"Phill Jupitus and Lenny Henry and has appeared on numerous TV comedy shows. He was first stand-up comedian to act as warm-up for a music show ""The White Room"". He has written for Harry Enfield, Paul O'Grady, Gina Yashere and Jasper Carrott, and was a writer for both ""The 11 O'Clock Show"" and ""The Big Breakfast"" as well as its replacement R.I.S.E. He also has a popular fortnightly column in the local ""Bishop's Stortford Observer"", near his residence, for which he was shortlisted as Columnist of the Year in the 2008 EDF Media Awards. Mann is a regular guest on"
"Harry Enfield Henry Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director. He is known in particular for his television work, including ""Harry Enfield's Television Programme"" and ""Harry & Paul"", and for the creation and portrayal of comedy characters such as Kevin the Teenager and Loadsamoney. Born in Horsham, Sussex, he is the oldest of three children, the son of English television, radio and newspaper journalist and presenter Edward Enfield. He has two sisters. He was educated at the independent Arundale School in Pulborough, Dorset House School, Worth School, Collyer's Sixth Form College (all in"
"Jackie Gleason John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor, writer, composer and conductor. Developing a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his bus driver Ralph Kramden character in the television series ""The Honeymooners"". By filming the episodes with Electronicams, Gleason was later able to release the series in syndication, which increased its popularity over the years with new audiences. He also developed ""The Jackie Gleason Show,"" which maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s through 1970. After originating in"
"Harry Enfield's Television Programme Harry Enfield and Chums (also called Harry Enfield's Television Programme) is a British sketch show starring Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. It first broadcast on BBC Two in 1990 in the 9 pm slot on Thursday nights which became the traditional time for alternative comedy on television. Enfield was already an established name due to his 'Loadsamoney' character (which featured in a few entertainment programmes in the late 1980s), but the series gave greater presence to his frequent collaborators Paul Whitehouse and Kathy Burke – so much so that, in 1994, the show was retitled Harry"
"to the left of the mausoleum, next to her husband, Sol Lerner. 1949–1959 1960–1986 Jackie Gleason John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor, writer, composer and conductor. Developing a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his bus driver Ralph Kramden character in the television series ""The Honeymooners"". By filming the episodes with Electronicams, Gleason was later able to release the series in syndication, which increased its popularity over the years with new audiences. He also developed ""The Jackie"
"Ernie Kovacs Ernest Edward ""Ernie"" Kovacs (January 23, 1919 – January 13, 1962) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Kovacs' visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his death. Many individuals and shows, such as Johnny Carson, David Letterman, ""Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"", ""Saturday Night Live"", ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"", Jim Henson, ""Max Headroom"", Chevy Chase, Conan O’Brien, ""Jimmy Kimmel, Captain Kangaroo"", ""Sesame Street"", ""The Electric Company"", Pee-wee's Playhouse, The Muppet Show, Dave Garroway, Andy Kaufman, You Can't Do That on Television, Uncle Floyd, and many others have credited Kovacs as"
"Lawrence Mooney Lawrence Mooney (born 22 April 1965) is an Australian comedian, actor, writer, television and radio personality and host. Mooney was born in Melbourne and has held various jobs including a cleaner, salesman, furniture polisher and collecting golf balls at a driving range, before becoming a stand-up comic. He hosted the drive time show on Melbourne Talk Radio. He has also been a fill-in host and guest on MTR's Steve Vizard Show and 774 ABC Melbourne and 3AW. As at 2016, he regularly appears on the Triple M Network impersonating Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull with weekly spots on the"
"Kevin Meaney Kevin Gerard Meaney (April 23, 1956 – October 21, 2016) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Meaney began his career in comedy in 1980. His big break into mainstream culture is considered to be his first HBO comedy special in 1986, followed by his debut performance on ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" in 1987. After that, his act was broadcast several times by HBO, Comedy Central and several network television stations with appearances on ""The Tonight Show"", ""Late Night with David Letterman"", """", ""The Oprah Winfrey Show"" and ""Conan"". His most famous catchphrase was ""That's not"
"New York. According to ""Eastern Daily News"" the autopsy was inconclusive but shows that he died from a heart attack. Kevin Meaney Kevin Gerard Meaney (April 23, 1956 – October 21, 2016) was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Meaney began his career in comedy in 1980. His big break into mainstream culture is considered to be his first HBO comedy special in 1986, followed by his debut performance on ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" in 1987. After that, his act was broadcast several times by HBO, Comedy Central and several network television stations with appearances on ""The Tonight"
