

Visine Solution
During a guest appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" one evening, Amy Se...

Dick Armey?
Republican Congressman Dick Armey was noted neither for his tolerance of homosex...

Monks of Nashdom
"At the beginning of the war," Colin Stephenson once recalled, "the monks of Nas...

Freddie Hospitality
One night, police visited future Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and his mates to...

The Skinny on Moss
"Supermodel Kate Moss says she wants to get pregnant," Jay Leno reported in Febr...

Tim Allen's Divorce
In November 1999, Tim Allen's wife Laura Diebel filed for divorce after more tha...

Is Ricky Martin Gay?
"Ricky Martin [widely rumored to be gay] went home from the Grammys with a coupl...

Marmaduke Montague
"My telephone rang in Beverly Hills," Leo Rosten once recalled. "'Hello?' Voice,...

Tommm...
During the production of Minority Report, rumors circulated in the tabloi...

Jennifer Gareis
"My actress friend was rehearsing a love scene," Jennifer Gareis once recalled, ...

Prince Harry: Practical Joker
"Known for his happy-go-lucky attitude, the younger prince [Prince Harry] loves ...

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At the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, Ving Rhames was named Best Actor in a TV movie....

Sunscreen
"Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 1997... Wear sunscreen. Be kind to your kn...

Incognito (long)
Landon Ronald once recalled an incident concerning his mischievous fellow compos...

Embarrassment of Riches
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were notorious practical jok...

Monkey Business?
Could Mark Wahlberg have been the victim of a practical joke on the set of direc...

Arnold Schwarzenegger: Prac...
Among Arnold Schwarzenegger's practical jokes on the set? Accidentally 'spilling...

Comiskey Spacemen
On May 26, 1959, just before a game between the Chicago White Sox and the Clevel...

Classic Wahlberg
One day while riding in a car with director Penny Marshall, Mark Wahlberg rolled...

Celine Dion: In Vitro
In June 2000, Celine Dion announced that she was expecting to have a baby produc...

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In 2000, a practical joker submitted a picture of Britney Spears to hotornot.com...

Penny Pinchers
"In a speech to the Press Club William Blackwood replied to a jocular proposal b...

Ode to Genius
As a practical joke one of Richard Porson's Eton classmates borrowed his copy of...

Woody Walk?
Jay Leno once read that Woody Allen made a practice of taking his temperature ev...

Moby's Dick
In June 2000, Moby told Britain's Q magazine that he and several friends ...

Daniel Radcliffe: Tech Wizard
One day during the production of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" Dani...

Half Assed
Famed comedian Joey Adams was once awarded an honorary law degree by a Chinese u...

Power Switch
One day in May 2001, Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party, sin...

There's Always Chelsea...
In 2001, Hillary Clinton announced that she had absolutely no intentions of ever...

Practical Joker
"Henry Troy, one of New York's leading practical jokers once purloined from a cl...

Claude Debussy
After the success of Pelleas et Melisande, Claude Debussy was asked by th...

Getting a Lewinsky
Some time after it was revealed that President Bill Clinton had been conducting ...

George Wyle: Rest in Peace
In May 2003, Conan O'Brien was dismayed to learn of the passage of George Wyle, ...

Berners Street Hoax
Theodore Hook, a renowned practical joker, was once offended by a certain Mrs. T...

Michael Jackson, Pedophile?
In February 2003, Martin Bashir's Living with Michael Jackson aired in th...

Ha@@y Birthday
From the very beginning, Britney Spears's image as an innocent songstress was be...

Kevin Spacey: Gay?
Rumors of Kevin Spacey's homosexuality have engendered many silly jokes. "When h...

Legendary Paganini
The virtuoso violinist Niccolo Paganini often played using fewer than four strin...

Lech Walesa
"Fighting a populist campaign against his own former adviser, Lech Walesa was el...

To Alphonse
Alphonse Allais's library once contained a volume of Voltaire's works in which h...

