Many stand-up comedians who rise to household-name popularity tend to get their name out through yearly (or at least semi-regular) album releases, TV specials, books and whatever else might help ...

One comedy show is traveling the country in search of the best joke writer in every city. One Liner Madness puts comics head-to-head in a bracket-style, single-elimination, one-liner joke contest.

Rodney Dangerfield used to claim that, all his life, he never got any respect at all. Well, I guess you can call us the exception, because the countless one-liners that the stand-up icon conceived are ...