Leos Janacek: The Composer Who Peaked in His Seventies
We're conditioned to believe musical genius burns bright and early, like Mozart. Leos Janacek shatters that timeline completely. He didn't achieve true greatness until his sixties and composed his und...
23 Juni 20min
Jay Leno: The $32 Million Man Who Never Spent a Dime
Imagine earning a recorded $32 million a year and refusing to spend a single dollar of it, banking every network television check while living entirely off your weekend stand-up income. That's the biz...
23 Juni 18min
Janeane Garofalo: The Alt-Comedy Pioneer Who Refused to Conform
In 1991 she got married in Vegas as an ironic anti-establishment joke, never filed the paperwork, and discovered two decades later it was completely legally binding. That accidental 20-year marriage i...
23 Juni 15min
Jim Gaffigan: From Falling Asleep at His Desk to the Pope
Picture a Georgetown finance grad so burnt out in his advertising job that his boss has to wake him up just to fire him. Now picture that same man decades later performing stand-up for Pope Francis an...
23 Juni 18min
Jimmy Kimmel: From The Man Show to a Free Speech Crisis
In 1999 he was jumping on trampolines with beer-toting models on The Man Show. Twenty-five years later he triggered an unprecedented free speech crisis involving the FCC, major corporate conglomerates...
23 Juni 19min
Joe Hill: The Labor Martyr the Government Couldn't Bury
In 1917 the U.S. Post Office seized a tiny envelope for its "subversive potential." Inside wasn't a bomb or a manifesto, just two ounces of human ash, which sat hidden in the National Archives for 70 ...
23 Juni 20min
Joan Rivers: How She Turned Insecurity Into a Weapon
Banned from television by her most famous mentor, widowed by suicide, her career in free fall, Joan Rivers sat alone with a gun in her lap, contemplating ending it all, until her pet Yorkie jumped up ...
23 Juni 17min
Joey Bishop: The Hidden Architect of the Rat Pack
He wrote the jokes and the supposedly spontaneous banter for Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Sammy Davis Jr., guest-hosted The Tonight Show over 175 times, and starred in his own hit series, yet he's ...
23 Juni 18min