"John Mulaney John Edmund Mulaney (born August 26, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for his work as a writer on ""Saturday Night Live"" and as a stand-up comedian with stand-up specials ""The Top Part"", ""New in Town"", ""The Comeback Kid,"" and ""Kid Gorgeous,"" for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special in 2018. He was the creator and star of the short-lived Fox sitcom ""Mulaney"", a semi-autobiographical series about his fictional life. Mulaney also frequently performs as a character called George St. Geegland in"
"Douglas Kenney Douglas Clark Francis Kenney (December 10, 1946 – August 27, 1980) was an American comedy writer of magazine, novels, radio, TV, film and actor who co-founded the magazine ""National Lampoon"" in 1970 as well as a screenwriter later on. Kenney edited the magazine and wrote much of its early material. He would go on to write, act and produce some of the most popular comedies of all time before his death. Kenney was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, the son of Estelle ""Stephanie"" (Karch) and Daniel ""Harry"" Kenney. Kenney was of Irish and Eastern European descent. He"
"collection of Robert Q. Lewis's personal papers, notes, and scripts, covering roughly the years 1940 until 1960, is located at Thousand Oaks Library in Thousand Oaks, California. He is interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Robert Q. Lewis Robert Q. Lewis (born Robert Goldberg; April 25, 1920 – December 11, 1991) was an American radio and television personality, game show host, and actor. Lewis added the middle initial ""Q"" to his name accidentally on the air in 1942, when he responded to a reference to radio comedian F. Chase Taylor's character, Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagle,"
"Rob Bartlett Robert James Bartlett (born May 18, 1957) is an American comedian, actor, impressionist, and writer, who gained widespread fame on the radio show ""Imus in the Morning"". Bartlett has been appearing on the ""Imus"" show, beginning on New York City's WFAN-AM (660) radio, since the late 1980s, and now on WABC-AM (770) radio. His earlier characters included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Manuel Antonio Noriega, and fictional Japanese comedian ""Buddy"" Miyagi. In the years on the show, some of his characters included: The Godfather, Andrew Dice Clay, Dr. Phil McGraw, Rush Limbaugh, Paula Deen, Larry King, Bill Clinton, Gary Busey, Hulk"
"as a fictional future Kenney. In the movie, they show Doug's shoes and glasses lying neatly by the otherwise vacant cliffside. Douglas Kenney Douglas Clark Francis Kenney (December 10, 1946 – August 27, 1980) was an American comedy writer of magazine, novels, radio, TV, film and actor who co-founded the magazine ""National Lampoon"" in 1970 as well as a screenwriter later on. Kenney edited the magazine and wrote much of its early material. He would go on to write, act and produce some of the most popular comedies of all time before his death. Kenney was born in West Palm"
"Bill Cosby William Henry Cosby Jr. (; born July 12, 1937) is an American former stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted sex offender. Cosby began his career as a stand-up comic at the hungry i in San Francisco during the 1960s. He then landed a starring role in the television show ""I Spy"", followed by his own sitcom ""The Bill Cosby Show"", which ran for two seasons from 1969 to 1971. In 1972, using the Fat Albert character developed during his stand-up routines, Cosby created, produced, and hosted the animated comedy television series ""Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids"""
"Harry Secombe Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921 – 11 April 2001) was a Welsh comedian, actor and singer. Secombe was a member of the British radio comedy programme ""The Goon Show"" (1951–60), playing many characters, but most notably, Neddie Seagoon. An accomplished tenor, he also appeared in musicals and films - notably as Mr Bumble in ""Oliver!"" (1968) - and, in his later years, was a presenter of television shows incorporating hymns and other devotional songs. Secombe was born in St Thomas, Swansea, the third of four children of Nellie Jane Gladys (née Davies), a shop manageress,"
"Kyle Mooney Kyle James Kozub Mooney (born September 4, 1984) is an American comedian, actor, and writer, who has been a cast member of ""Saturday Night Live"" since 2013. His man-on-the-street interviews have been featured on ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"" and ""Sports Show with Norm Macdonald"". Mooney has been a regular writer and performer at Upright Citizens Brigade since 2007. He also co-starred as Rory on the HBO comedy series ""Hello Ladies."" Mooney also starred in the film ""Brigsby Bear"", which he co-wrote. Mooney was born in San Diego, California, to parents Linda (née Kozub) and Brian Mooney. Linda is a"
"which he won four Daytime Emmys. He went on to write for Louis C.K.'s sitcom ""Lucky Louie"". He also wrote for the Emmy Awards, ""Politically Incorrect w/ Bill Maher"", ""Cedric the Entertainer Presents"", ""The Man Show"", ""The Wanda Sykes Show"", ""The Gong Show w/ Dave Attell"" and ""The Chelsea Handler Show"". He is currently writing on HBO's Crashing with Pete Holmes. Greg Fitzsimmons Gregory Sebastian ""Greg"" Fitzsimmons (born April 5, 1966) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, producer and radio host. He currently hosted ""The Greg Fitzsimmons Show"" on Howard 101 until December 2018. Fitzsimmons was born in New York"
