A great recurring character in a series you love becomes an old friend. You learn about their strange quirks and their haunted pasts and root for them every time they face danger.

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian.

Thrust onto Egypt's most powerful throne at the age of nine, King Tut's reign was fiercely debated from the outset.

In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, there is a tragedy in the house next door to Lindiwe Bishop--her neighbor has been burned alive.

John Keats, the romantic poet, wrote the love poem Bright Star for his 18 year-old next door neighbour Fanny Brawne. This is the story of their first love. 

From the most popular routines and the most ingenious physical shtick to the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century, MAKE 'EM LAUGH illuminates who we are as a nation b