Why the richest comedian in history keeps working.

A look at the life and career of Richard Pryor as he reached the end.

Carlin on his start, his work, and his addictions.

The rise and fall, and rise and fall, of a legend.

Searching for Dave Chappelle ten years after he left his show.

A young Allen writes jokes for supper club comedians, decides he will never succeed as a performer, does, idolizes and is snubbed by Mort Sahl, and develops the comic persona which will make him a star.

On Sarah Silverman’s stand-up style.

A profile of Larry David, with a focus on his years as a struggling stand-up.

A profile of the reclusive Garry Shandling.

She’s TV’s loudmouth Domestic Goddess, desecrater of our national anthem and most of our notions of good taste. And she has a secret. Meet Baby, Cindy, Susan, Nobody, Joey, Heather and the rest: An adventure in Multiple Personality Disorder.

Remembering the unsparing Patrice O’Neal.

Outtakes from a Rolling Stone profile.

On the desolate career of Todd Marinovich, who was engineered from birth to be an NFL quarterback and ended up a junkie.

A detailed account of Plimpton’s 5-play tenure as quarterback of the Detroit Lions.

Jared Lorenzen was a star quarterback in college. He won a Super Bowl. And just like the author, he has spent his entire life fighting, and losing, a battle with his weight.

The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.

A profile of Eli Manning—brother of Peyton, son of Archie, future Super Bowl MVP—published shortly after his first NFL start.

Catching up with Jake Plummer, who turned down a $5 million contract and left the NFL while still in his prime to concentrate on playing handball.

A profile of Tim Tebow as he dealt with NFL skeptics on the eve of his final college season.

Over a scotch a few months after his underdog Jets won Super Bowl III, a 26-year-old Joe Namath told Jimmy Breslin what he’d done the night before the game: “I went out and got a bottle and grabbed this girl.”

Love, Margaret Thatcher and a broken penis.

The case of the disappearing penis.

How Steve Warshak made millions selling “natural male enhancement” and lost it all.

Meet the medical men who made John Bobbitt whole.

In 1967, Dr. John Money transformed a baby boy into a baby girl. For decades, he touted the case as a success. It wasn’t.

A look at the foreskin restoration movement.

The story of soldiers who served their country and paid a horrible price.

A story of diamonds, thieves, and the Balkans.

The most prolific bank robber in Texas history.

Gerald Blanchard, the world’s most ingenious thief, made his first swipe at age six. And he didn’t stop, robbing banks and stealing jewels around the world until a pair of obsessed Winnipeg cops took his case.

The motley gang of L.A. teens that cat-burgled celebrities, sometimes repeatedly, in search of designer clothes, jewelry, and something to do. The story that became The Bling Ring.

After two New Jersey homes were robbed of their silver—only their silver—in the same night, the local police got a call from a detective in Greenwich, Connecticut. “I know the guy who’s doing your burglaries.”

As Texas governor and attorney general, respectively, George W. Bush and Alberto Gonzales should have given each capital case careful consideration. The evidence suggests they did not.

Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted and sentenced to die for killing his two children, a crime he almost certainly did not commit.

What it’s like to serve on a jury in a capital case.

On an convict too young to vote but old enough to be strapped to a chair.

John Paul Stevens, the former Supreme Court Justice, reviews David Garland’s Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition and explains why he did a 180 on the death penalty

On the hanging of James Murphy, murderer.