Comic Emergency?
Like most comedians, Jon Stewart had great difficulty finding suitable material ...

Oy
Jon Stewart once described a joke which was slated to run on "The Daily Show": ...

Bentham Disappears?
Famed philosopher Jeremy Bentham's corpse once disappeared from its glass displa...

Queen Mother: Crank Calls
"Not once in [the Queen Mother's] 101 years did she have to draw her own curtain...

Robin Williams / Grammy Awards
At the 2003 Grammy Awards, Rod Stewart, Harvey Fierstein in drag, and a small, h...

Shipped on Time
The following excerpts are from a copy of the New York Times dated April 26t...

Honest Abe
One day two Quaker ladies found themselves discussing the relative merits of Abr...

Court Washerwoman
The composer Karl Maria von Weber served for a time as the personal secretary to...

Silent Spouse
Many eyebrows were raised in November 2000, when Catherine Zeta-Jones married Mi...

Sex Poll
"In a poll, 60% of the women said they couldn't reach orgasm unless they were in...

Young Benicio Del Toro: Tro...
"[Young Benicio Del Toro] kept up his reputation as a troublemaker, indulging in...

Janeane Garofalo: Pessimist
"I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things," Janeane Garofalo, never ...

Handel Untuned
Because he could scarcely bear the sound, the tuning of instruments was always p...

Stockwell Day Referendum
"Noting that the Canadian Alliance platform favored referenda, Rick Mercer used ...

Stand-up Comic
Comedian Dom Irrera: "Brad Garrett, from 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' told me he o...

Smart Comedian
During his monologue one evening "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien joked that Worl...

Think Tank
Shortly after ABC pulled the plug on his "Politically Incorrect" talk show in 20...

Cl OO ney
"Hollywood is filled with pranksters... and none of them more mischievous than G...

Cruise & Kidman
Shortly after Tom Cruise announced his intention to divorce Nicole Kidman, rumor...

Fermat's Last Theorem
Like most mathematicians, Pierre de Fermat studied many problems for his own amu...

Carson Retires
Even after his retirement, former "Tonight Show" host Johnny Carson regularly re...

Kiss Kiss
While flying in first class one day, Avril Lavigne was approached by a flight at...

Straight Advice?
As a young man, Alice Cooper was told one day that a male erection should point ...

Slick Plot
Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick was once invited by Tricia and Pat Nixon t...

Christopher Reeve: Lame Joke?
Shortly after a riding accident left him in a wheelchair, Christopher Reeve hear...

Hercules
Elton John once explained the origin of his middle name, Hercules (an equine cha...

Prince Charles & the Pudding
One day in May 2003, Prince Charles visited the Highdown Farm in Devon. After me...

Chess Quiz
The great chess grandmaster Siegbert Tarrasch once composed an examination paper...

Stolen Oscars
On March 10, 2000, 55 Academy Award statuettes were stolen en route from Chicago...

Barry Manilow: Dental Surgery
"Barry Manilow is recovering from an infection after dental surgery," Conan O'Br...

Motorcade
"A New York cab hit one of President Clinton's escort cars," Conan O'Brien repor...

Going to Bed
"What was very embarrassing was, after a rather terrifying evening, Lord Home (t...

Typical Male?
"Time named Albert Einstein 'Man of the Century,'" Jay Leno reported one ...

Lo Blow
One day in December 1999, Jennifer Lopez and Puffy Combs were arrested after a g...

Flasher
While appearing as a guest on "The Late Show with David Letterman" one evening, ...

Racial Profiling
"People want to say there isn't racial profiling at the airport," Jay Leno remar...

Everhard
One day at the turn of the Millennium, Martin Short reported that fuckingmodel A...

Diva Feud
Despite their claims to have "simply grown apart" while remaining on friendly te...

Clintus Interruptus
One day during a debate in the 2000 presidential election race, George W. Bush f...

Couric's Colon
"Katie Couric had an on-air colonoscopy," 'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart reported...

