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Monty Python
Monty Python (sometimes known as The Pythons) were a British comedy group that created the influential Monty Python's Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. Forty-five episodes were made over four series. The Python phenomenon developed...
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Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English writer, dramatist, and musician. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a ...
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Mike Myers
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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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...
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Harry Hill
Matthew Keith Hall (born 1 October 1964), better known as Harry Hill, is a triple BAFTA award-winning English comedian, author and television presenter. A former medical doctor, Hill began his career in comedy with the popular radio show Harry Hill...
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Don Hertzfeldt
Don Hertzfeldt (born August 1, 1976) is the creator of many short animated films, including the Academy-Award nominated Rejected and Everything Will Be OK. Collectively, his animated films have received over one hundred awards and have been...
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Matt Stone
Matthew Richard "Matt" Stone (was born May 26, 1971) is an American screenwriter, producer, voice artist, musician and actor, best known for being the co-creator of South Park along with creative partner Trey Parker. He is married to Angela Howard....
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Trey Parker
Trey Parker (born Randolph Severn Parker III on October 19, 1969) is an American animator, screenwriter, director, producer, voice artist, musician and actor, best known for being the co-creator of the television series South Park along with his...
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The Mighty Boosh
The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. Developed from three stage shows and a six episode radio series, it has since spawned a total of twenty television episodes for BBC Three and two live...
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Vic Reeves
Vic Reeves (b. 24 January 1959 as James "Jim" Roderick Moir) is an English comedian, best known for his double act, with Bob Mortimer (see Vic and Bob). He is known for his surreal and non sequitur sense of humour.
He supposedly derived the name Vic...
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David Walliams
David Walliams (born David Williams on 20 August 1971) is an English comedian, writer and actor, known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the sketch show Little Britain and its predecessor Rock Profile.
Born in Surrey on 20 August 1971 to Peter,...
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Fry and Laurie
Fry and Laurie are Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, a successful English comedy double act mostly active in the 1980s and 1990s. Having met in 1980 through mutual friend Emma Thompson (whilst all attended the University of Cambridge), Fry and Laurie...
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Shaun Micallef
Shaun Patrick Micallef (born 18 July 1962) is an Australian comedian, actor and writer. After ten years of working in insurance law as a solicitor in Adelaide, Micallef moved to Melbourne to pursue a full-time comedy career in 1993. He first gained...
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Lee and Herring
Lee and Herring were a British standup comedy double act consisting of the comedians Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. They were probably most famous for their work on television, most notably Fist of Fun and This Morning With Richard Not Judy but...
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Hans Teeuwen
Hans Eduard Marie Teeuwen (born 3 March 1967 in Budel, The Netherlands) is a Dutch comedian, actor and an occasional singer and director. His work can be described as absurdist, apolitical and confrontational.
In The Netherlands, Teeuwen became well...
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The Books of Knjige
The Books of Knjige is the name of the Montenegrin rock band and comedian troop from Cetinje, also known as TBOK, Booksovci or Buksovci. It has four members: Popaj (Aleksandar Radunović), Goran (Goran Vujović), Gajo (Veselin Gajović) and Zonjo ...
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The Penny Dreadfuls
The Penny Dreadfuls are a British sketch-comedy troupe consisting of comedians Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck. The sketch team perform regularly on the London comedy circuit.
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Robert Mac
Robert Mac (born Robert Matthew Matz on January 26, 1968) is an American comedian.
Robert Mac was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1968, but moved with his family to Tucson, Arizona in 1972. He graduated from Salpointe Catholic High School in 1986 and...
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