"became a clown, working first with Brick in 1903, adopting the name ""Grock"", and then the famous clown Antonet (Umberto Guillaum). This second act was developed with the aim of making the transition from circus to music hall stages, which were more lucrative. While not initially successful, Antonet and Grock did manage to secure a London engagement in 1911. Refining their performances according to audience response, Grock came to dominate the act, and they eventually split up. By 1913, Grock's fame had spread, his act having developed into the mixture of pantomime and musical blunders for which he is now"
"Dick Clark Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting ""American Bandstand"" from 1957 to 1988. He also hosted the game show ""Pyramid"" and ""Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve"", which transmitted Times Square's New Year's Eve celebrations. Clark was well known for his trademark sign-off, ""For now, Dick Clark — so long!"", accompanied by a facsimile of a military salute. As host of ""American Bandstand"", Clark introduced rock & roll to many Americans."
"Stephen Kramer Glickman Stephen Kramer Glickman (born March 17, 1979) is a Canadian actor, music producer and stand-up comedian. He is best known as Gustavo Rocque on the Nickelodeon television series ""Big Time Rush"" (2009–2013). Glickman was born to a Jewish family in London, Ontario, Canada, but was raised in Carlsbad, California. Stephen Kramer Glickman starred as a record producer named ""Gustavo Rocque"" on the Nickelodeon television series, ""Big Time Rush"". In 2007, he was cast as Shrek in ""Shrek the Musical"", and played the part in the original Broadway workshops and readings, before Brian d'Arcy James was cast in"
"Groucho Marx Julius Henry ""Groucho"" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. A master of quick wit, he is widely considered one of America's greatest comedians. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show ""You Bet Your Life"". His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated stooped posture, glasses, cigar, and"
"He made the 1927 silent movie ""What For?"", and French and German language versions of ""Grock"" in 1931. A biopic, ""Au revoir, M. Grock"" (1950), featured Grock as himself, with Adrien Osperi and Ted Rémy playing Grock as a boy and young man, respectively. In retirement, he made some appearances on Italian television. He also wrote several books, including an autobiography. Grock's career is commemorated with the , an annual competition for young circus artists which first took place in 2003. This competition has been discontinued since 2008. Grock Grock (January 10, 1880 – July 14, 1959), born Charles Adrien"
"criticism of the hall citing progress made in the enshrining of bands such as Rush, Kiss, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple and Journey. Eddie Trunk Eddie Scott Trunk (born August 8, 1964) is an American music historian, radio personality, talk show host, and author, best known as the host of several hard rock and heavy metal-themed radio and television shows. Trunk was born on August 8, 1964, in Summit, New Jersey, United States. He grew up in Madison, New Jersey, where he attended Madison High School. As a teenager, Trunk became a fan of Kiss, Raspberries, and other bands including Aerosmith,"
"Captain Spaulding""—done entirely in French. Groucho Marx Julius Henry ""Groucho"" Marx (; October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian, writer, stage, film, radio, and television star. A master of quick wit, he is widely considered one of America's greatest comedians. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of whom he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game show ""You Bet Your Life"". His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as an exaggerated"
"George Rock George Rock (October 11, 1919 – April 12, 1988) was a trumpet player and singer with various bands before starring with Spike Jones and His City Slickers. A large man, he attended Wesleyan University on a football scholarship, before turning pro as a musician at the age of 20. His first national exposure was in the Freddie Fisher's Schnickelfritz Band. Working in Hollywood in 1944 he signed up with the Spike Jones Band. With Spike Jones and His Slickers he played lead trumpet, and also sang with the group, using a voice characterization that sounded remarkably like a"
"Guy Marks Guy Marks (31 October 1923 – 28 November 1987) was an American actor, comedian, singer and impressionist. A familiar face on TV sitcoms and variety shows of the 1960s and 1970s, he appeared regularly on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Merv Griffin Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and The Joey Bishop Show. He had a natural gift for mimicry, and his impressions of celebrities such as Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Boris Karloff, and many others were considered among the best. However, he also could imitate a housefly on a slippery oil cloth, neon signs,"
