Mel Blanc: The Man of 1,000 Voices Who Woke Up as Bugs Bunny
In early 1961, a man lay in a UCLA hospital bed in a coma so deep he wouldn't respond to his own name. Then a doctor leaned in and asked, "How are you feeling today, Bugs Bunny?" The reply came back: ...
23 Juni 22min
Cantinflas: The Comedian Who Weaponized Nonsense Against the Elite
Charlie Chaplin called him the best comedian alive. Diego Rivera painted him into a national mural beside the Virgin of Guadalupe. He became the highest-paid actor in the world. Yet he invented a mean...
23 Juni 19min
Charles Schulz: How Rejection and Heartbreak Built Peanuts
A shy Midwestern kid has his art rejected by his own high school yearbook. As a soldier, he aims his machine gun at the enemy and realizes he forgot to load it. He proposes to the love of his life and...
23 Juni 20min
Chelsea Handler: From DUI Class to Late-Night Disruptor and Activist
How does a woman who built a TV empire on crude sex jokes and unapologetic drinking stories end up facing down geopolitical protests at her own comedy shows? The contradiction at the heart of Chelsea ...
23 Juni 18min
Conrad Hilton: How Hourly Hotel Beds Built a Global Empire
In 1919, a young man walked into a dusty Texas boomtown carrying $40,000 to buy a bank. The deal collapsed. So he bought a packed 40-room hotel instead and began renting beds in grueling eight-hour sh...
23 Juni 19min
Curtis Mayfield: The Paralyzed Genius Who Sang Lying Down
In a mid-1990s studio, a man recorded an entire album lying flat on his back, paralyzed from the neck down, using gravity alone to press air from his lungs and force out his vocals one agonizing line ...
23 Juni 20min
Damon Wayans: The Comic Who Got Fired From SNL on Purpose
In 1985, a featured player on Saturday Night Live deliberately sabotaged a live sketch to get himself fired, throwing away the most coveted stage in comedy. That reckless act of creative defiance tell...
23 Juni 20min
Don Rickles: How a Professional Bully Became Hollywood's Kindest Man
When most men die, friends share gentle memories. When Don Rickles died, the biggest stars in the world mourned a man who had spent 60 years ruthlessly insulting them to their faces, yet called him th...
23 Juni 19min
