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| x John Candy |
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The Second City | 1973 |
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994) was a Canadian-American comedian and actor. He rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Ontario branch of The Second City. One of his most renowned on-screen performances was that of Del...
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| x Stephen Colbert |
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The Second City | 1993 |
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (pronounced /koʊlˈbɛər/; born /ˈkoʊlbərt/ May 13, 1964) is an American political satirist, writer, comedian and television host. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert...
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| x Chris Farley |
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The Second City | 1989 |
Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American comedian and actor. Farley was a member of Chicago's The Second City Theatre and the cast of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. He has also...
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| x Bill Murray |
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The Second City | 1973 |
William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American actor and comedian. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, and went on to star in a number of critically and commercially successful comedic films including...
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| x James Belushi |
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The Second City | 1978 |
James Adam "Jim" Belushi (born June 15, 1954) is an Albanian-American actor, comedian and musician. He is the younger brother of John Belushi. He had a leading role in the sitcom According to Jim.
Belushi was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of...
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| x Shelley Long |
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The Second City | 1976 |
Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949) is an American actress.
Long was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana at 7:00 A.M. on Tuesday, August 23, 1949. The daughter of Evandine, a school teacher, and Leland Long, who worked in the rubber industry before...
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| x Mike Myers |
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The Second City | 1988 |
Michael John "Mike" Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian-English actor, comedian, screenwriter and film producer. He was a long-time cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s and the early 1990s and starred as the...
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| x Dan Castellaneta |
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The Second City | 1986 |
Daniel Louis "Dan" Castellaneta (born October 29, 1957) is an American film, theatre and television actor, comedian, voice artist and television writer. Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons,...
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| x Scott Adsit |
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The Second City | 1994 |
Scott Adsit (born November 26, 1965) is an American writer, actor and improviser. He is currently appearing in 30 Rock on NBC and played an active role in Moral Orel on Adult Swim.
In 1994, he joined the mainstage cast of The Second City in Chicago,...
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| x Rachel Dratch |
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The Second City | 1995 |
Rachel Susan Dratch (born February 22, 1966) is an American actress and comedienne, perhaps best known as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1999 to 2006.
Dratch was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, the daughter of Elaine, a transportation...
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| x Tim Meadows |
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The Second City | 1989 |
Tim Meadows (born February 5, 1961) is an American actor and comedian who performed on the TV show Saturday Night Live.
Meadows was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the son of Mardell, a nurse's assistant, and Lathon Meadows, a janitor. Meadows's...
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| x Peter Aykroyd |
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The Second City | 1976 |
Peter Hugh Aykroyd was born to Lorraine and Peter Aykroyd in Canada. He is the younger brother of comedian Dan Aykroyd. Along with his older brother he was in the Second City comedy troupe in Toronto, Ontario. The two were also on the popular NBC...
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| x Dave Thomas |
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The Second City | 1975 |
David "Dave" Thomas (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian comedian and actor. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, but moved to Durham, North Carolina where his father, John E. Thomas, attended Duke University and earned a PhD in Philosophy. Thomas...
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| x Dan Aykroyd |
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The Second City | 1973 |
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an...
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| x Andrea Martin |
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The Second City | 1975 |
Andrea Louise Martin (born January 15, 1947) is an American actress and comedienne.
Martin, the oldest of three children, was born in Portland, Maine, of Armenian heritage, in 1947. Her father owned Martins, a grocery store. Her early success was...
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| x Catherine O'Hara |
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The Second City | 1974 |
Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress and comedienne. She is well known for her comedy work on SCTV, and her roles in the films After Hours, Beetlejuice, Home Alone, and The Nightmare Before Christmas; as well in...
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| x Eugene Levy |
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The Second City | 1974 |
Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946) is a Canadian actor, television director, producer, musician and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies and television movies. He is the only person to star in every...
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| x Gilda Radner |
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The Second City | 1973 |
Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award. Radner's death...
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| x Martin Short |
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The Second City | 1977 |
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live.
Short, youngest of five children,...
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| x Samuel Howard |
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Three Stooges | 1925 | 1955 |
Shemp Howard (March 4, 1895 – November 22, 1955) was an American comedian best known as a part of the Three Stooges comedy team. Born Samuel Horwitz, he was called "Shemp" because "Sam" came out that way in his mother's thick Litvak accent. He was...
