"Argumental Argumental (working title Whose Side Are You On?) is a British improvised comedy panel game hosted originally by John Sergeant and later Sean Lock, alongside two teams captained by Marcus Brigstocke and Rufus Hound, followed by Robert Webb and Seann Walsh, debating and arguing on various topics with help from various guests. It is made by independent production company Tiger Aspect Productions for Dave and made its debut on 27 October 2008. Series three was commissioned for Dave and four episodes from the second series aired on BBC Two, making it UKTV's most successful commission in terms of reach"
"showed over three-quarters of respondents wanting Deayton to stay on as the programme's host. In April 2003, Stephen Fry supported Deayton, by refusing to appear on the show again. Angus Deayton Gordon Angus Deayton (; born 6 January 1956) is an English actor, writer, musician, comedian, and broadcaster. He was the original presenter of the satirical panel game ""Have I Got News for You"", a job from which he was dismissed in October 2002 after a second round of tabloid allegations about his personal life. He was also the host of British panel show ""Would I Lie To You?"" from"
"Marc Lamont Hill Marc Lamont Hill (born December 17, 1978) is an American academic, author, activist, and television personality. He is a Professor of Media Studies and Urban Education at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the host of the syndicated television show ""Our World with Black Enterprise"" and hosts the online Internet-based HuffPost Live. He is also a BET News correspondent, and a former political commentator for CNN and Fox News. Hill also hosts ""VH1 Live!"" and reunion shows for ""Basketball Wives"". Hill was fired from his position as a commentator for CNN after remarks before the U.N."
"Angeles version in 2009. Kimmel has been a fundraiser for the Democratic Party. Jimmy Kimmel James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC in 2003. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2016, and the Academy Awards in 2017, 2018 and now 2019. Before hosting ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", he was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central's ""The Man Show"" and ""Win Ben Stein's Money"". Kimmel has also produced such"
"the contestants. On the initial program of February 2, 1950, the panel was former New Jersey governor Harold Hoffman, columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, poet Louis Untermeyer, and psychiatrist Richard Hoffmann. The panel varied somewhat in the following weeks, but after the first few broadcasts, during the show's earliest period the panel generally consisted of Kilgallen, actress Arlene Francis, Untermeyer and comedy writer Hal Block. At various times, a regular panelist might take a vacation or be absent from an episode due to outside commitments. On these occasions, a guest panelist would take their spot. The most frequent guest panelist was Arlene"
"Michael Palin Michael Edward Palin (; born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He was a member of the comedy group Monty Python and later made a number of travel documentaries. Palin wrote most of his comedic material with fellow Python member Terry Jones. Before Monty Python, they had worked on other shows such as the ""Ken Dodd Show"", ""The Frost Report"", and ""Do Not Adjust Your Set"". Palin appeared in some of the most famous Python sketches, including ""Argument Clinic"", ""Dead Parrot sketch"", ""The Lumberjack Song"", ""The Spanish Inquisition"", ""Bicycle Repair Man"" and"
"Aaronovitch, Paul Zenon, and Jon Ronson. ""Be Reasonable"" is a monthly interview show that engages guests with ideas outside the mainstream scientific consensus, such as a member of the Flat Earth Society. In the first episode, on 28 January 2013, hosts Hayley Stevens (until June 2014) and Michael Marshall described the show as an examination of their guests' beliefs and their structure, and the evidence they believe supports these beliefs. Guests have discussed past life therapy, aura photography and the presence of aliens on Earth. Starting in February 2011 the Merseyside Skeptics Society, in conjunction with the Greater Manchester Skeptics"
"Antonin Scalia, who suggested during oral argument of the PPACA cases that if Congress has the power to require Americans to buy health insurance, then ""Therefore, you can make people buy broccoli."" Comedian and ""The Price Is Right"" host Drew Carey serves on the Board of Trustees at Reason Foundation. According to an interview by Katherine Herrup of ""The New York Sun"" with Nick Gillespie (current editor-in-chief of Reason TV), Carey initially proposed the idea for Reason TV after reading ""Reason"" magazine for years. He then both appeared in and narrated many videos produced by Reason TV. One of the"
