The Real Brothers Grimm: Poverty, Politics, and Dark Tales
In the original, unedited Snow White, the Evil Queen is the heroine's biological mother, she demands her daughter's lungs and liver to eat, and she is forced to dance to death in red-hot iron shoes. T...
23 Jun 21min
Steve Allen: The Man Who Invented Late Night TV
In 1951, a last-minute guest host poured boiling water into Arthur Godfrey's prized ukulele on live television and the audience lost their minds. The man holding that soup-filled instrument was Steve ...
23 Jun 20min
Steve Coogan: Escaping Alan Partridge and Fighting the Tabloids
Steve Coogan invented a character so culturally massive that the public confused the creation for the man. For years, Alan Partridge was an albatross around his neck. This is the story of how Coogan e...
23 Jun 19min
Steve Harvey: From Living in a Car to a Media Empire
In December 2015, Steve Harvey crowned the wrong winner at Miss Universe in front of hundreds of millions of viewers, a career-ending catastrophe for almost anyone else. For him, it was just another c...
23 Jun 20min
Steve Martin: The Philosopher Who Reinvented Comedy
At the absolute peak of his fame in 1981, selling out stadiums in a white three-piece suit, Steve Martin simply walked away from stand-up. No farewell tour, no announcement. It was one of the most abr...
23 Jun 17min
Steve-O: Surviving Jackass, Addiction, and Reinvention
His resume includes stapling his own scrotum to his leg, smuggling drugs in a swallowed condom, and shattering his face in a balcony stunt. Yet the same man is now a sober, calm animal-rights advocate...
23 Jun 21min
Stewart Lee: The Comedian Who Built a Career by Alienating His Audience
Imagine landing a coveted BBC television slot and then writing an anonymous review tearing your own performance to shreds, or printing a critic's brutal insult in giant letters on your promotional pos...
23 Jun 20min
Susanna Wesley: The Mother Who Built the Blueprint for Methodism
How do you become known as the mother of a world-changing religious movement without ever preaching a sermon, founding a church, or publishing a single book in your lifetime? Susanna Wesley managed ex...
23 Jun 21min