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| x Moe Howard |
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Three Stooges | 1925 | 1975 |
Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz, June 19, 1897 – May 4, 1975) was an American comedian best known as the leader of the Three Stooges, the farce comedy team who starred in motion pictures and television for four decades. His distinctive...
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| x Larry Fine |
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Three Stooges | 1925 | 1970 |
Larry Fine (October 5, 1902 – January 24, 1975) was an American comedian and actor, who is best-known as a member of the comedy act The Three Stooges.
Fine was born to a Jewish family as Louis Feinberg in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the corner of...
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| x Curly Howard |
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Three Stooges | 1932 | 1946 |
Jerome Lester "Jerry" Horwitz better known by his stage name Curly Howard (October 22, 1903 – January 18, 1952) was an American comedian and vaudevillian, best known as a member of the American slapstick comedy team the Three Stooges, along with his...
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| x Joe Besser |
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Three Stooges | 1956 | 1959 |
Joe Besser (August 12, 1907 – March 1, 1988) was an American comedian, known for his impish humor, and is now best remembered for his brief stint as a member of the Three Stooges in movie short subjects of 1956-57. He is also remembered for his...
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| x Curly Joe DeRita |
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Three Stooges | 1958 | 1975 |
Joe DeRita (July 12, 1909 – July 3, 1993), born Joseph Wardell, was an American comedian who is best known as Curly-Joe DeRita, the "sixth" member of the Three Stooges.
DeRita was born into a show-business family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
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| x Emil Sitka |
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Three Stooges | 1975 | 1975 |
Emil Sitka (December 22, 1914 – January 16, 1998) was a veteran American actor who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and is best known for his numerous appearances with the Three Stooges—nearly 40. He is one of only...
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| x Harpo Marx |
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Marx Brothers |
Arthur Adolph "Harpo" Marx (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964), born Adolph Arthur Marx, was the second-born of the Marx Brothers and a unique comic performer whose style was influenced by clown and pantomime traditions. He was well known by...
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| x Groucho Marx |
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Marx Brothers |
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit.
He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of which he was the third-born. He also had a successful...
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| x Gummo Marx |
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Marx Brothers |
Milton "Gummo" Marx (October 23 1893 - April 21 1977) was the fourth-born of the Marx Brothers. Born in New York City, he worked with his brothers on the vaudeville circuit, but left acting when he was drafted into the U.S. Army during World War I,...
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| x Zeppo Marx |
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Marx Brothers |
Herbert Manfred "Zeppo" Marx (February 25, 1901 – November 30, 1979) was the youngest of the five Marx Brothers. He appeared in the first five Marx Brothers films, but then left the act for a career as a theatrical agent.
There are different...
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| x Leonard Marx |
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Marx Brothers |
Leonard "Chico" Marx (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was the eldest of the Marx Brothers.
He was originally nicknamed Chicko for his reputation as a ladies' man, or a "chicken chaser" in the popular slang of the day. A typesetter accidentally...
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| x Rich Fulcher | Upright Citizens Brigade |
Rich Fulcher (born 18 November 1968, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) is an American comedy performer based in the United Kingdom. He is best known for being in the British comedy The Mighty Boosh, alongside comedy duo Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding....
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| x Neil Flynn |
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Upright Citizens Brigade |
Neil Richard Flynn (born November 13, 1960) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his role as Janitor in the medical sitcom Scrubs. He also currently portrays Mike Heck in the ABC sitcom The Middle.
Flynn was born in the south side of...
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| x Horatio Sanz |
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Upright Citizens Brigade |
Horatio Sanz (born June 4, 1969) is a Chilean-American comedian and actor, best known as a former cast member of Saturday Night Live.
Sanz, the youngest of three sons, was born in Santiago, Chile to Sylvia and Carlos Sanz. He grew up in the North...
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| x Amy Poehler |
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Upright Citizens Brigade |
Amy Meredith Poehler (born September 16, 1971) is an American actress and comedienne. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls alongside Tina...
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| x Matt Walsh |
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Upright Citizens Brigade |
Matthew Paul "Matt" Walsh (born October 13, 1964) is an American actor, writer and comedian.
Walsh was born in Chicago, Illinois and attended Hinsdale South High School, Northern Illinois University, and spent a year in Austria at Salzburg College....
