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| x Bill Hicks | Black comedy | Caroline's | Ninja Bachelor Party |
William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician. His material largely consisted of general discussions about society, religion, politics, philosophy, and...
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| x Gilbert Gottfried |
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Caroline's |
Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28, 1955) is an American actor, voice actor and stand-up comedian best known for his trademark comedic persona of speaking in a loud, grating tone of voice. He has played numerous roles in film and television,...
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| x Colin Quinn |
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Sketch comedy | Caroline's |
Colin Edward Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian and writer best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, as the sidekick/announcer of MTV's late 1980s gameshow Remote Control and as host of Tough Crowd...
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Observational comedy | Caroline's |
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld (born April 29, 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and television and film producer, best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998), which he co-created...
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| x Mitch Hedberg |
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Observational comedy | Caroline's | Los Enchiladas! |
Mitchell Lee "Mitch" Hedberg (February 24, 1968 – March 29, 2005) was an American stand-up comedian known for his surreal humor and unconventional comedic delivery. His comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-line jokes, mixed with absurd...
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| x Zach Galifianakis |
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Zachary Knight "Zach" Galifianakis ( /ˌɡælɨfəˈnækɨs/ GAL-i-fə-NAK-iss; born October 1, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian and actor known for his numerous film and television appearances including his own Comedy Central Presents special. While...
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| x Adele Givens |
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Adele Givens is an African American actress and comedian from Chicago, Illinois. She lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
In 2001, she hosted The Source's Hip Hip Awards Preshow which was shown on UPN. Givens was the 1989 Grand Prize Winner of the Crown...
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| x Chelsea Handler |
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Chelsea Joy Handler (born February 25, 1975) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, best-selling author, and producer. She has hosted the late-night talk show Chelsea Lately on E! Entertainment Television since 2007. In 2012 Time magazine placed...
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| x Cory Kahaney |
Cory Kahaney (born 1963) is an American comedian. She competed in the first season of NBC's reality television show Last Comic Standing.
Cory was a grand finalist and runner-up in season one of NBC's Last Comic Standing. She has had her own comedy...
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| x Ellen DeGeneres |
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Observational comedy |
Ellen Lee DeGeneres ( /dɨˈdʒɛnərəs/; born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
DeGeneres has hosted both the Academy Awards and the Primetime...
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Heather Fink is a comedy writer in New York City. She maintains the website www.heatherfink.com.Born and raised in New Jersey, she currently resides in Hoboken, NJ and hosts Hoboken Comedy Night.She attended The George Washington University and...
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| x Janeane Garofalo |
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Observational comedy | Housekeeping |
Janeane Garofalo ( /dʒəˈniːn ɡəˈrɒfəloʊ/; born September 28, 1964) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, progressive political activist and writer. She is the former co-host on the now defunct Air America Radio's The Majority Report. Garofalo...
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| x Joan Rivers |
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Rabbit Test |
Joan Alexandra Molinsky, publicly known as Joan Rivers, (born June 8, 1933) is an American television personality, comedian, and actress. She is known for her brash manner; her loud, raspy voice with a heavy New York accent; and her numerous...
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| x Judy Tenuta |
Judy Tenuta (born November 7, 1956, in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American entertainer, actress, comedienne, author, producer and accordionist.
One of nine siblings, Judy Lynn was born in 1956 into a huge Catholic family; to a Polish mother Joann,...
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| x Kaitlin Colombo |
Kaitlin Colombo (born April 21, 1986) is an American stand-up comedian, television personality, writer, and actress. She is perhaps best known for her brief but noteworthy audition for the fourth season of NBC's reality series Last Comic Standing,...
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Kate Clinton (born November 9, 1947) is a American comedian specializing in political commentary from a gay/lesbian point of view.
Clinton was born in Buffalo, New York. She grew up Catholic in New York state and taught high school English for eight...
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| x Kathleen Madigan |
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Kathleen Madigan (born September 30, 1965, in Florissant, MO, USA) is an American comedian.
Kathleen Madigan grew up in the St. Louis suburb of Florissant as one of seven children in a large Irish-American family. She attended McCluer North High...
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| x Kathy Griffin |
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Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American actress, comedian, model, writer and producer. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, she moved to Los Angeles in 1978, where she studied drama at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute...
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Kathy Ann Najimy (born February 6, 1957) is an American actress and comedian, most notable as Olive Massery on the television series Veronica's Closet, Sister Mary Patrick in Sister Act and the voice of Peggy Hill on the animated television series...
