Richard Jeni has been performing stand-up comedy for more than 20 years. And like a veteran rock star, he feels obligated to present plenty of his greatest hits--or should we say, greatest bits ...

Richard Jeni’s final gig was a corporate dinner in Las Vegas for debit-card vendors -- it was hardly a glamorous booking, but Jeni, a notorious perfectionist, had prepared new material anyway.

‘THIS IS my biggest gig since the day my son was born,” says Richard Jeni from L. A. before flying East to play Caesars on the weekend. “Of course, I don’t have a son. &#822… ...

I know that Richard will make God laugh; I just wish that God would have allowed Richard to make us laugh down here a bit longer. Richard Jeni died March 10 in an apparent suicide in West ...

It’s rare when an opening comedy act causes more of a ripple than the headliner that everyone came to see. But Len Austrevich wasn’t just any warmup working with superior talent Richard Jeni ...

Growing up in the classic, tough Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Richard Jeni was surrounded by scenes that would make good material for a comedy routine. In his early teens, Jeni hung out on ...

Stand-up comedian and actor Richard Jeni, a regular on late-night U.S. television, killed himself but was not despondent about his career despite suffering from mental illness, his family said on ...

WEST HOLLYWOOD – Richard Jeni, a stand-up comedian who played to sold-out crowds, was a regular on the “The Tonight Show” and appeared in movies, died of a gunshot wound in an apparent ...