Madonna & Child
In March 2000, Madonna announced that she was pregnant with her second baby. "If...

Kilt
"Oh, I had such fun just now," Harold Nicolson wrote to his wife one day. "A wom...

Strange Bird
"A meeting of the Defence Committee included a number of senior Ministers and th...

Young Groucho
Groucho Marx's first professional appearance was made at the age of thirteen, a...

Melba's Gum
"Dame Nellie Melba habitually chewed gum, for preference a piece of Australian w...

The Great Sydney Smith
One day Sydney Smith encountered the lawyer and philosopher Sir James Mackintosh...

Rather Crazy
"CBS news anchor Dan Rather has interviewed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein," Cona...

Pepsi Contract
"Britney Spears admitted to Teen magazine this month that she is no longe...

Bohr & Heisenberg
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr once made a trip to Germany to atte...

Ugly Incident
In February 2002, "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno found himself embroiled in a mino...

Farrelly Brothers Film
"They use the same core group of production members from film to film," Wen Yann...

Hecht Hoax
"Another of my stories was flashed on the city in a seven-column front page head...

Martha Stewart: Inside Job
One day in August 2003, Jay Leno announced that Martha Stewart was convinced tha...

Shopping with Kunitz
The poet Stanley Kunitz was famed for his sly sense of humor and courtly manner....

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affl...
In 2003, Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck co-starred in Gigli, their first ...

Ugly Comment
One day in 2003, Jay Leno announced that video footage had allegedly surfaced sh...

Daschle & Lott
One day in late May 2001, Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords left the Republican Party...

Morally Bankrupt?
"Mike Tyson revealed that he is broke after losing 300 million dollars," Conan O...

Castro & Chavez
In August 2003, Cuban president Fidel Castro and Venezuelan president Hugo Chave...

Clooney's Vault
In 2003, George Clooney bought a home on lovely Lake Como in Italy. Among the co...

Conan & the Whale
One evening "Late Night" host Conan O'Brien treated his audience to a monologue ...

Mayer on Incest
One evening the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler found himself embroiled in a discu...

Old Tommy John
Legendary New York Yankees pitcher Tommy John was pitching well into his 40s. "T...

Green in Graceland
Tom Green, an inveterate practical joker, once went on a tour of Graceland - wea...

Matchbox 20 & The Feelers (...
"When we were in Australia," Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas once recalled, "we ...

Hawaiian Detour
Kelly Hu was once asked whether she had ever done mean things to "stupid Hawaiia...

Smith & Holmes
While filming an episode of "Dawson's Creek" one day (in the second season), Ker...

Ray Liotta & the Horse's Head
Ray Liotta, famed for his roles in such mafia films as GoodFellas and ...

Cowell & The Stig
One day in November 2003, a "Top Gear" presenter (and test-driver) named The Sti...

Send Some Love
One day in October 2003, as he was about to go on stage, Sir Paul McCartney rece...

Martha Stewart & ImClone
Shortly after being charged with insider trading of ImClone stock, Martha Stewar...

Classic Harpo
Harpo Marx loved to shock wastedrs with his zany antics. While dropping a friend...

Ivana Grump
In June 2000, Ivana Trump filed a lawsuit against an Italian TV station after it...

Kim Jong Il: Jet-Ski Joker
In 2004, "Mr. Fujimoto" - who once served as a sushi chef to North Korean dictat...

High School Prank
"We had a senior prank," Election director Alexander Payne once recalled,...

Myers Brothers
Mike Myers, the youngest of three boys, was often the victim of practical jokes....

Hugh Jackman: Bryan Singer ...
One day during the production of X-Men, director Bryan Singer gave Hugh J...

Ruben Studdard: Chubby Stud...
In August 2003, Conan O'Brien announced that 'American Idol' winner Ruben Studda...

Lieberman & Howard Dean
"Former vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman said today that if the Democra...

Circus Election
"Gary Coleman has announced that he is running for governor of California," Cona...

