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Comedian
A comedian (comedienne is used sometimes if female) or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an...
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Ardal O'Hanlon
Ardal O'Hanlon (born 8 October 1965) is an Irish comedian and actor, best known for his roles in television sitcoms as Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted and George Sunday in My Hero.
O'Hanlon was born in 1965 in Carrickmacross, Monaghan, Ireland,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 8, 1965 (age 44 years)
Adam Carolla
Adam Carolla (born May 27, 1964) is an American radio and television host, comedian and actor. He is the host of The Adam Carolla Podcast, before which he hosted a weekday morning radio program broadcast from Los Angeles and syndicated by CBS Radio...
Date of birth:
- May 27, 1964 (age 45 years)
Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks (born July 22, 1947) is an American actor, writer, comedian and director. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1987 for his role in Broadcast News. His voice acting credits include as Marlin, the clownfish father in Finding Nemo...
Date of birth:
- Jul 22, 1947 (age 62 years)
Bill Oddie
William "Bill" Edgar Oddie, OBE (born 7 July 1941) is an English author, actor, comedian, artist, naturalist and musician, who first became famous as one of The Goodies.
A birdwatcher since his childhood in Birmingham, Oddie has now established a...
Date of birth:
- Jul 7, 1941 (age 68 years)
Billy Crystal
William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, film director, and baseball player. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film...
Date of birth:
- Mar 14, 1948 (age 61 years)
Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comedian actor and film director. Chaplin became one of the most famous actors as well as a notable filmmaker, composer and musician in the early to mid...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1889
Date of death:
- Dec 25, 1977 (age 88 years)
Chris Morris
Christopher Morris (born 5 September 1965 in Bristol) is an English comedian, writer, director, actor and former radio DJ.
Morris began his career in radio before moving into television. He found fame in the nineties fronting the spoof current...
Date of birth:
- Sep 5, 1965 (age 44 years)
Craig Charles
Craig Charles (born 11 July 1964) is an English actor, stand-up comedian, author, poet, radio and television presenter and former professional footballer, best-known for playing Dave Lister in the British cult-favourite sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf....
Date of birth:
- Jul 11, 1964 (age 45 years)
Christopher Guest
Nigel Tufnel (1948-) is the fictional lead guitarist of the rock band Spinal Tap featured in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. He is played by actor Christopher Guest.
Nigel's hobbies include collecting guitars; particularly noteworthy...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1948 (age 61 years)
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (March 2, 1917 - December 2, 1986) was a Cuban-born American musician, actor and television producer. He gained international renown for leading a Latino music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. But arguably, he is best known for his role as...
Date of birth:
- Mar 2, 1917
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1986 (age 69 years)
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...
Date of birth:
- Aug 18, 1957 (age 52 years)
Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian.
Born David Daniel Kaminsky to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Brooklyn, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He spent his early youth attending...
Date of birth:
- Jan 18, 1913
Date of death:
- Mar 3, 1987 (age 74 years)
Graham Chapman
Graham Arthur Chapman (8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989) was a British comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in...
Date of birth:
- Jan 8, 1941
Date of death:
- Oct 4, 1989 (age 48 years)
Harry Shearer
Derek Albion Smalls (born 1941) is a fictional character played by Harry Shearer. He is the bassist for mock British heavy metal group Spinal Tap. He co-starred in the hit spoof rockumentary This is Spinal Tap with guitarists Nigel Tufnel ...
Date of birth:
- Dec 23, 1943 (age 66 years)
Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 8, 1925
Date of death:
- Jun 27, 2001 (age 76 years)
John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (pronounced /ˈkliːz/; born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer who is known for being a member of Monty Python, the comedy troupe responsible for the sketch show Monty...
Date of birth:
- Oct 27, 1939 (age 70 years)
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director, singer and humanitarian. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, and recording and is also known for his...
Date of birth:
- Mar 16, 1926 (age 83 years)
John Belushi
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was a comedian, actor, and musician notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House, and The Blues Brothers. He was the older brother of James Belushi.
Belushi was...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1949
Date of death:
- Mar 5, 1982 (age 33 years)
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander (born September 23, 1959) is an American actor, comedian and singer, best known for his role as George Costanza on the television series Seinfeld.
Alexander was born Jay Scott Greenspan in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Jewish...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1959 (age 50 years)
Jay Leno
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American stand-up comedian and television host. From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. During his tenure, the show held the top ratings position in its...
Date of birth:
- Apr 28, 1950 (age 59 years)
Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (6 August 1911 – 26 April 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and Here...
