Christian Bale chose an unlikely 1997 comedy starring Chris Farley as his favorite film, and it highlights how there's no ...

Norm Peterson the "Cheers" character may have seemed as Bostonian as the Red Sox and the Freedom Trail, but the man who ...

Fans mourned the passing of Wendt, who led a gregarious band of Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks superfans on the show featuring ...

Editorial written by Chicago Tribune Board. Anyone who craved a life of sitcom fame had not spent time with George Wendt, a man who could not walk into a restaurant or take a stroll in the fresh air ...

George Wendt, the actor and comedian who cut his teeth at Chicago’s improvisational comedy troupe Second City before finding fame as part of the ensemble cast of the beloved 1980s NBC sitcom ...

So does Joe Mantegna. And Chris Farley. But while we’re praising what you might call the Mike Ditka school of Chicago comedy (Da Bears), let’s agree that Wendt was the gentle leader of that ...

We're a tribe, we’re a group, and we have to look out for each other.” Al Levine/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Chris Farley as Beverly Gelfand, Adam Sandler as Hank Gelfand during a sketch on ...

Lorne Michaels biographer Susan Morrison is recalling the ways in which the Saturday Night Live boss tried to help Chris Farley kick his drug addiction before the beloved comedian died of a ...

The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live,” recently appeared on Dax Shepard’s “Armchair Expert” podcast and explained how Lorne Michaels handled Chris Farley’s struggles with drugs and a ...

We’re a tribe, we’re a group, and we have to look out for each other.” “So by the time Chris Farley comes along, you know, 10 years later or whatever, from the beginning he clearly had ...