Many stand-up comedians who rise to household-name popularity tend to get their name out through yearly (or at least semi-regular) album releases, TV specials, books and whatever else might help ...

I first heard Steven Wright’s I Have a Pony when I was in high school. It was a little more than 10 years after the classic comedy album’s 1985 release, but it was as if the jokes existed in this ...

Steven Wright likes to keep his comedy short but sweet. And plenty weird. Throughout his 30-year career In the early 1980s, the legendary comedian has condensed his quips into curt absurdist punchline ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Comic Steven Wright can find humor in anything. On a walk near his home in Carlisle, Massachusetts, Wright came upon a Little League baseball team. “I used to play Little League out here,” he said.

Steven Wright is certainly no stranger to Western Massachusetts. First, he’s a Boston native, and he also has spent plenty of time out here, where he could sometimes be spotted watching a Red Sox game ...

Comedian and Academy Award winner Steven Wright will return to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts (9501 Skokie Blvd) in Skokie on March 26. Wright’s comedy style is known for his deadpan ...

Can you imagine comedian Steven Wright on an exercise bike? "I've been doing stand-up for 40 years, so I have a routine I go through to prepare for the show," the famously low-key Wright told the ...

An Oscar-winning, Emmy and Grammy-nominated comic whose style of deadpan comedy has earned him a decades-long career will soon head to Sarasota. Steven Wright will visit Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall ...