Now deadpan comedian Steven Wright actually has something to be depressed about. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, native had to postpone his show at The Paramount in Huntington, scheduled for Friday ...

Comedian Steven Wright is known for his deadpan delivery of ironic one-liners, quirky stories, non sequiturs and paraprosdokians — sentences with an unexpected twist at the end. Like this one: “If at ...

Steven Wright doesn't write jokes. He doesn't have to. For more than 40 years, Wright's comedy - delivered in his distinctive deadpan style - has consisted of droll observations of the incongruous, ...

For a guy who usually looks so mournful, Steven Wright has been making a lot of people laugh for 40 years. A standup comic, Wright has an almost patented delivery: Deadpan, almost dead, his ...

“I'm just trying to make them laugh,” says Steven Wright. “I don't focus on emotion.” The 68-year-old comedian and actor, who’s built a career on setting the bar for the definition of “deadpan,” has ...

Age is a subjective thing for comedian Steven Wright. Right now, he’s admitting that he has the attention span of a junior high kid. “Don’t you think we’re all different ages (in our minds)?,” he says ...

Steven Wright, an influential stand-up comic known for his deadpan delivery and offbeat one-liners, visits the Ridgefield Playhouse this Sunday. Wright has twice been nominated for Grammy's in the ...

Comedian Steven Wright is the king of brevity. Dry, witty one-liners — “I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize,” or casual mention that he “lost a buttonhole” — would crumble in the hands of an upbeat ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Comedian and actor Steven Wright joins John ...

The influential stand-up wanted to “pour everything I think about being alive” into the book, which is told from the point of view of a 7-year-old. By Jason Zinoman If there’s one living stand-up ...