Date of birth:
- Aug 6, 1911
Date of death:
- Apr 26, 1989 (age 77 years)
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 – November 5, 1960) was a Canadian -born Academy Award-winning director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy."
Born Michael...
Date of birth:
- Jan 17, 1880
Date of death:
- Nov 5, 1960 (age 80 years)
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962), born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer, and model.
After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led...
Date of birth:
- Jun 1, 1926
Date of death:
- Aug 5, 1962 (age 36 years)
Michael Palin
Michael Edward Palin, CBE (born 5 May 1943) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.
Palin wrote most of his material...
Date of birth:
- May 5, 1943 (age 66 years)
Mel Brooks
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies....
Date of birth:
- Jun 28, 1926 (age 83 years)
Michael Bentine
Michael Bentine CBE (26 January 1922 – 26 November 1996 ) was a comedian, comic actor, and founding member of The Goons.
Bentine was born Michael James Bentin in Watford, Hertfordshire, of Anglo-Peruvian parentage. and grew up in Folkestone, Kent,...
Date of birth:
- Jan 26, 1922
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1996 (age 74 years)
Mel Smith
Mel Smith (born 3 December 1952) is an English comedian, actor, film director, writer and producer.
Smith's father, Kenneth, was born in Tow Law, County Durham, and worked at a coal mine in the Second World War looking after the pit ponies. After...
Date of birth:
- Dec 3, 1952 (age 57 years)
Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29, 1936) is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms.
Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman...
Date of birth:
- Dec 29, 1936 (age 73 years)
Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 – 9 January 1995) was a British satirist, writer and comedian. An extremely influential figure within British comedy, he is widely regarded as the leading light of the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has been...
Date of birth:
- Nov 17, 1937
Date of death:
- Jan 9, 1995 (age 57 years)
Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld; August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, film producer and comedian, best-known for his character Pee-wee Herman. Reubens joined the Los Angeles troupe The Groundlings in the 1970s and started his career as...
Date of birth:
- Aug 27, 1952 (age 57 years)
Paul Whitehouse
Paul Whitehouse (born 17 May 1958) is a Welsh actor, writer and comedian. He became known for his work with Harry Enfield and as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show, The Fast Show. In a 2005 poll to find The Comedian's Comedian, he was...
Date of birth:
- May 17, 1958 (age 51 years)
Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers, (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty...
Date of birth:
- Sep 8, 1925
Date of death:
- Jul 24, 1980 (age 54 years)
Sid James
Sid James (born Solomon Joel Cohen; 8 May 1913 – 26 April 1976) was a South African, British-based actor and comedian, who made his name as Tony Hancock's co-star in Hancock's Half Hour and also starred in the popular Carry On films. He was known...
Date of birth:
- May 8, 1913
Date of death:
- Apr 26, 1976 (age 63 years)
Spike Milligan
Terence Alan Patrick Seán Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 - 27 February 2002), known as Spike Milligan, was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright. Milligan was the co-creator and the principal writer of The Goon Show, in which he also...
Date of birth:
- Apr 16, 1918
Date of death:
- Feb 27, 2002 (age 83 years)
The Wizard of New Zealand
The Wizard of New Zealand, QSM (born Ian Brackenbury Channell, December 4, 1932 in London) is an English-born New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician, who has become something of a national icon of New Zealand.
Ian Brackenbury...
Date of birth:
- 1932 (age 78 years)
Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1935 (age 74 years)
Kenneth Williams
Kenneth Charles Williams (22 February 1926 – 15 April 1988) was a British comic actor, star of 26 Carry On films, numerous television shows, and radio comedies with Tony Hancock and Kenneth Horne, as well as being a witty raconteur.
Kenneth Charles...
Date of birth:
- Feb 22, 1926
Date of death:
- Apr 15, 1988 (age 62 years)
Tony Hancock
Anthony John "Tony" Hancock (12 May 1924 – 24 June 1968) was a British actor and comedian.
Hancock was born in Southam Road, Hall Green, Birmingham, England, but from the age of three was brought up in Bournemouth, where his father, John Hancock,...
Date of birth:
- May 12, 1924
Date of death:
- Jun 24, 1968 (age 44 years)
Harry Enfield
Henry "Harry" Richard Enfield (born 30 May 1961 in Horsham, West Sussex, England) is a BAFTA winning British comedian, actor and writer, as well as working small-time as a director.
Enfield is the son of English television, radio and newspaper...
Date of birth:
- May 30, 1961 (age 48 years)
Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, author and media personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer...