Charles Millar: Stork Race
Canadian lawyer Charles Millar's will consisted mainly of practical jokes. He wi...

Freddie Prinze, Joker (long)
During an appearance on "The View" one day, Freddie Prinze Jr. recalled a joke h...

Wine Gags
New York Times food and wine columnist Johnny Apple was naturally the tar...

Young Johnny Knoxville
"Jackass" star Johnny Knoxville learned the fine art of practical joking from hi...

Classic Muhammad Ali (long)
In October 2003, Esquire's Cal Fussman visited the boxing legend Muhammad...

Rita Rudner: Three Mile Jog
"I jogged for three miles once," Rita Rudner once recalled. "It was the worst ...

David Letterman: New York C...
"I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon," David Letterman once r...

Winston Churchill: War Chest
During World War II, Lord Mancroft was often dispatched from the War Office to t...

Say My Name!
Michael Ian Black once appeared in a prolonged sodomy scene with Bradley Cooper ...

Ryan Adams
During a concert at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium one evening, Ryan Adams was dis...

George Clooney: Phone Message
In 2003, George Clooney and some friends visited Hawaii's remote Kona Village Re...

William McGonagall: Oblivious
Though widely hailed as the world's worst poet, William McGonagall was apparentl...

Keystone Stuntmen
Keystone Studios founder Mack Sennett employed a variety of gags in his films an...

Tommy Lee's Penis
"Pamela Lee said her name is tattooed on her husband [Motley Crue drummer Tommy ...

Duran Duran Look-Alike Contest
"We'd hire a little working men's club in Birmingham," Duran Duran's Simon Le Bo...

Jo Brand & the Albanian Anthem
In January 2004, comedian Jo Brand and the BBC formally apologised for a comment...

Arrogant Michael Dukakis
While campaigning prior to the 1988 presidential election, former Massachusetts ...

Al Gore: Being Boring
While campaigning prior to the 2000 presidential election, vice president Al Gor...

Bob Baffert: Winner's Circle
Before turning his hand to Thoroughbreds, the legendary horse trainer Bob Baffer...

Dick Tuck: Hughes Loan
Dick Tuck (whose business card once featured a mock dictionary entry for "politi...

Good Charlotte & New Found ...
"We've been known to play a prank or two," Good Charlotte frontman Joel Madden o...

Ashton Kutcher: Harassment
Punk'd was not Ashton Kutcher's first gig hosting a show based on practic...

Rita Rudner: Lonely Child
Rita Rudner was a lonely child. "When I was a kid, I had two imaginary friends,"...

Joan Rivers: First Porno
"I saw my first porno film the other day," Joan Rivers once confessed. "It was a...

Christina Aguilera & the CDC
One day in 2004, Conan O'Brien reported that someone on ebay was auctioning a bo...

Luciano Pavarotti: Prodigio...
Luciano Pavarotti's prodigious appetite occasioned countless jokes. "Yesterday L...

Gary Coleman: Tonight Show
After Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy in the 2003 California guber...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Hallo...
"This Halloween," Conan O'Brien announced in October 2003, "the most popular mas...

P. Diddy: Sean John Tracksuit
"Hip hop promoter Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs ran the New York marathon on Sunday in 4...

George Meyer: Comic Genius
The legendary "Simpsons" writer George Meyer regularly amazed his colleagues wit...

Ed Kelly: Rest in Peace
"Ed Kelly, the man who introduced America to Cool Whip, died at the age of 86," ...

Jay Mohr: Everyday Humor?
From the start of his career, Jay Mohr sought to set himself apart from other co...

Paris Hilton: Home Videos
"Paris Hilton was recently thrown off a horse," Jay Leno announced one day in Ma...

Adam Woodyatt: RearEnders
One day on the set, "EastEnders" star Adam Woodyatt decided to spice up his love...

Dear Abby: Bowled Over
Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby") once received a letter, signed "Stuck in a Love ...

