Steven Wright, an influential stand-up comic known for his deadpan delivery and offbeat one-liners, visits the Ridgefield Playhouse this Sunday. Wright has twice been nominated for Grammy's in the ...

The debut novel from legendary stand-up comedian Steven Wright, Harold is about the kaleidoscopic mind of an ever-curious 7-year-old boy in the ’60s as he floats through his day; his rollicking inner ...

Comedian Steven Wright is known for his deadpan delivery of ironic one-liners, quirky stories, non sequiturs and paraprosdokians — sentences with an unexpected twist at the end. Like this one: “If at ...

Age is a subjective thing for comedian Steven Wright. Right now, he’s admitting that he has the attention span of a junior high kid. “Don’t you think we’re all different ages (in our minds)?,” he says ...

“I'm just trying to make them laugh,” says Steven Wright. “I don't focus on emotion.” The 68-year-old comedian and actor, who’s built a career on setting the bar for the definition of “deadpan,” has ...

Comedian Steven Wright is the king of brevity. Dry, witty one-liners — “I’d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize,” or casual mention that he “lost a buttonhole” — would crumble in the hands of an upbeat ...

Steven Wright doesn't write jokes. He doesn't have to. For more than 40 years, Wright's comedy - delivered in his distinctive deadpan style - has consisted of droll observations of the incongruous, ...

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Comic Steven Wright can find humor in anything. On a walk near his home in Carlisle, Massachusetts, Wright came upon a Little League baseball team. “I used to play Little League out here,” he said.

The influential stand-up wanted to “pour everything I think about being alive” into the book, which is told from the point of view of a 7-year-old. By Jason Zinoman If there’s one living stand-up ...

Steven Wright is certainly no stranger to Western Massachusetts. First, he’s a Boston native, and he also has spent plenty of time out here, where he could sometimes be spotted watching a Red Sox game ...