"companies such as Peavey, Fender, and Gibson. His amps are custom made by Soursound, based on a Fender SuperSix, but are highly modified. In October 2005, Brock started his own record label called Glacial Pace. The label used to be a subsidiary of Epic Records, but is now independent. Its first signee was Minnesota songwriter Mason Jennings, followed by Love As Laughter, Marcellus Hall, Mimicking Birds, Morning Teleportation, Talkdemonic, Survival Knife, Nocturnal Habits, and Mattress. Isaac Brock (musician) Isaac Kristofer Brock (born July 9, 1975) is the lead singer, guitarist, banjoist, and songwriter for the American indie rock band Modest"
"GG Allin Kevin Michael ""GG"" Allin (born Jesus Christ Allin; August 29, 1956 – June 28, 1993) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer, who performed and recorded with many groups during his career. GG Allin was best known for his outlandish live performances, which often featured transgressive acts, including coprophagia, self-mutilation, and attacking audience members, for which he was arrested and imprisoned on multiple occasions. AllMusic and G4TV's ""That's Tough"" have called him ""the most spectacular degenerate in rock & roll history"" and the ""toughest rock star in the world"", respectively. Known more for his notorious stage antics"
"Eddie Trunk Eddie Scott Trunk (born August 8, 1964) is an American music historian, radio personality, talk show host, and author, best known as the host of several hard rock and heavy metal-themed radio and television shows. Trunk was born on August 8, 1964, in Summit, New Jersey, United States. He grew up in Madison, New Jersey, where he attended Madison High School. As a teenager, Trunk became a fan of Kiss, Raspberries, and other bands including Aerosmith, Rush, UFO and Black Sabbath. During high school, he began to write reviews of records for school credit and soon found his"
"a visionary and a major force in changing pop culture and ultimately influencing integration,"" Gordy said. ""He presented Motown and the Supremes on tour with the ""Caravan of Stars"" and on ""American Bandstand"", where I got my start,"" Ross said. Clark received the following awards: Dick Clark Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American radio and television personality, television producer and film actor, as well as a cultural icon who remains best known for hosting ""American Bandstand"" from 1957 to 1988. He also hosted the game show ""Pyramid"" and ""Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin'"
"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"
"George Elrick George Elrick (29 December 1903 – 15 December 1999), 'The Smiling Voice of Radio', was a British musician, impresario and radio presenter, probably best known for presenting the popular record request show ""Housewives' Choice"" during the 1950s and 1960s. George Elrick was born in Aberdeen in 1903. His first ambition was to be a doctor but financial constraints prevented this. Still in his teens, he began playing drums for local dance bands and by 1928 had formed his own band, the ""Embassy Band"", which swept the prizes in the All-Scottish Dance Band Championship that year. Elrick turned professional"
"The Chris Rock Show The Chris Rock Show was a late night comedy talk show featured on HBO. It was created by Chris Rock and featured various guests. The show won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program in 1999. It ran for five seasons from 1997 to 2000. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> There have been four DVD releases of The Chris Rock Show in Region 1. The two ""Best of"" DVDs that were released were later repackaged into a single compilation in 2005. Seasons 1 and 2 were released as a DVD set in"
"Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky, June 28, 1926) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show ""Your Show of Shows"". He created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series ""Get Smart"", which ran from 1965 to 1970. In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the top 10 moneymakers of the year they were"
"Shlock Rock Shlock Rock is an American-Israeli Jewish rock band, put together in December 1985, and officially founded in 1986, and led by, singer Lenny Solomon, which parodies popular secular songs, substituting new, religious-themed lyrics for the music. To date they have released 36 albums. Shlock Rock continues to record albums and perform live as of 2015, and to date has sold more than 200,000 CD’s, tapes and DVDs in the contemporary Jewish rock arena. Their music is a mix of pop-rock song parodies and original rock songs in English and Hebrew. The purpose of the band is to spread"