Star Jones: Pole Dancer
"This week on 'The View,' Star Jones told the audience that she recently took a ...

Britney Spears: Slight Odor
"This week, Britney Spears announced plans to launch her own fragrance," Conan O...

Martha Stewart: Ask Martha
"It has been reported that Martha Stewart's advice column no longer goes by the ...

Martha Stewart: Shocker
"Earlier today, a federal judge in the Martha Stewart case shocked the court by ...

Derek Jeter: Rookie Hazing
"I got Marcus Thames pretty good two years ago," New York Yankees captain Derek ...

Ralph Nader: Campaign Joke
"Our old friend independent candidate Ralph Nader says he thinks the draft is co...

Mike Tyson: Voice Lift
"The latest thing in plastic surgery now is something called the 'voice lift'," ...

Jim Moloney: Every Sperm is...
"I recently got married," Jim Moloney once reported, "and during the ceremony th...

Lorne Michaels: Evil Producer
"Saturday Night Live" creator/producer Lorne Michaels was not equally beloved by...

Woody Harrelson & Sean Penn:
"Here [on the set of The Thin Red Line] occurred one of the most terrifyi...

John Pinette: All You Can Eat
"I went to a Chinese all-you-can-eat buffet," plus-sized comedian John Pinette o...

Chubby John Moloney
"I've put on a lot of weight," John Moloney once remarked. "You won't believe th...

Steve Martin & Ronald Reagan
Steve Martin was no great fan of President Ronald Reagan. "I believe that Ronald...

Philip Michael Who?
"Don Johnson is being sued by a grocery store for failing to pay for more than $...

Billy Crystal: Getting Old
"At night, I'll notice a thigh will just start going," Billy Crystal once remark...

Benjamin Franklin: Bright I...
"One of Benjamin Franklin's most famous innovations started off as a joke. In 17...

John Kerry & Hunter S. Thom...
While campaigning in Colorado in June 2004, Democratic presidential candidate Jo...

Fidel Castro: WYMA
In 2003, a pair of wily Miami-based radio personalities tricked Cuban dictator F...

Leo Sewell: Penis Exhibit
Dumpster diving artist Leo Sewell produced many remarkable artworks from car par...

Viggo Mortensen: Vanity Fai...
During an interview with Vanity Fair's Alex Kuczynski in a restaurant sho...

John Terry: Vitamins
"We got these vitamin pills," Chelsea defender John Terry once recalled, "and Jo...

Bill Maher: Doping Issue
Sohrtly before the 2004 Olympics, Bill Maher was asked to share his thoughts on ...

Virginia Woolf: Foreign Dig...
"Virginia Woolf had an unusual fondness for practical jokes, and with her friend...

Henry Winkler: Happy Days!
Tom Bosley (who played Howard Cunningham on the classic sitcom "Happy Days") onc...

Jerry Falwell: Deadly Sins
"Jerry Falwell says homosexuality and abortion are sins," Dennis Miller once rep...

The Ramones & Johnny Rotten
A young, nervous Johnny Rotten once visited the Ramones backstage in London. The...

Jon Stewart: Geneva Accords
"I vow," 'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart remarked of the Geneva Accords, "that as ...

George W. Bush: WMDs
During a Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner in April 2004, G...

Letterman: Brilliant Move?
In 1993, "Late Night With David Letterman" moved from Peacock network NBC to the...

Rodney Dangerfield: Inpatient
In August 2004, Rodney Dangerfield had heart valve replacement surgery. "If thin...

Candid Camera Hand Dryer
As a gag for "Candid Camera" one day, Peter Funt rigged the hand dryer in a men'...

Crutchmaster
"On a muggy summer afternoon, the physically disabled break-dancer-performance a...

Dudley Moore: 5' 2½"
At 5' 2½", Dudley Moore made for an unlikely leading man. "I certainly did feel ...

Anastacia: Practical Joker
"I filled my tour manager's bed with whipped cream, yoghurt and tampons," Anasta...