"to ""Red Eye"" host Greg Gutfeld's forced apology to the Canadian military in 2009. During a segment in January 2013 where a story relating to lactose intolerance was being discussed, Levy came out as lactose-intolerant himself. On occasion, Levy hosted the show when Greg Gutfeld was absent or appeared on the panel as the fictitious screen and stage actor ""Victor Roberts."" Andrew Levy Andrew ""Andy"" Levy (born August 11, 1966) is an American commentator and humorist, and was part of S.E. Cupp's HLN show ""S.E. Cupp Unfiltered"" as a panelist and senior producer until the show moved to CNN. He"
"Parlamentet Parlamentet (Swedish for ""The Parliament"") is a satirical panel gameshow on TV4, which parodies Swedish political debate. It was first broadcast in 1999 and is currently in its 23rd series. The current presenter is Anders S. Nilsson, who has hosted the show since 2004. Current team members include Babben Larsson, Robin Paulsson, Johan Rheborg and Johan Glans. Kodjo Akolor has also been featured. The program is a Swedish version of the short-run British show If I Ruled the World. The comedians are divided into two teams (""parties""), red and blue, representing traditional political colours. The show has had many"
"host. Zhubin Parang Zhubin Parang is an American comedian and television writer. He was the head writer on the political satire series ""The Daily Show"" from 2015 to 2018. Parang was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 4, 1981 to Iranian parents. His father Masood is a professor and the associate dean of academic and student affairs at the University of Tennessee's Tickle College of Engineering. Parang attended Vanderbilt University where he was member of the Tongue 'N' Cheek improv group and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity. After graduating in 2003 with a degree in political science and sociology, Parang earned"
"Richard Osman Richard Thomas Osman (born 28 November 1970) is an English television presenter, producer, comedian and director, best known for being the creator and co-presenter of the BBC One television quiz show ""Pointless"". He also presents the BBC Two quiz shows ""Two Tribes"" and ""Richard Osman's House of Games,"" and is a team captain on the comedy panel shows ""Insert Name Here"" and ""The Fake News Show"". Osman has gained recognition for his appearances on a wide variety of British panel shows. Osman worked at Hat Trick Productions before becoming creative director of the television production company Endemol UK,"
"Jimmy Kimmel James Christian Kimmel (born November 13, 1967) is an American television host, comedian, writer, and producer. He is the host and executive producer of ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", a late-night talk show that premiered on ABC in 2003. Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmy Awards in 2012 and 2016, and the Academy Awards in 2017, 2018 and now 2019. Before hosting ""Jimmy Kimmel Live!"", he was best known as the co-host of Comedy Central's ""The Man Show"" and ""Win Ben Stein's Money"". Kimmel has also produced such shows as ""Crank Yankers"", ""Sports Show with Norm Macdonald"", and ""The Andy Milonakis"
"on ASpecialThing Records. Branum is openly gay. Guy Branum Guy Branum (born November 12, 1975) is an American comedian, writer, and actor best known as the head writer of, and a sketch performer on, ""X-Play"" on the G4 network and as a regular panelist on ""Chelsea Lately"" on the E! network. He currently hosts the podcast ""Pop Rocket"" on the Maximum Fun network, and he is the host of TruTV's ""Talk Show the Game Show"". Branum was born and raised in Yuba City, California to a Protestant father and Jewish mother. He attended the University of California, Berkeley from 1994-1998"
"Aaron Sagers Aaron Sagers is an American television presenter/personality, entertainment journalist, and expert of geek culture and paranormal media. He is also a syndicated columnist, author, zombie pundit, and founder of ParanormalPopCulture.com, a website which covers paranormal topics in popular culture Sagers has been on ""The Today Show"", is Host/Co-Executive Producer on Travel Channel's ""Paranormal Paparazzi"" (and appeared on the network's ""Paranormal Challenge"" as a celebrity guest judge), hosted a talk show for Syfy's ""Being Human"", appeared as HBO's ""Game of Thrones"" expert for morning shows across the nation and Australia, and filmed a ""Travels with Dracula"" travel show in"
"including a six-month treatment program for alcoholism, but said that she did not commit any lewd acts or child abuse. Poundstone identifies as asexual and as an atheist. Paula Poundstone Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, author, actress, interviewer, and commentator. Beginning in the late 1980s, she performed a series of one-hour HBO comedy specials. She provided backstage commentary during the 1992 presidential election on ""The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."" She is the host of National Public Radio program ""Live from the Poundstone Institute"", a frequent panelist on NPR's weekly news quiz show ""Wait"