"Jim Downey (comedian) James Woodward Downey (born 1952) is an American comedy writer and occasional actor. Downey has written for over 30 seasons of ""Saturday Night Live"". Downey attended Harvard University, graduating in 1974 with a degree in Russian. While at Harvard, Downey wrote for the ""Harvard Lampoon"", at a time when (as Steve O'Donnell said in 1987) ""the proliferation of cable and the proliferation of comedy [led] the sensibilities of the ""Lampoon"" [to become] a little closer to the sensibilities of the mass media."" Downey, a member of that first generation of ""Lampoon"" writers to make a career in"
"Fred Emney Frederick Arthur Round Emney (12 February 1900 – 25 December 1980) was an English character actor and comedian. Emney was born in Prescot, Lancashire, the son of Blanche (née Round) and Fred Emney, a music hall entertainer. His great-uncle was the actor Arthur Williams. Emney junior grew up in London and was educated at Cranleigh School. He made his film debut in 1935, having previously worked in music hall. He became a familiar figure to screen audiences, usually playing the ""posh fat bloke"", usually gruff and invariably wearing a monocle. During the 1950s, he had his own television"
"Larry Block ""For the American writer, see"" Lawrence Block Lawrence Joel ""Larry"" Block (October 30, 1942 – October 7, 2012) was an American radio, TV, film and theater actor. In 1971, Block appeared on Sesame Street as Tom, who worked at Hooper's Store. Block also had a brief appearances in the films ""Slap Shot"" (1977) and ""Don't Say a Word"" (2001), alongside Michael Douglas and Brittany Murphy. He was a regular character on Joe Frank's radio program ""Work In Progress"" on KCRW. He was prominently featured in telephone conversations with Frank, such as those in the ""Karma"" series. Block was"
"George Boseman George Boseman is an American actor, comedian and screenplay writer. He is perhaps best known for performed voice impersonations of celebrities and TV roles. In 2015, Boseman performed Snoop Dogg impersonation in the Collegehumor web series, written by Emily Axford and Pat Cassels, directed by Matthew Pollock and Bill Bergen. Highlights as a television writer includes Media Wars, Pilot, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Plastic Cup Boyz, Red Means Go, InAPPropriate Comedy and Katt Williams Presents: Katthouse Comedy. He has also acted in TV episodes and movies such as 30 Rock, Living and Active, Red Mean Go,"
"makeup, requiring the panel to guess his line, which celebrity panelist Phyllis Newman did. Gordon Ramsey Gordon Ramsey (June 19, 1930 – November 5, 1993) was an American television, stage, and voice actor, who was based in New York City. Some of his notable performances included hosting a local children's television show as ""Bozo the Clown"" and voicing characters in the animated series ""Star Blazers"". He appeared in the 1979 Broadway musical ""Carmelina"" and sang on the show's original cast recording. In a 1969 episode of the TV show ""What's My Line?"", Ramsey appeared as Bozo the Clown as a"
"Terry Sweeney Terrance ""Terry"" Sweeney (born March 23, 1950) is an American writer, comedian and actor. He was a writer and cast member of ""Saturday Night Live"" in the 1980s, co-wrote the 1989 film ""Shag"", and has written for the television ""series MADtv"", ""Hype"", and ""Tripping the Rift"". Terrence (Terry) Sweeney was born in 1950 in Queens, New York and raised in Massapequa Park, New York as the younger of two children to Terrence, a butcher, and Lenore Sweeney. As a child, he was bullied and found solace in books, including the Nancy Drew mysteries, as well as in performing"
"Selma to Montgomery marches and participated in a campaign for George McGovern before the 1972 presidential election. Dawson died at age 79 from complications of esophageal cancer in Los Angeles, California on 2 June 2012 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. He was interred in Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles. On June 7, 2012, GSN aired a four-hour marathon of Dawson's greatest moments on ""Match Game"" and ""Family Feud"", including the first episode of Dawson's 1994 season. Richard Dawson Richard Dawson (born Colin Lionel Emm; 20 November 1932 – 2 June 2012) was a British-American actor, comedian, game show"
"Rob Delaney Rob Delaney (born January 19, 1977) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He is widely known as the co-star and co-writer of the TV show ""Catastrophe"", as well as a minor role in the 2018 blockbuster action-comedy ""Deadpool 2"". Delaney was raised in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and graduated with a degree in musical theater in 1999. Delaney first came to the attention of the public via Twitter, on which he started posting in 2009. By 2016, Delaney had over 1.2 million followers. While other comics were hesitant to"
"in divorce. He had no children. Baron died of emphysema in Van Nuys, California, at the age of 64. Sandy Baron Sandy Baron (born Sanford Irving Beresofsky; May 5, 1936 – January 21, 2001) was an American comedian who performed on stage, in films, and on television. Sanford Beresofsky was born in Brooklyn, New York, grew up in the Brownsville neighborhood and graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in East New York; and while he was a student at Brooklyn College, to which he received a scholarship, changed his name to Sandy Baron—taking his inspiration from the nearby Barron's Bookstore."