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| x Ian Roberts |
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Upright Citizens Brigade |
Ian Roberts (born 31 July 1965) is an Australian former professional rugby league player of the 1980s and 90s who has since embarked on an acting career. Late in his career he announced he was gay, the first person to do so in the game's history,...
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| x Ali Farahnakian | Upright Citizens Brigade | ||||
| x Rick Roman | Upright Citizens Brigade | ||||
| x Adam McKay |
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Upright Citizens Brigade |
Adam McKay (born 1968) is an American writer, director and comedian.
McKay was born in Colorado, graduated from Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 1986, and attended Penn State and Temple universities. He is one of the founding...
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| x Matt Besser | Upright Citizens Brigade |
Matt Besser (born September 22, 1967) is an American actor and comedian known for his work as a member of the Upright Citizens Brigade, an improv/sketch troupe who also had their own sketch show on Comedy Central for 3 seasons. Later on he would...
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| x Andy Richter |
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Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter (born October 28, 1966) is an American actor, writer and comedian. He is best known for his sidekick role on Late Night with Conan O'Brien between 1993 and 2000. He is also known for his work with the Madagascar films, and...
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| x Vince Vaughn |
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Vincent Anthony "Vince" Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is an American film actor and comedian. He began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before experiencing wider recognition with the 1996 movie, Swingers. He has since...
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| x Bill Hader |
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iO |
William "Bill" Hader (born June 7, 1978) is an Emmy- and Peabody award-winning American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and repertory player on Saturday Night Live. He is also known for his supporting roles in numerous comedy films, starring in...
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| x Seth Meyers |
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Seth Adam Meyers (born December 28, 1973) is an American actor and comedian, currently serving as head writer for Saturday Night Live (SNL) and anchoring its weekly news sketch Weekend Update.
Meyers was born and raised in Bedford, New Hampshire,...
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| x Stephnie Weir | iO |
Stephnie Weir (born November 28, 1967), sometimes credited as Stephanie Weir, is an American actress and comedian. Weir is most notable for her membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv.
Weir was born in Odessa,...
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| x Angela Kinsey |
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iO |
Angela Kinsey (born June 25, 1971) is an American actress. She currently appears as the uptight accountant Angela Martin on the NBC television series The Office.
Kinsey was born in Lafayette, Louisiana. When she was two, her family moved to Jakarta,...
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| x Jack McBrayer |
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iO |
Jack McBrayer (born May 27, 1973) is an American actor and comedian. In 2006, he gained national exposure in the film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. He is best known for portraying Kenneth Ellen Parcell on the television series 30 Rock...
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| x David Koechner |
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iO |
David Koechner (pronounced /ˈkɛknər/; born August 24, 1962) is an American character actor (film, television and stage), comedian and musician.
Koechner began studying improvisational comedy in Chicago at the ImprovOlympic, under the teachings of...
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| x Kipleigh Brown |
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Kipleigh Brown is an American actress.
In addition to her film credits, which include the lead role in James Kerwin's sci-fi noir film Yesterday Was a Lie, she is also known for playing "Jane Taylor" on the television series Star Trek: Enterprise...
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| x Andy Dick |
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iO |
Andrew R. "Andy" Dick (born December 21, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, musician and TV/film producer.
Dick was born in Charleston, South Carolina and was adopted at birth by Sue and Allen Dick, a naval officer. As a child, he lived in...
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| x Nicholas Stoller |
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Harvard Lampoon |
Nicholas Stoller (born March 19, 1976) is an English-American screenwriter and director, born in London, England, and raised in Miami, Florida.
He is best known for directing the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall. He attended Harvard University...
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| x William Randolph Hearst |
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Harvard Lampoon |
William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate and leading newspaper publisher.
Hearst was born in San Francisco, California, to millionaire mining engineer George Hearst and Phoebe Apperson. Following...
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| x George Santayana |
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Harvard Lampoon |
George Santayana (December 16, 1863, Madrid, Spain – September 26, 1952, Rome, Italy), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States, wrote in English and is...
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| x John Reed |
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Harvard Lampoon |
John Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920), often referred to by his nickname, Jack, was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the...
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| x Robert Benchley |
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Harvard Lampoon |
Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his...
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| x William Gaddis | Harvard Lampoon |
William Gaddis (December 29, 1922 – December 16, 1998) was an American novelist. He wrote five novels, two of which won National Book Awards.
Gaddis was born in New York City to William Thomas Gaddis, who worked "on Wall Street and in politics," and...
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