Shawn Levy

Shawn Levy is an author and the former film critic of The Oregonian and KGW-TV. His latest book, In On the Joke: The Original Queens of Standup Comedy, is available April 5 from Doubleday.

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The Trailblazing Women Who Changed the Face of Comedy

In October 1983, the Friars Club, that bastion of American comedy royalty, held a roast of comic legend Sid Caesar. Some 2,000 men laughed appreciatively, and among them was not one single woman. Mixed into...

By Shawn Levy
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