"signature ""Good evening citizens"" introduction, Barry Jenkin (Dr. Rock) helped give the show an alternative edge, cemented later by the arrival of punk rock, the audience for which was fanatical. Jenkin was sometimes noticeably unhappy on air when introducing clips which he believed were unsuitable for the show, particularly anything he perceived to be ""too commercial"". Later producers' aims were to maximize viewers and thus ensure the series' longevity and so clips by acts like Sweet, Rod Stewart and Suzi Quatro were included. However, clips by ABBA, The Bay City Rollers and Leif Garrett were not. Later, the program expanded"
"a few. After he left, Dirksen (the ""pope of punk"") booked The Dead Boys, Nico, The Runaways, Devo, X, The Police, SVT, The Go-Go's, Motörhead, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Patti Smith, The Jim Carroll Band, and others. Comedians such as Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams also made early appearances at the venue. Dirk Dirksen, nephew of Senator Everett Dirksen, had a unique style as emcee, deliberately baiting and trading insults with audience and band members, which had the effect of raising the energy of audience and performers alike. In order to maintain the show's fast pace, he would move"
"Dick Gregory Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer, conspiracy theorist, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. During the turbulent 1960s, Gregory became a pioneer in stand-up comedy for his ""no-holds-barred"" sets, in which he mocked bigotry and racism. He performed primarily to black audiences at segregated clubs until 1961, when he became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences, appearing on television and putting out comedy record albums. Gregory was at the forefront of political activism in the 1960s, when he protested the Vietnam"
"Dick Gregory Richard Claxton Gregory (October 12, 1932 – August 19, 2017) was an American comedian, civil rights activist, social critic, writer, conspiracy theorist, entrepreneur, and occasional actor. During the turbulent 1960s, Gregory became a pioneer in stand-up comedy for his ""no-holds-barred"" sets, in which he mocked bigotry and racism. He performed primarily to black audiences at segregated clubs until 1961, when he became the first black comedian to successfully cross over to white audiences, appearing on television and putting out comedy record albums. Gregory was at the forefront of political activism in the 1960s, when he protested the Vietnam"
"she listens too daily. Two young Icelandic bands played their music on this same event. Gróa, a girl-pop-band and Sideproject, a boys-electronic-dance-band. Björk Björk Guðmundsdóttir (; ; born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, composer, actress, record producer, and DJ. Over her four-decade career, she has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on a range of influences and genres spanning electronic, pop, experimental, classical, trip hop, IDM, and avant-garde music. Born and raised in Reykjavík, she began her music career at age 11 and first gained international recognition as the lead singer of the alternative rock band"
"Michael Gluck Michael Gluck (born March 8, 1983) is the Founder of VGM, a market research firm and the largest provider of custom research to the video game industry. In 2007, at the age of 24, Michael started VGM with $5,000 in savings and grew the company to $20,000,000 in lifetime sales by the age of 30. As of 2017, VGM had serviced more than 50 video game companies, as well as industry leaders in entertainment, media, and technology. As a college student, Gluck performed piano concerts and released an album under the stage name “Piano Squall” to raise money"
"Glenn Beck Glenn Lee Beck (born February 10, 1964) is an American conservative political commentator, radio host and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze. A conservative, he hosts the ""Glenn Beck Radio Program"", a popular talk-radio show nationally syndicated on Premiere Radio Networks. Beck also hosts the ""Glenn Beck"" television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on the Fox News Channel and currently airs on TheBlaze. Beck has authored six ""New York"
