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Actor and comedian Dom DeLuise, whose big screen classics included “The Cannonball Run,” “Spaceballs” and “History of the World Part I,” died on Monday night at a Los Angeles hospital, Access Hollywood has confirmed. He was 75.

What do you do when you're NASA and comedian Stephen Colbert wins your contest to name the new wing for the International Space Station?

Fox is finalizing a deal with actress-comedian Wanda Sykes for a Saturday late-night show.

If change can come to the White House, then change can come to late night," comedian George Lopez told The Hollywood Reporter about his new TBS talk-show.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman have split for a second time, Us Weekly reported.

And according to the mag, the reunited comedians - who first broke up in July 2008 after five years of dating and heated up again last fall - likely won't be getting back together.

Comedian D.L. Hughley was pummeled by critics when his weekend talk show debuted on CNN last fall. "What the hell was CNN thinking?" a columnist for AdAge asked after watching the first episode. It remains unclear what was running through the minds of CNN execs when they signed him up for the spectacularly unfunny program featuring painfully awkward interviews. But the network may have come to its senses or at least decided to cut its losses. A source tells us that CNN has decided to cancel the show due to "budgetary constraints."

Doctors advised Robin Williams to take a week off from the 80-city tour of his one-man comedy show after the comedian experienced shortness of breath, according to his publicist.

Chris Rock is getting his writing career crack-a-lackin'.

The funnyman is putting pen to paper for the second time in his career for a book of "comedic observations" due in...