LOS ANGELES, March 1 (UPI) -- U.S. actor Eddie Murphy will play Richard Pryor in a new movie about the late cutting-edge stand-up comic, industry sources say.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Comedian Rudy Ray Moore has died at the age of 81 in Akron, Ohio, of apparent complications due to diabetes, his record label said.

NEW YORK, March 18 (UPI) -- The New York Friars Club has announced plans to roast -- or mercilessly mock -- Matt Lauer, star of the "Today" show, at an upcoming ceremony.

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LOS ANGELES, April 18 (UPI) -- Standup comic David Chappelle kept the jokes coming nonstop at the Laugh Factory for six hours and seven minutes, a record at the Los Angeles comedy club. Chappelle's unannounced Sunday night-Monday morning gig broke the club record set April 10 by Dane C

NEW YORK, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- My Chemical Romance, Justin Timberlake and Gnarls Barkley picked up top awards in New York-based Blender magazine's 2006 Readers' Poll.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Actor Mike Evans, who played the affable Lionel on "The Jeffersons," has died at the age of 57 after a long battle with throat cancer in Los Angeles. Evans was best known for his role as Lionel Jefferson on "All In The Family" and in the first three seaso

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