Peter Sellers: The Comic Genius Who Had No Self
On The Muppet Show, Kermit told his guest to just relax and be himself. The most famous comedic actor on the planet replied, deadpan, that this would be impossible: there was no him, no self at all. H...
23 Jun 22min
Tommy Chong: The Sharp Business Mind Behind the Stoner Mask
You think you know Tommy Chong: the giggling, perpetually fried hippie of Cheech and Chong fame. But what if that lovable caricature was the most brilliant disguise in entertainment history, a charact...
23 Jun 20min
Lafayette: The Hero of Two Worlds Who Lost Everything for Liberty
Picture a 19-year-old billionaire's heir who reads a manifesto, gets radicalized by ideals of liberty, defies his own king, and secretly buys a ship to fight in a foreign war he has no stake in. It so...
23 Jun 17min
Four Lives, One Name: Inside a Wikipedia Disambiguation Page
You type a name into a search bar expecting one tidy biography. Instead you stumble into a digital room where four completely different lives stand shoulder to shoulder, sharing nothing but the same n...
23 Jun 15min
Garry Trudeau: The Doonesbury Genius Hiding in Plain Sight
He shaped American political thought for over 50 years, won a Pulitzer, created hit TV shows, and earned an Oscar nomination. Yet in a 1971 game-show appearance, only one panelist could even guess his...
23 Jun 20min
Jackie Gleason: The Great One's Heartbreak Behind How Sweet It Is
A man who couldn't read a single note of music built a mood-music empire that held the Billboard top 10 for 153 weeks. A kid left alone with 36 cents became the blueprint for the American sitcom dad. ...
23 Jun 19min
Eugene O'Neill: The Tortured Genius Who Invented Modern American Theater
Born in a Times Square hotel room and dead in a Boston one, Eugene O'Neill whispered I knew it, I knew it as the eerie symmetry of his life closed. He was the only playwright to win four Pulitzers plu...
23 Jun 20min
Lou Costello: The Laughter and Devastating Grief Behind Who's on First
The man behind Who's on First helped sell 85 million dollars in war bonds in 35 days, yet refused to speak to his comedy partner off-camera for months. Hours after an unimaginable family tragedy, he s...
23 Jun 12min