Date of birth:
- Mar 21, 1962 (age 47 years)
Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome "Mel" Blanc (May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and comedian. Although he began his nearly six-decade-long career performing in radio commercials, Blanc is best remembered for his work with Warner Bros. during...
Date of birth:
- May 30, 1908
Date of death:
- Jul 10, 1989 (age 81 years)
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Noam Baron Cohen (Hebrew: סשה נועם ברון כהן, born 13 October 1971) is an English actor, comedian, and writer most noted for his comic characters Ali G (a pseudo 'urban' youth from suburban Staines), Borat Sagdiyev (a misogynistic, antisemitic...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1971 (age 38 years)
Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (19 April 1935 – 27 March 2002) was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.
Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as...
Date of birth:
- Apr 19, 1935
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 2002 (age 66 years)
Milton Berle
Milton Berle (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an Emmy-winning American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), in 1948 he was the first major star of US television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie...
Date of birth:
- Jul 12, 1908
Date of death:
- Mar 27, 2002 (age 93 years)
Barry Took
Barry Took (19 June 1928 – 31 March 2002) was an English comedian, writer and television presenter. He is best remembered in the UK for his weekly role as presenter of Points of View, a BBC TV programme in which viewers' letters criticising or...
Date of birth:
- Jun 19, 1928
Date of death:
- Mar 31, 2002 (age 73 years)
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born 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...
Date of birth:
- Jul 1, 1952 (age 57 years)
Lenny Bruce
Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous...
Date of birth:
- Oct 13, 1925
Date of death:
- Aug 3, 1966 (age 40 years)
Graeme Garden
David Graeme Garden (born 18 February 1943) is a British author, actor, comedian, artist and television presenter, who first became known as a member of The Goodies.
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Garden was educated at Repton School, and studied...
Date of birth:
- Feb 18, 1943 (age 66 years)
Marty Feldman
Martin Alan "Marty" Feldman (8 July 1934 – 2 December 1982) was an English writer, comedian and actor who starred in a series of British television comedy shows, including At Last the 1948 Show, and Marty which won two BAFTA awards. He also starred...
Date of birth:
- Jul 8, 1934
Date of death:
- Dec 2, 1982 (age 48 years)
Stanley Unwin
Stanley Unwin (7 June 1911 Pretoria, South Africa – 12 January 2002 Danetre Hospital, Daventry, Northamptonshire ), sometimes billed as Professor Stanley Unwin, was a British comedian and comic writer, and the inventor of his own language, "Unwinese...
Date of birth:
- Jun 7, 1911
Date of death:
- Jan 12, 2002 (age 90 years)
Terry Jones
Terence Graham Parry Jones (born 1 February 1942) is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director, children's author, popular historian, political commentator and TV documentary host. He is best known as a member of the Monty Python comedy...
Date of birth:
- Feb 1, 1942 (age 67 years)
Eric Idle
Eric Idle (born 29 March 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, writer and composer of comic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the British comedy group Monty Python.
Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham (now Tyne...
Date of birth:
- Mar 29, 1943 (age 66 years)
Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles "Ben" Elton (born 3 May 1959) is an English comedian, author, playwright and director. He was a leading figure in the alternative comedy movement of the 1980s, while more recently he has become known for his work as a novelist....
Date of birth:
- May 3, 1959 (age 50 years)
Drew Carey
Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American comedian, actor, photographer, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marines and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own...
Date of birth:
- May 23, 1958 (age 51 years)
Robin Williams
Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian.
Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980....
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1951 (age 58 years)
Eddie Murphy
Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, comedian and singer. He is the second-highest grossing actor in motion picture history. He was a regular cast member on Saturday Night Live...
Date of birth:
- Apr 3, 1961 (age 48 years)
Willie Rushton
William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton (18 August 1937 in Chelsea, London–11 December 1996 Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, London) was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye...
Date of birth:
- Aug 18, 1937
Date of death:
- 1996 (age 58 years)
Fats Waller
Fats Waller (May 21, 1904 - December 15, 1943) born Thomas Wright Waller was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer and comedic entertainer. He was the youngest of four children born to Adaline Locket Waller, wife of the Reverend Edward Martin...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1904
Date of death:
- Dec 15, 1943 (age 39 years)
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955 in New York City, New York) is an American actress, comedian , singer-songwriter, activist, and media personality.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a...
Date of birth:
- Nov 13, 1955 (age 54 years)
Leslie Nielsen
Leslie William Nielsen, OC (born February 11, 1926) is a Canadian actor and comedian. Although Nielsen's acting career crosses a variety of genres in both television and films, he has achieved his greatest film success as Commander John J. Adams in...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1926 (age 83 years)
