I first heard Steven Wright’s I Have a Pony when I was in high school. It was a little more than 10 years after the classic comedy album’s 1985 release, but it was as if the jokes existed in this ...

Wright in 1980, the year he joined Radio 1 - Carol Norman/Shutterstock The wave of affection for the late Steve Wright is long overdue – for a few years, he had suffered under the yoke of familiarity ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Comedy legend Steven Wright, known for observational humor, talks about writing his novel "Harold," which is told from the perspective of a third grader over the course of one December day in the ...

A new era is born.

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 ...