White, a dancer and comedian who crossed over from black nightclubs and theaters to bring his hard-luck humor to Las Vegas, died Tuesday in Brigantine, N.J., at age 74. White died of a heart attack at ...

Welcome to the 2012 OC Weekly holiday theater preview, the timing of which is weird on two fronts: Most of these shows wrap up this weekend, which doesn't give interested parties a whole lot of time ...

Slappy White, one of the black stand-up comedians who blazed a trail out of the “chitlin’ circuit” to perform before predominantly white audiences in the 1950s, died on Tuesday at his home in ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Slappy White (born Melvin White, September 20, 1921, Baltimore, MD, died November 7, 1995, Brigantine, NJ) was an American comedian and actor. He worked with ...