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Bill Hicks
William Melvin "Bill" Hicks (December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994) was a seminal American stand-up comedian and social critic. His humor challenged mainstream beliefs, aiming to "enlighten people to think for themselves." Hicks used a ribald approach to express his material, describing himself as ...
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Denis Leary
Denis Colin Leary (born August 18, 1957) is an American actor, comedian, writer, and director. He is known for his often biting comedic style and his chain smoking. Leary is the star and co-creator of the television show Rescue Me now in its fifth...
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is an American singer-songwriter, raconteur, spoken word artist, writer, publisher, actor, radio DJ, and activist. After joining the short-lived Washington D.C. band State of Alert in...
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Margaret Cho
Moran "Margaret" Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, fashion designer, actress, author, gay icon, and recording artist. Cho is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems,...
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Eddie Izzard
Edward John "Eddie" Izzard (born 7 February 1962) is a two-time Emmy winning British stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy style is expressed in rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime. Izzard's works include standup sets...
George Carlin
George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian. He was also an actor and author, and he won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.
Carlin was noted for his black humor as well as his thoughts on...
Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American comedian, actor and longtime color commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Rogan is also known for his role as Joe Garrelli in NewsRadio and as host on the TV game/reality program Fear...
Lewis Black
Lewis Niles Black (born August 30, 1948) is an American stand-up comedian, author, playwright and actor. He is known for his comedy style which often includes simulating a mental breakdown or an increasingly angry rant, ridiculing history, politics,...
Dave Attell
Dave Attell (born January 18, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian and the host of Comedy Central's Insomniac with Dave Attell and The Gong Show with Dave Attell.
Born in Queens, New York, he grew up in Rockville Centre, New York and now lives in...
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Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, writer and actor.
Oswalt was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, to Carla and Larry J. Oswalt. He grew up in Sterling, Virginia and is a 1987 graduate of Broad Run High School in...
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Doug Stanhope
Douglas Gene Stanhope (born March 25, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian who currently lives in the small U.S.-Mexico border town of Bisbee, Arizona.
In 1967, Doug Stanhope was born in Worcester, Massachusetts where he lived until he was 18...
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Steve Hofstetter
Steve Hofstetter (born September 11, 1979) is an author, columnist and comedian, who started with material particularly pertaining to college life, and has since become a social commentator. He also hosted Four Quotas, which aired twice per week on...
Ron White
Ron White (December 18, 1956) is a Grammy Award-nominated American stand-up comedian from Fritch, Texas. He was a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, which helped elevate him to star status following the original Blue Collar tour and DVD release....
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Stephen Lynch
Stephen Andrew Lynch (born July 28, 1971 in Abington, Pennsylvania), is an American stand-up comedian, musician and Tony Award-nominated actor who is known for his songs mocking daily life and popular culture. Lynch has released two studio albums...
Russell Brand
Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, columnist, and presenter of radio and television.
Brand achieved mainstream fame in the UK for presenting a Big Brother spin-off, Big Brother's Big Mouth, and for his radio show,...
T. Sean Shannon
T. Sean Shannon is a comedy writer originally from Houston, Texas.
As a writer for Saturday Night Live he won an Emmy Award in 2002 (nominated in 2001 & 2003) and a WGA Award in 2001 (nominated in 2001, 2002 and 2003). He is the writer and creator...
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David Cross
David Cross (born April 4, 1964) is an American comedian, writer, and actor.
Cross was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Susi, a computer retailer. Six months later, Cross' family moved to Florida. After additional moves to New York and...
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Ron Bennington
Ron Bennington is an American radio personality and comedian. He is the primary voice of The Ron and Fez Show, and a stand-up comic. Ron and Fez can be heard Monday through Friday 11 AM to 3 PM EST on XM The Virus 202 and Sirius Radio's channel 197...
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Dean Obeidallah
Dean Obeidallah (Arabic: دين عبيدالله) is an Arab-American/Italian-American comedian, who was born in Lodi, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Paramus.. His father was born in Battir, Palestine- a small village near Bethlehem; his mother's parents...
Tom Rhodes
Tom Rhodes (b: January 14, 1967) is an American comedian famous from his time in the 90s as a long-haired spokesman for Comedy Central. He also starred in the NBC sitcom Mr. Rhodes and on The Kevin Masters Show starring Tom Rhodes.
One of the top...
Brad Stine
Brad Stine (born 1960) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author. Relatively unknown until 2003, Stine first gained exposure when he "came out" as a conservative Christian on his debut album, Put a Helmet On!
Stine was born and raised in...
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Kevin Moyers
Kevin Moyers is the creator and writer of the Septagon Studios comic book Scorn, which has received critical acclaim from respected sources such as Ain't It Cool News, Comics Bulletin, and ComicBloc. He is also the costar of many independent films,...
Charlie Moreno
Charlie Moreno (born November 8, 1978 in El Paso, Texas) is an American stand-up comic and an actor. His comedy routines are known for being dark and morbid, and often include humorous tales from his traumatic life.
Charlie is one of two children...
Andy Andrist
Andrew J. Andrist (born August 19, 1965 in Coquille, Oregon), is an American stand-up comedian and former writer for Comedy Central's The Man Show.
Andrist is also one of the original members of Doug Stanhope's comedy group known as The Unbookables....
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Randy Chestnut
Randall Jay Chestnut is an American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor.
He is noted for his wide-ranging subject matter, physicality, and sarcasm. Among other topics, he often focuses on American politics. Once, when asked what he'd do if he were...
Filmore Mescalito Holmes
Alan Ranta is a Canadian music journalist. One of the many professional rock critics, Ranta is known for his tersely-written capsule reviews and a focus on bringing North American attention to electronic sounds. He started contributing to Tiny Mix...
