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 ...

BOSTON -- Toronto Blue Jays first baseman Chris Colabello showed up at his locker the morning after getting beaned by Steven Wright to find a present the Boston pitcher left for him. "Steven decided ...

DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - The Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office says one person is facing charges after a police ...

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 ...

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.

BOSTON (CBS) -- Steven Wright's incredible journey from minor-league journeyman to Cy Young contender culminated Tuesday with his selection to the American League squad for next Tuesday's MLB All-Star ...

Comedian brings act to Warner Theatre If Henny Youngman was the king of the quick one-liners, then comedian Steven Wright is the master of the bizarre one-liners. For example: “I like to reminisce ...

Wright will be available out of the bullpen prior to making his first start of the regular season, the Boston Globe reports. Wright, the knuckle-baller who is the temporary fill-in for Eduardo ...

At 7 years old, Harold already has some pretty advanced thoughts. Why, for instance, is time measured forward and backward, “but never off to the side”? Harold is the brainchild of Steven Wright, the ...

Ask just about any alternative comic from the last twenty years to name their influences. Ask 100 of them. Put in one of those little word clouds people used to make in 2011. The name you'll see over ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates are taking a flier on knuckleball pitcher Steven Wright. The Pirates signed Wright on Sunday and invited him to big league camp. The right-hander last pitched ...