"with the addition of Evelyn O'Rourke. The first episode attracted an average audience share of 23 per cent. New presenter David McWilliams apologised to broadcaster Miriam O'Callaghan for comments of a sexist nature about her he had included in his latest book. ""The Panel"" returned on 7 October 2010 with a new host, Craig Doyle. The regulars Maxwell, Delamere, Murphy and Farrell returned, with Eleanor Tiernan, Bernard O'Shea, Dermot Whelan, Gearóid Farrelly, John Colleary, Kevin Bridges, Stephen K. Amos and Jack Whitehall appearing throughout the series. This series included the show's 100th episode. On 4 June 2011, Andrew Maxwell, one"
"comedy. In May 2017 Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan were on US standup tour and were invited as guests on Conan. Narek Margaryan Narek Margaryan (, ) (born September 14, 1983 in Yerevan, Soviet Union) is an Armenian comedian, screenwriter and TV host. Since 2007 with his friend, comedian and writer Sergey Sargsyan he wrote, directed and performed a series of stand up comedy shows. In 2009 Narek Margaryan and Sergey Sargsyan started ArmComedy first satiric news site in Armenia giving a fresh, funny and controversial interpretation of on current Armenian social and political developments. In 2010 ArmComedy won ArmNet"
"Argument Clinic ""Argument Clinic"" is a sketch from ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"", written by John Cleese and Graham Chapman. The sketch was originally broadcast as part of the television series and has subsequently been performed live by the group. It relies heavily on wordplay and dialogue, and has been used as an example of how language works. Michael Palin pays a receptionist (played by Rita Davies) to have a five-minute argument. The receptionist directs him to Chapman's room, but when he walks in, Chapman hurls abuse at him. Palin interrupts, saying he wants an argument, and Chapman says he is"
"Regan Burns Regan Burns (born June 13, 1968) is an American actor and comedian. He is known best as being the host of the hidden camera game show Oblivious, also known for various small roles in TV commercials and programs. Burns hosted the game show ""Oblivious"", in which Burns acted as someone or something (an artist or golf instructor, for instance) and asked a contestant a series of five questions in conversation. The contestant wouldn't realize it was a hoax until all questions had been asked. They would then receive money for answering questions. Burns's other work include commentary for"
"Aaron Freeman Aaron Freeman (born June 8, 1956) is an American journalist, stand-up comedian, author, cartoonist, and blogger. Freeman is host of the weekly informational radio program ""Metropolis"" which is broadcast in the Midwest. He is also a commentator on NPR's flagship news program, ""All Things Considered"". Freeman co-wrote and directed the stage comedy ""The Arab/Israeli Comedy Hour"". As a stand up comedian, he is a member of the quartet the Israeli/Palestinian Comedy Tour. Freeman has performed with The Second City and performs with the Second City Theater. Along with long-time friend and collaborator Rob Kolson, he created the long-running"
"abide the Southern Baptist Convention's indoctrination of children and its anti-gay stance"" adding that he is now ""searching for a new belief system."" Alton Brown Alton Crawford Brown Jr. (born July 30, 1962) is an American television personality, food show presenter, author, actor, cinematographer, and musician. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show ""Good Eats"", host of the mini-series ""Feasting on Asphalt"" and ""Feasting on Waves"", and host and main commentator on ""Iron Chef America"" and ""Cutthroat Kitchen"". Brown is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking. On Alton's 2017 book tour,"
"Jordan Klepper Jordan Klepper (born March 9, 1979) is an American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He hosted the satirical Comedy Central program ""The Opposition with Jordan Klepper"" from 2017 to 2018. Klepper began his career as a member of The Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade, where he met his wife Laura Grey. Soon after, they began producing and starring in their own short films that they wrote together. In 2014 Klepper became a correspondent on ""The Daily Show"" with Jon Stewart as host. He remained in the show with Trevor Noah until 2017. Jordan"
"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"
"Paul F. Tompkins Paul Francis Tompkins (born September 12, 1968) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He is known for his work in television on such programs as ""Mr. Show with Bob and David"", ""Real Time with Bill Maher"", and ""Best Week Ever"", later renamed ""Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins"". He is known for his numerous appearances on podcasts, including his 200-plus appearances on ""Comedy Bang! Bang!"" He has also been the host of the Fusion Channel talk show ""No, You Shut Up!"", ""The Dead Authors Podcast"", the online Made Man interview series ""Speakeasy with Paul F."
