Martin Short: Turning a Lifetime of Grief Into Relentless Joy
A reluctant song-and-dance man with a social work degree and a paralyzing fear of improv ends up surrounded by future legends in a Toronto production of Godspell. Decades later, terrified of the freef...
23 Jun 11min
Mary Leakey: The Expelled Rebel Who Rewrote Human Evolution
Told by Oxford that applying would be a waste of time, expelled twice (once for blowing up a chemistry lab), this unteachable girl grew up to brush volcanic ash from 3.6-million-year-old footprints of...
23 Jun 18min
Maya Rudolph: From a Mother's Lullaby to Comedy Royalty
As a toddler, a number-one love song was playing on the radio with her name sung into the fade-out. A few generations back on the same family tree, an ancestor born into slavery dragged his enslaver's...
23 Jun 13min
Mel Brooks: How a Bullied Brooklyn Kid Weaponized Comedy
Picture a 99-year-old EGOT winner and comedy god. Now erase that and picture a small, sickly, bullied kid in 1920s Brooklyn running for his life down the street to avoid a beating. He learned to cloth...
23 Jun 20min
Michael McIntyre: From an Audience of One to Arena Records
Picture arena-level pop stardom: crashing ticket systems, tens of millions per tour. Now picture a man in a suit walking onto a bare stage to talk about the contents of his kitchen drawers, who by 201...
23 Jun 20min
Mike Myers: From Wayne's World to Canada's Elbows Up Rallying Cry
A comedian who built a global empire with oversized fake teeth, "yeah baby," and a flatulent green ogre somehow became the focal point of two of North America's most charged moments, including the fac...
23 Jun 19min
Mike Nichols: The Refugee Who Made Isolation a Superpower
April 1939: a seven-year-old boy walks up the gangplank of a transatlantic ship fleeing Nazi Germany. He speaks no English and, after a botched vaccine reaction, has no hair and no eyebrows. Stripped ...
23 Jun 21min
Roger Williams: The Stubborn Rebel Who Built American Liberty
In 1860, Providence residents dug for their founder's grave and found no skeleton, only a massive apple tree root grown into the exact shape of a human body, curving at the spine, splitting at the hip...
23 Jun 20min
