Garry Shandling: The Comedy Genius Who Funded a Cure
After a near-fatal 1976 car crash, a voice asked Garry Shandling whether he wanted to continue his life. His instinctive yes set the trajectory for modern television. He emerged with the clarity to us...
23 Jun 20min
Gary Larson: The Far Side Genius Who Walked Away
His work ran in 1,900 newspapers and sold over 45 million books, yet he refused to be photographed and abruptly vanished at the peak of his career at just 44. Gary Larson walked away from an empire fo...
23 Jun 22min
George Meade: The Reluctant General Who Won Gettysburg
At 3 a.m. on June 28, 1863, a general woke convinced his enemies had finally won and he was about to be arrested. Instead, George Meade was handed command of the entire Army of the Potomac, with three...
23 Jun 23min
George Burns: 100 Years of Reinvention in Show Business
He sang in brothels for pennies during the vaudeville era and, decades later, posed on the cover of Penthouse and won his first Oscar at 80. George Burns lived three distinct lifetimes in a single bod...
23 Jun 19min
George Whitefield: The First Celebrity Preacher's Dark Bargain
Standing on a wooden platform with no microphone, one man could make his voice reach 30,000 people with crystal clarity, and reduce hardened colonists to tears simply by pronouncing the word Mesopotam...
23 Jun 21min
Gilda Radner: The Private Pain Behind SNL's First Star
She made millions laugh every week as Roseanne Roseannadanna and Emily Litella, yet behind the kinetic comedy was a woman shaped by childhood eating disorders, the slow loss of her father, and a devas...
23 Jun 22min
Greg Davies: 13 Years Teaching Before Taskmaster Fame
Picture a six-foot-eight drama teacher spending 13 years wrangling hormonal teenagers in suburban English classrooms, then channeling all that exhaustion into becoming one of Britain's most intimidati...
23 Jun 17min
Greg Giraldo: The Harvard Lawyer Who Chose Comedy
He scored in the 99th percentile on the LSAT, sailed through Harvard Law, and landed a coveted job at an elite New York firm, then walked away to perform stand-up in dive bars with his pants duct-tape...
23 Jun 22min
