If comedy were easy, every movie that tried to be funny would actually be funny. But comedy is not easy. On Saturday, in separate events I’m pleased to host at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit ...

Just like Carl Spackler and his imagined victory at the Masters, “Caddyshack” was the surprise cult comedy no one saw coming. The year was 1980. Chevy Chase and Bill Murray were at the peak of their ...

Nearly three decades after its release, "Caddyshack" remains a cult classic garnering fondness and praise for such characters played by Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield. Comedy powerhouses came ...

Actor Michael O'Keefe, who played Danny Noonan, tells behind-the-scenes stories about the making of Caddyshack and explains why he didn’t embrace being “Noonan” until 2007.

“Golf loves a foursome,” writes Chris Nashawaty in the gritty chronicle “Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story” (Flatiron, $26.99). But moviegoers of 1980 hardly rushed to embrace the ...

“Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story” by Chris Nashawaty. Flatiron Books, 294 pages, $26.99. Comedy changed forever in the 1960s and 1970s. The post-vaudevillian pap that most ...

This week, actor Michael O’Keefe — a man well-known to golf fans as Danny Noonan from the hit comedy "Caddyshack" — joins the show, along with PGA Tour caddie Kip Henley. O’Keefe recently caddied a ...

“Golf loves a foursome,” writes Chris Nashawaty in this gritty chronicle of the making of “Caddyshack.” But moviegoers of 1980 hardly rushed to embrace the four comedians who headlined the picture.

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“The book was better.” We’ve all uttered some variation on this theme, driven by disappointment that the story on the screen doesn’t match up with the mental images conjured by a favorite tome. Well, ...