Usher: On a Rant
One day in 2004, after arriving at Atlanta's Fox Theatre to shoot a new video, U...

Liam Neeson: Topher's Mom
"I introduced [Dennis Quaid] to my parents," Topher Grace once recalled, "and......

James Naismith: Basketball ...
"The sport of basketball is 113 years old today," Jay Leno reported on December ...

John Paul II: Popemobile
"The Pope's new Fiat, which can withstand direct machine-gun fire, was actually ...

Salma Hayek: Love Scene
One day on the set of After the Sunset, Salma Hayek and Pierce Brosnan sh...

Conan O'Brien: Skating with...
"We did a week of shows in Toronto," Conan O'Brien once recalled, "and I played ...

Albert Brooks: Babe Ruth Le...
"Above the desk in [Albert Brooks's] office, there hangs a framed letter. Few vi...

Dan Quayle: Appendicitis
"Dan Quayle recently had his appendix removed," Argus Hamilton once reported. "I...

Johnny Carson & Ed McMahon:...
Johnny Carson and Ed McMahon often played practical jokes on one another. "We ha...

Johnny Carson: Alpo Moment
During the filming of a "Tonight Show" episode one evening, Ed McMahon settled i...

Don Rickles & Frank Sinatra
Don Rickles once surprised Frank Sinatra during an appearance on "The Tonight Sh...

Craig Ferguson: Big Time Sh...
Craig Ferguson was once asked how he had ended up on "The Drew Carey Show." "I h...

John Ashcroft: Amateur Pilot
"John Ashcroft gives a different side of J. Robert, an amateur pilot, in his mem...

Terry Southern: Angry Censor
Rosie Shuster: "I was having this big fight with [a censor named] Clotworthy abo...

Michael O'Donoghue: Desi Ar...
Jack Handey: "I went over to this house one time for a ['Saturday Night Live'] H...

Michael Kelly: White House ...
Editor Robert Vare: "As a reporter for the Baltimore Sun, Mike [Michael K...

Jessica Simpson:
"Jessica Simpson's husband Nick Lachey was caught asking a blonde for her phone ...

Dave Acker: Walkman Gag
"My friend always wears his walkman downtown [in Montreal] so one day, a couple ...

Rita Rudner: White Car
Rita Rudner ("I only like cars because they take me to clothes") was once asked ...

Bill Murray: Memorial Ceremony
After the death of "Saturday Night Live" producer Audrey Dickman on May 21, 2002...

Wayne Newton & Frank Sinatra
"When [Frank Sinatra] called me the first time to have dinner with him I thought...

Jackie Mason: No Joke
"Jackie Mason joked about Frank Sinatra, believing Frank had a 'sickness' about ...

Emo Philips: Step by Step
Comedian Emo Philips: "The way I started out, I had three minutes [of material] ...

Rita Rudner: White Car
Rita Rudner ("I only like cars because they take me to clothes") was once asked ...

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill: ...
"Rapper Nelly has been nominated for two country music TV awards," Jay Leno repo...

Susan Sarandon: Bush Bashing
Sienna Miller discovered a kindred spirit in Susan Sarandon during the productio...

Corot: Forgeries
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot ranks among the greatest victims of forgery in the h...

Gary Sinise: Icebreaker
The day after learning that his producing partner, Brian Grazer, had been nomina...

Max Alexander
Overweight comedian Max Alexander once walked onstage and, without saying a word...

Dean Martin: Opening Bit
Comedy writer Gene Perret: "One of my favorite opening bits is Dean Martin's. He...

Al Gore: New Book
"Al Gore announced that he is finishing up a new book about global warming and t...

Bob Hope: Bar Association
Bob Hope once accepted an invitation to address the American Bar Association. "M...

Charlize Theron: Shirley Ma...
After injuring her neck while shooting Aeon Flux (2005), Charlize Theron ...

Phony Character
For many years, New Yorker editor Harold Ross had Eustace Tilley (the em...

