Dana Gould Essentials

Since the '80s, Dana Gould has been the kind of comic who loves to find laughs from the dark side of things—whether he's milking the macabre for all it's worth with fantasies about Hitler and Charles Manson as babies, or just joking about everyday evils like racism. The strange thing is that the darker he goes, the funnier he gets. Gould's world is a place where nothing is sacred and everything is fair game for gag fodder, be it his own family's foibles ("Dad Was a Bartender"), or the personal shortcomings of one of our most brilliant minds ("Stephen Hawking – The Beatles of Scientists").