"The Comedian (Playhouse 90) The Comedian is a 1957 live television drama written by Rod Serling from a novella by Ernest Lehman, directed by John Frankenheimer, and starring Mickey Rooney, Edmond O'Brien, Mel Tormé and Kim Hunter. Rooney's portrayal of a lecherous, vicious comedian who tears down everyone around him was widely praised. The 90-minute drama was part of the anthology series ""Playhouse 90"" on February 14, 1957. The show was captured on kinescope and is available on DVD. Egomaniacal television comedian Sammy Hogarth (Rooney) routinely makes fun of his brother Lester (Tormé) on the air, and is constantly bullying"
"Howard Cosell Howard William Cosell (; born Howard William Cohen; March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995) was an American sports journalist and author, who was prominent and influential on radio, television and print media from the early 1960s into the mid 1980s. He was also an actor who played minor roles in several TV programs and movies. Cosell was widely known for his blustery, confident personality. Cosell said of himself, ""Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff. There's no question that I'm all of those things."" In its obituary for Cosell, ""The New York Times"" described Cosell's effect"
"July 5, 2014, Mulaney married makeup artist and lampshade artisan Annamarie Tendler. Their wedding ceremony was performed by friend Dan Levy. Mulaney had a drinking problem in the past, and no longer drinks alcohol. John Mulaney John Edmund Mulaney (born August 26, 1982) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for his work as a writer on ""Saturday Night Live"" and as a stand-up comedian with stand-up specials ""The Top Part"", ""New in Town"", ""The Comeback Kid,"" and ""Kid Gorgeous,"" for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety"
"Eddie Izzard Edward John Izzard (; born 7 February 1962) is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer and political activist. His comedic style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue, and self-referential pantomime. He had a starring role in the television series ""The Riches"" as Wayne Malloy and has appeared in films such as ""Ocean's Twelve"", ""Ocean's Thirteen"", ""Mystery Men"", ""Shadow of the Vampire"", ""The Cat's Meow"", ""Across the Universe"", ""Valkyrie"" and ""Victoria & Abdul"". He has also worked as a voice actor in ""The Wild"", ""Igor"", """", ""Cars 2"" and ""The Lego Batman Movie"". Izzard has cited his main"
"Stephen Tobolowsky Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is an American actor, author, and musician. He is known for film roles such as annoying insurance agent Ned Ryerson in ""Groundhog Day"" and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in ""Memento"", as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry (""Deadwood""), Bob Bishop (""Heroes""), Sandy Ryerson (""Glee""), Stu Beggs (""Californication"" and ""White Famous""), and Action Jack Barker (""Silicon Valley""). Tobolowsky has a monthly audio podcast, ""The Tobolowsky Files"", of autobiographical stories of his acting and personal life. In 2015, he co-hosted a short-lived second podcast, ""Big Problems – An Advice Podcast"", with"
"Bob Einstein Stewart Robert ""Bob"" Einstein (born November 20, 1942) is an American actor, comedy writer and producer, who is best known for creating and performing the satirical stuntman character Super Dave Osborne. Einstein is also known for his roles as Marty Funkhouser in ""Curb Your Enthusiasm"" and Larry Middleman on ""Arrested Development"". Einstein got his start as a writer on several TV variety shows, including ""The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"" and ""The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour"". Einstein won two Emmy Awards as a writer and was nominated four other times. He also won a CableACE Award for acting"