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Just weeks after 18-year-old daughter Chelsea revealed new details about her home life with the famed comedian, Rosie O'Donnell is offering her own insight into her broken relationship with her adopted daughter.  During a stand-up performance at New York City's Gotham Comedy Club on Saturday, O'Donnell wore her heart on her sleeve as she took a few minutes to reflect on her family's recent notoriety, which the star claims was a long time in the making.  "I love all of my kids. My daughter has been in the news. It's been in the news, but it's not news to the family. It's been a decade long," Rosie said during her performance. "As Mom, my wish is for love and peace and...

Rosie O'Donnell is opening up about her family's difficult time.

During a show at Gotham Comedy Club in New York City on Saturday night, the comedian, 53, discussed her issues with her daughter Chelsea, 18, as well as her own struggle with depression.

"I love all of my kids. My daughter has been in the news. It's been in the news, but it's not news to the family," O'Donnell said, according to Entertainment Tonight. "It's been a decade long. As mom, my wish is for love and peace and wait until it's done."

"Chelsea just turned 18. For adopted children 18 is a magic number,...

In her new HBO standup special, Rosie O’Donnell wears her heart on her sleeve -- at times almost literally, as she jokes about falling in love with now estranged wife, Michelle Rounds, and their emotional ups and downs.

News: Rosie O'Donnell Is Leaving 'The View' & Splitting from Wife

Rosie O’Donnell: A Heartfelt Stand Up, which debuts this Saturday, Feb. 14 on HBO, is a hybrid of both confession and comedy as the actress not only details trials of her personal life but also her 2012 heart attack.

Watch: Rosie O'Donnell Explains Why She's Leaving 'The View'

Last week, O’Donnell announced that she was leaving The View to focus on her health. The stress of working on the show as well as raising five kids, including a young baby, has been compounded by the fact that she and Rounds separated this past November -- which was also recently revealed. “I'm having...

New Yorkers come together in need, and TV stars from the area are banding together to aid the struiggling budget of one popular NYC elementary school and make up the losses. Ps 11 in Chelsea will benefit from the talents of Artie Lange, Susie Essman, Dave Attell, W. Kamau Bell, Judy Gold and Gilbert Gottfried as they headline Gotham Comedy Club in Chelsea to combat the City School Budget this Tuesday, February 12 at 6:45pm Background Ps 11 in Chelsea will present .Comedy For A Cause,. at Gotham Comedy Club to raise much-needed funds for the beloved neighborhood school facing deep budget cuts. Featuring performances by Dave Attell (Insomniac, SNL, The Daily Show), Susie Essman (Curb Your Enthusiasm), Judy Gold...

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It's crazy to read a book like Yael Kohen's We Killed and know that people still make statements like "Women aren't funny." The newly released oral history of women in comedy over the last 50 years is a reminder that not only are women hilarious, but they are smart, persistent and unwilling to back down when faced with the sexism and adversity they've been dealt whether it's been in comedy clubs, writing rooms or late night TV shows.

Comedy is not just entertainment: It has the power to enlighten and educate, no matter how subtle it might be presented. What you'll get from We Killed is a sense of how progressive women have proven to be, from the pioneers like Phyllis Diller and Elaine May to the alternative comics of the '90s like Janeane Garofalo up through today's boundary-smashing Sarah Silverman, for whom no topic is untouchable.

Judd Apatow was defined by the comedy of his generation and he's turned around and used that to define the comedy of the next generation. This is not just a list of things Judd has done in the past, but it's also a chronicling of his rise to power. Here is the life of a comedy nerd made good - made very, very good.

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Born in Flushing, New York, to real estate developer Maury Apatow and Tami Shad, who divorced when he was 12. He also has an older brother Robert and a younger sister Mia. He lived with his dad most of the time and grew up watching shows like Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin, The Tonight Show, Late Night with David Letterman, etc. "I was watching TV until about 3-3:30 to 1:30 in the morning for years." He spent a lot of time alone in his room, but lest you think that's sad,...

After more than 30 years in the business, Jim Carrey isn't done surprising people. When the wildly talented comedian first caught Hollywood's attention in the early 1990s on "In Living Color," he blew audiences away with his gravity-defying physicality and willingness to go anywhere comedy required, be it playing a pyromaniac fire marshal or a buff female bodybuilder. He went on to become one of the biggest box office stars in the world, with a string of crowd-pleasing hits executed from often-flimsy premises: a pet detective, a guy who dons a mask and morphs into a monster of pure id, a man who literally cannot tell a lie. And when Carrey had the audacity to go after more-dramatic roles, he didn't listen to the naysayers—who obviously hadn't caught his subtle work as an alcoholic in the 1992 TV movie "Doing Time on Maple Drive." If thoughtful performances in "The Truman Show...