Ronald Knox
Ronald Knox once taught for several years at St. Edmund's College, a Roman Catho...

What the Devil?
While fishing aboard a boat one day with his friend Frants Beyer, Edvard Grieg w...

Patience
"The empress Eugenie and her lady-in-waiting, Mme de Pourtales, were playing pat...

Psoriasis
In May 2002, Jerry Mathers (famed for his role as the Beav on the classic 1950s ...

Tripp
"Linda Tripp had $30,000-worth of plastic surgery," David Letterman reported in ...

Alan Greenspan: Enlarged Pr...
In April 2003, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan underwent surgery for an ...

Marcel Marceau
"Marcel Marceau opened last night at Theatre on the Square," ...

Mad Mel?
Mel Gibson once complained about his undeserved reputation. "Why is it that peop...

See No Evil
One day James Thurber, an inveterate practical joker, rolled an enormous water b...

Jazzy Joke?
Will Smith's star turn as Captain James West in the universally-panned 1999 film...

Yesss
Steve Cougan caught the acting bug when his sister returned from America in 1977...

Devious
During the production of When Pigs Fly, Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh m...

Big Dick's Halfway Inn
One day in June 2003, Mike Bullard was amused to receive a letter from a fan des...

Drunk on Power
"One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power," Jim Carrey declared...

Dustin Hoffman
One day during the production of Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1982), Dustin ...

Old Joke
During the production of Ocean's Eleven in Las Vegas, famed practical jok...

Fabulous Jackie Fargo
The professional wrestler "Fabulous Jackie Fargo," was a notorious prankster. On...

Proper Maff
British comedian Ali G once interviewed Sir Rhodes Boyson (a conservative educat...

Ruby Cross
In October 2002, David Gest celebrated his seven-month wedding anniversary with ...

Jerry-Pot
"As vicar of St Mary Magdalene, Oxford," Colin Stephenson once recalled, "I foun...

Damme Fool
"Jean-Claude Van Damme destroyed a $3,000-a-night hotel suite, shocking Hollywoo...

Quintuple Bypass
In February 2000, Kathie Lee Gifford hosted several episodes of "The Late Show" ...

Fairbanks Will
"The late Douglas Fairbanks senior, famed among his friends as a practical joker...

Peter Lorre & Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Lorre was not noted for his height. Indeed, Alfred Hitchcock once mocked t...

Birthday Girl
One day a young friend of Robert Louis Stevenson's complained of being born on C...

Fake Boobies
"I love the hecklers," Cash Casia once remarked of her comedy career. "There was...

Breakfast with Tutu
"In 1986, I got my first big assignment as a probationary reporter," Elizabeth K...

Yoof Spokesman
British comedian Ali G, famed for his comic antics (suggesting to Body Shop foun...

Nick Fotiu: Practical Joker
A notorious practical joker, New York Rangers forward Nick Fotiu once smuggled a...

Bad Betty Thomas
Owen Wilson grew close to director Betty Thomas on the set of I Spy. "I t...

Henny Youngman: Money
"I've got all the money I'll ever need," Henny Youngman once remarked, "if I die...

Boy George
Ultra-flamboyant 1980s pop icon Boy George was not without his critics. "Boy Geo...

Martha Stewart Living Behin...
One day in 2002, David Letterman reported that Lizzie Grubman, the publicist who...

Tommy Cooper: Marriage
"I was cleaning out the attic the other day with the wife," Tommy Cooper once re...

Frank Keating: Catholic Mafia
"Frank Keating, the former governor of Oklahoma caused a huge controversy this w...

Cheech and Chong: 20 Year R...
"Cheech and Chong [famed for their roles as pot-heads in the slapstick 'Cheech &...

Wesley Clark: Clark Bars
"Yesterday, former governor Wesley Clark announced he was running for president,...

Hillary Clinton: Chinese Ed...
"Hillary Clinton is very upset," Conan O'Brien announced in September 2003, "bec...

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