"Greg Giraldo Gregory C. Giraldo (December 10, 1965 – September 29, 2010) was an American stand-up comedian, television personality, and lawyer. He is remembered for his appearances on Comedy Central's televised roast specials, and for his work on that network's television shows ""Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn"", ""Lewis Black's Root of All Evil"", and the programming block ""Stand-Up Nation"", the last of which he hosted. Giraldo was born in The Bronx and raised in Bayside, Queens. His father, Alfonso, was from Colombia and worked for Pan Am, and his mother, Dolores, was from Spain. Giraldo was raised Roman Catholic and"
"series ""Club Oasis"". George Rock George Rock (October 11, 1919 – April 12, 1988) was a trumpet player and singer with various bands before starring with Spike Jones and His City Slickers. A large man, he attended Wesleyan University on a football scholarship, before turning pro as a musician at the age of 20. His first national exposure was in the Freddie Fisher's Schnickelfritz Band. Working in Hollywood in 1944 he signed up with the Spike Jones Band. With Spike Jones and His Slickers he played lead trumpet, and also sang with the group, using a voice characterization that sounded"
"Michael Barrymore Michael Ciaran Parker (born 4 May 1952), better known by his stage name Michael Barrymore, is an English comedian and television presenter of game shows and light entertainment programmes on British television in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. These included ""Strike It Lucky"", ""My Kind of People"", ""My Kind of Music"" and ""Kids Say the Funniest Things"". At his peak Barrymore was considered one of the most popular performers in the UK. He headlined the 1993 ""Royal Variety Performance"" and also appeared at the 1983 ""Royal Variety Performance"". Barrymore was voted the UK's favourite television star several times,"
"earned him the monikers ""King of Funk"" and ""Funk Daddy"". Dino was also known for his changing haircuts and his taste for stylish and trendy clothes. He was a born entertainer, who would keep his fans amused during and in between songs, making sure nobody would leave his shows unhappy. Dvornik had been emerging on the Yugoslav music scene when the war broke out. Privately, he had been praised by many for his honesty, and friendship in the true sense of the word, and he also had fans all over the world, particularly amongst people originating from the former Yugoslavia."
"the Ernie Kovacs Award for “slapstick genius.” Bill Camfield William Joseph Camfield (June 27, 1929 – September 30, 1991) was a popular television personality in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best known as Icky Twerp, host of the kids’ show ""Slam Bang Theatre"", and Gorgon, host of the horror film series ""Nightmare"". Camfield was born in Mineral Wells, Texas, the son of a coal miner, Joseph E. Johnston Camfield. Following his father’s death in 1935, Camfield and his mother moved to Fort Worth. Camfield graduated from Carter Riverside High School in 1947, and in 1948"
"the variety shows during much of this period were ""antirock."" Schipper points out that Clark's performers were shocking to general audiences: Clark was therefore considered to have a negative influence on youth, and was well aware of that impression held by most adults: In 2002, many of the groups he introduced appeared at the 50th anniversary special to celebrate ""American Bandstand"". Clark noted during the special that ""American Bandstand"" was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as ""the longest-running variety show in TV history."" In 2010, ""American Bandstand"" and Clark himself were honored at the Daytime Emmy Awards. Hank"
"more HBO comedy specials: ""Bigger & Blacker"" in 1999, and ""Never Scared"" in 2004. Articles relating to both specials called Rock ""the funniest man in America"" in ""Time"" and ""Entertainment Weekly"". HBO also aired his talk show, ""The Chris Rock Show"", which gained critical acclaim for Rock's interviews with celebrities and politicians. The show won an Emmy for writing. His television work has won him a total of three Emmy Awards and 15 nominations. By the end of the decade, Rock was established as one of the preeminent stand-up comedians and comic minds of his generation. During this time, Rock"
"district 9 on Long Island and formerly represented Long Island's state assembly district 20 in the New York State Assembly. Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born Melvin Kaminsky, June 28, 1926) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, and composer. He is known as a creator of broad film farces and comedic parodies. Brooks began his career as a comic and a writer for the early TV variety show ""Your Show of Shows"". He created, with Buck Henry, the hit television comedy series ""Get Smart"", which ran from 1965 to 1970. In middle age, Brooks became one of the most successful film"