Veteran comedian Louie Anderson, who won a supporting actor Emmy for playing a version of his own mother in the FX comedy “Baskets,” has died. He was 68. The beloved stand-up comic died Friday ...

Louie Anderson, an Emmy winner whose career spanned ... was so impressed that he hired the young comic as a writer. Anderson was soon basking in his own spotlight on comedy stages all over the ...

Louie,’” he told The St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 2002. “Because comics call that a ‘shot’ on ‘The Tonight Show.’ And that was huge for me.” Mr. Anderson went from earning $500 a ...

Comic Louie Anderson has had a hugely successful stand-up career for the past 30 years, but he admits he wasn't a very good actor early on. "I didn't know who I was or how to do it," he tells ...

Comic Louie Anderson is helping us kick off a new summer series we call LEAVE 'EM LAUGHING. And as Lee Cowan discovered, one of the keys to Anderson's success is his ability to laugh at himself ...

Louie Anderson’s early jobs included counseling troubled children. He changed course after winning a 1981 Midwest comedy competition, where he was spotted by veteran comic Henny Youngman ...

He reveled at Anderson's ability to speak for the common man. "Louie humanized people who can ... in-law contributed to the family," she said. Comics in the audience included club headliners ...

Veteran comedian Louie Anderson, who won a supporting actor Emmy for playing a version of his own mother in the FX comedy "Baskets," has died. He was 68. The beloved stand-up comic died Friday ...

By Chris Koseluk Louie Anderson, the big-hearted everyman who rose to fame as a stand-up comic, then channeled the spirit of his late mother for his Emmy-winning turn as Christine Baskets on the ...