A public radio tradition updated this year with NPR host Lisa Simeone. Master comedian Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of Dickens' holiday classic, with a special performing edition ...

Comedian Jonathan Winters, whose improvisational style inspired Robin Williams, Jim Carrey and many others, has died at age 87. Winters passed away last night at his home in Montecito of natural ...

LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Winters, one of the great comedians of the 20th century, died Thursday night. He was 87. Winters, who had been in declining health, died at his longtime home in Los Angeles, ...

For decades, Jonathan Winters entertained audiences on stage, on screen and as a voice-over artist. Legendary are his improvisational humor, voice character abilities and improv. He is known for his ...

An uncanny mimic and quick-change improviser, Jonathan Winters is one of those great performers who sweep you along in a flow of natural lunacy, whether by diving into his characters or dropping ...

HIS FACE has the quivering consistency of unrestrained Jell-O. Great white teeth march across his cavernous mouth like tombstones across a cave entrance. His stumpy body looks as if a grand piano had ...

Elwood P. Suggins once said, “I was the fire chief awhile back until they found out who was setting the fires.” Elwood was the alter ego of improvisational comic Jonathan Winters, a man with many ...

Jonathan Winters was an American artist and comedian, dubbed the “Pioneer of Improvisational Comedy.” Winters acted on stage and in films and television, including Stanley Kramer’s It’s A Mad, Mad, ...

Throughout a 56-year career that included countless appearances on late-night TV, a starring role among the all-stars of “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” and close to a dozen Grammy-nominated comedy ...