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| x Lea DeLaria |
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Lea DeLaria (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedienne, actress, and jazz musician. The "famously controversial" DeLaria was "the first openly gay comic to break the late-night talk-show barrier" with her 1993 appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show....
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| x Lily Tomlin |
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Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960s when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured...
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| x Lisa Lampanelli |
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Insult comedy | New York Friars' Club |
Lisa Lampanelli (born Lisa Lampugnale; July 19, 1961) is an American stand-up comedian and insult comic. She is noted for her racy and controversial style of comedy, which frequently includes subjects such as race and homosexuality.
Lampanelli, one...
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| x Lisa Landry |
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For The fictional character on the TV Series, Sister, Sister See, Sister, Sister (TV series), (Section: Characters).
Lisa Landry (born August 5) is an American Stand-up comedian, actress and writer. She grew up in a very religious family in the...
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| x Lynn Lavner |
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Lynn Lavner is an American comedian and musician from Brooklyn, New York. Much of her material is based around the facts that she is Jewish and a lesbian. She is frequently billed as "America's Most Politically Incorrect Entertainer."
Lavner began...
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| x Lynne Koplitz |
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Lynne Koplitz is an American stand-up comedian and actress. Born June 13, 1969 in Long Island, New York, USA and raised in Sarasota, Florida. She was host of Telepictures' nationally syndicated dating show Change of Heart, guest host on NBC's Later,...
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| x Maile Flanagan |
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Maile Flanagan (born May 19, 1965) is an American actress known for her role as the protagonist ninja Naruto Uzumaki in Naruto, Geri O'Flanagan in 3Way, and Janet in Yes Man.
Maile is her middle name, a Hawaiian word for the green laurel commonly...
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| x Marga Gomez |
Marga Gomez is a Puerto Rican/Cuban-American comedian, playwright, and humorist. She is openly lesbian.
Gomez got her start in the gay comedy clubs of San Francisco in the mid 1980s, including the Valencia Rose Cabaret founded by Ron Lanza and Hank...
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| x Margaret Cho |
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Character comedy | Two Sisters |
Margaret Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, and singer-songwriter. Cho, of Korean descent, is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems,...
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Marilyn Martinez (February 9, 1955 – November 3, 2007) was a Hispanic American stand up comedian and actress. She was a regular performer at The Comedy Store in Hollywood.
She appeared in numerous television comedy specials including 1st Amendment...
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| x Mary Anne Nichols |
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Mary Anne Nichols is an American comedian from Delaware who describes herself as "The National Poster Girl for Menopause".
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| x Minnie Pearl |
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Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon (October 25, 1912 – March 4, 1996), known professionally as Minnie Pearl, was an American country comedienne who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry for more than 50 years (from 1940 to 1991) and on the television show Hee Haw...
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| x Moms Mabley |
Jackie "Moms" Mabley, born Loretta Mary Aiken (March 19, 1894 – May 23, 1975) was an American standup comedian and a pioneer of the so-called "Chitlin' Circuit" of African-American vaudeville.
Mabley was born in Brevard, North Carolina. Although she...
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| x Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson |
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Monique Angela Hicks (née Imes) (born December 11, 1967), known professionally as Mo'Nique, is an American comedienne and actress. Mo'Nique rose to fame in the UPN series The Parkers while making a name as a stand-up comedian hosting a variety of...
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| x Nia Vardalos | I Hate Valentine's Day |
Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos (born September 24, 1962) is a Greek-Canadian actress, screenwriter, director, singer and producer. Her most notable work is the 2002 Academy Award–nominated film My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
Vardalos was born in Winnipeg...
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| x Paula Poundstone |
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Improvisational comedy |
Paula Poundstone (born December 29, 1959) is an American stand-up comedian.
Poundstone was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and her family moved to Sudbury, Massachusetts. Poundstone attended Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, but dropped out to...
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| x Phyllis Diller |
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Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver; July 17, 1917) is an American actress and comedian. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically dressed housewife who makes self-deprecating jokes about her age and appearance, her terrible...
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| x René Hicks |
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René Hicks is an African American comedian. She has appeared on Comedy Central's Comedy Central Presents and in numerous college shows. She was twice named NACA Comedy Entertainer of the Year, in 1995 and 1997. Hicks is also a former accountant and...
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| x Rita Rudner |
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Rita Rudner (born September 17, 1953) is an American comedienne, writer and actress.
Rudner was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of Frances, a homemaker, and Abe Rudner, a lawyer. Her mother died when she was 13. After graduating from high...
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| x Roseanne Barr |
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Roseanne Cherrie Barr (born November 3, 1952) is an American actress, comedian, writer, television producer and director. Barr began her career in stand-up comedy at clubs before gaining fame for her role in the sitcom Roseanne. The show was a hit...
