You Can Take the Girl Out of New York…. By Leighann Lord When I was a junior in high school, I got an opportunity to do a summer program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. It...

By Leighann Lord Everyone said I should read Steve Martin’s book, Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life. And by everyone I mean comedians I love and respect. They said they’d gotten a lot out of it and...

By Leighann Lord I’m not a buxom babe and I’m at peace with that. I wasn’t always. Puberty was a trial. Despite reading Judy Blume’s Are You There God, It’s Me, Margaret and faithfully executing its famous...

Comedian Roy Wood, Jr. defends R&B singer Fantasia and rambles about the sides of celebrity suicide that many people don’t think about.

By Leighann Lord There are almost no words to describe what it felt like to watch my comedy idol, Franklyn Ajaye, take the stage Sunday night at the Laugh Lounge in New York City. I’ve been a...