"Nick Di Paolo Nicholas Rocco ""Nick"" Di Paolo (born January 31, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, radio personality and podcast host. In July 2018, he launched his new audio and video podcast, ""The Nick Di Paolo Show"". Was also an emcee on truTV Presents: World’s Dumbest. Di Paolo was born in Danvers, Massachusetts to parents Nick and Joan Di Paolo. In 1980, after graduating from high school, he attended the University of Maine where he became the running back of the university's American football team, and graduated with a major in marketing in 1984. He said, ""I"
"the TV movie ""Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style"" and her and comedian Paul F. Tompkins talking about """". In October 2017, April and best friend Millie De Chirico started the podcast Sordid Details, where they ""get to the heart of matters of least importance,"" including the black market, fast food favorites, mom clothes, and Huey Lewis. April Richardson April Marie Richardson (born May 1, 1979) is an American stand-up comedian. She was a round table regular on the television show ""Chelsea Lately"" and a frequent contestant on ""@midnight"". She is from Atlanta, Georgia. Richardson was born in Savannah, Georgia."
"Paul Gilmartin Paul R. Gilmartin (born January 9, 1963) is an American stand up comedian, podcast host and television personality best known as the longtime host of TBS's ""Dinner and a Movie"". Since 2011, he has been the host and executive producer of the podcast ""The Mental Illness Happy Hour"". Paul Gilmartin was born in South Holland, Illinois, and attended St. Joseph's school in Homewood. He is an alumnus of Indiana University at Bloomington. While there, he majored in theater and was a member of the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa. He also studied at Chicago's famed Second City."
"The broadcast of the 2017 revival premiered on ABC on June 22, 2017, hosted by previously-unknown ""British comedian"" Tommy Maitland. Maitland is, in fact, a character portrayed by Mike Myers, although neither ABC nor Myers confirmed this and ABC officially credited Maitland as host and executive producer. Maitland's catchphrase is ""Who's a cheeky monkey?"" He also periodically uses Barris' ""back with more stuff"" catchphrase to lead into commercials. Celebrity guest judges for the 2017 revival included Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Alison Brie, Andy Samberg, Elizabeth Banks, Tracee Ellis Ross, Joel McHale, Megan Fox, Courteney Cox, Dana Carvey, Will Forte, Jack Black,"
"Comic-Con, Wizard World, Dragon Con and New York Comic Con. Sagers has appeared as a moderator or panelist alongside the casts of ""Firefly"", ""Guardians of the Galaxy"", ""Comic Book Men"", and """". At San Diego Comic-Con and New York Comic Con, he has hosted cast panels with the casts of productions such as ""Being Human"", Syfy's ""Defiance"", and Ascension. He has also conducted one-on-one panel conversations with media personalities such as David Tennant, David Boreanaz, Nathan Fillion, Stan Lee, Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Norman Reedus, Robert Rodriguez, Zachary Quinto. Aaron Sagers Aaron Sagers is an American television presenter/personality, entertainment journalist,"
"Frankie Boyle Francis Martin Patrick Boyle (born 16 August 1972) is a Scottish comedian and writer, well known for his pessimistic and often controversial sense of humour. He was a permanent panellist on the comedy panel show ""Mock the Week"" from its beginning in June 2005 until his departure in September 2009 and since then has made guest appearances on several other panel shows, as well as writing for Jimmy Carr's ""Distraction"" and Sean Lock's ""TV Heaven, Telly Hell"". Boyle was born and raised in Pollokshaws, Glasgow to Irish Catholic parents from the Crolly area of County Donegal in the"
"Alexander Armstrong Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English comedian, actor, television presenter and bass baritone singer, best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and as host of the BBC TV game show ""Pointless"". Aside from his ""Armstrong and Miller"" sketch show characters, Armstrong's television credits include a leading role in the TV series ""Life Begins"", whilst he also voiced Professor M in ""Tooned"", alien supercomputer Mr Smith in the ""Doctor Who"" spin-off ""The Sarah Jane Adventures"" as well as the main show's two part story ""The Stolen Earth"" / ""Journey's"
"Frank Skinner Frank Skinner (born Christopher Graham Collins; 28 January 1957) is an English writer, comedian, TV and radio presenter, and actor. At the 2001 British Comedy Awards, he was awarded the Best Comedy Entertainment Personality. He presented ""Fantasy Football League"", from 1994–2004, ""The Frank Skinner Show"" from 1995–2005, ""Baddiel and Skinner Unplanned"" from 2000–2005 and ""Room 101"" from 2012–2018. Since 2009 he has hosted ""The Frank Skinner Show"" on Absolute Radio, which is broadcast live on Saturdays and later released as a podcast. Along with David Baddiel, he provided vocals and wrote the lyrics for Three Lions, the official"