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| x Rosie O'Donnell |
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Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962) is an American comedienne, actress, author and television personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer and...
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| x Rosie Tran |
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Rosie Tran (born 11 January 1984 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American stand-up comedienne, actress, and writer.
Rosie Tran was born and raised in Algiers, New Orleans to Vietnamese immigrants. Her father is a retired biomedical engineer and...
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| x Sandra Bernhard |
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Sandra Bernhard (born June 6, 1955) is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is...
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| x Sarah Silverman |
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Character comedy |
Sarah Kate Silverman (born December 1, 1970) is an American comedienne, writer, actress, singer and musician. Her satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics such as racism, sexism, and religion.
Silverman first gained notice...
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| x Sommore |
Sommore (born Lori Ann Rambough; May 15, 1966) is an actress and comedienne from Trenton, New Jersey. She is the half sister of actress Nia Long. Rambough attended Morris Brown College, and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sommore has appeared...
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| x Susie Essman |
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Susan "Susie" Essman (born May 31, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, television producer, and voice artist. She is best known for her role as Susie Greene on the HBO television sitcom Curb Your Enthusiasm. She is also well...
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| x Suzanne Westenhoefer |
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Suzanne Westenhoefer (born March 31, 1961 in Columbia, Pennsylvania) is an out lesbian stand-up comedian. She starred as a panelist on GSN's 2006 remake of I've Got a Secret, which featured a panel of gay celebrities who had to guess the various...
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| x Tig Notaro | Stand-up comedy | Have Tig at Your Party |
Mathilde 'Tig' Notaro is an American stand-up comic.
"Tig" is a childhood nickname. Her great-great-grandfather was mayor of New Orleans John Fitzpatrick. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Pass Christian, Mississippi, but later...
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| x Totie Fields |
Totie Fields (May 7, 1930 – August 2, 1978) was an American comedienne.
Fields was born Sophie Feldman in Hartford, Connecticut. She started singing in Boston clubs while still in high school, taking the stage name of Totie Fields. The name "Totie"...
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| x Wanda Sykes |
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Wanda Sykes (born March 7, 1964) is an American writer, stand-up comedian, actress, and voice artist. She earned the 1999 Emmy Award for her writing on The Chris Rock Show. In 2004 Entertainment Weekly named Sykes as one of the 25 funniest people in...
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| x Wendy Liebman |
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Wendy Liebman (born February 27, 1961 in Manhasset, New York) is an American stand-up comedian known for her distinctive style which includes quick, clever follow-ups after her jokes. She starts the joke leading it to one direction then changes it....
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| x Whoopi Goldberg |
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Whoopi Goldberg ( /ˈhwʊpi/, born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, political activist, author and talk show host.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a...
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| x Alan King |
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Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He was also a serious actor who appeared in a number of...
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| x Allan Havey |
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Allan Havey (born 19 September 1954) is an American stand-up comic and actor. He started his career as a comedian in New York City in 1981. He made his national debut in 1986 on Late Night with David Letterman and made many appearances on the show...
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| x Andrew Dice Clay |
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Character comedy |
Andrew Dice Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein; September 29, 1957) is an American comedian and actor who played the lead role in the film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.
Clay has been in several movies and has released a number of stand-up albums....
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| x Andy Bumatai |
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Andy Bumatai is a Hawaiian-based comedian and actor.
Bumatai began his career opening for popular Hawaiian comedian Frank De Lima and soon found himself replacing the late Rap Reiplinger in Booga Booga, Hawaii's seminal sketch comedy group. He went...
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| x Andy Dick |
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Danny Roane: First Time Director |
Andrew Roane "Andy" Dick (born December 21, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, musician and television/film producer. His first regular television role was on the short-lived but highly influential Ben Stiller Show. In the mid-1990s, he had a...
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| x Andy Kaufman | Character comedy |
Andrew Geoffrey "Andy" Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor and performance artist. While often referred to as a comedian, Kaufman did not consider himself to be one. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in...
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| x Arsenio Hall |
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Arsenio Hall (born February 12, 1956) is an American actor, comedian, and former talk show host. He is best known for hosting "The Arsenio Hall Show."
Hall is also known for his appearance as Alan Thicke's sidekick on the talk show Thicke of the...
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| x Artie Lange |
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Arthur Steven "Artie" Lange, Jr. (born October 11, 1967) is an American actor, comedian and radio personality best known for his tenures with the The Howard Stern Show and the comedy sketch series MADtv.
Lange performed his first stand-up comedy...
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