List of comedians

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A comedian is one who entertains through comedy, such as jokes and other forms of humour.

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  • Eliot Jacobs (1980-)
  • Richard Jeni (1957-2007)
  • Denny Johnston (1945-)

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Groups of comedians

Comedy writers

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A comedian, or comic, is a performer who entertains an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting the fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy.
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In common, present day usage the word comedy almost always refers to the creation or presentation of humor with the intention of provoking laughter. Most comedy contains variations on the elements of surprise, incongruity, conflict, repetitiveness, and the effect of opposite expectations,
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Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh
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Roger Abbott (born July 10, 1946 in Birkenhead, England) is one of the stars of Royal Canadian Air Farce.

His many roles on the show include his well-known parodies of Jean Chrétien, The Queen Mother, Yasser Arafat, George W.
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Don Adams

Birth name Donald James Yarmy
Born March 13 1923(1923--)
New York, New York
Died September 25 2005 (aged 82)
Los Angeles, California
Resting place
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Chris Addison (born 1971, Manchester) is an English writer, stand up comedian, and actor, with a career that has spanned over a decade.

His BBC radio work includes the anthropological lecture series The Ape That Got Lucky
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Joe Alaskey (born May 26, 1949 in Watervliet, New York) is an Amercian actor, comedian, and voice artist, credited as one of the successors (including Billy West) of Mel Blanc in impersonating the voices of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other characters from Warner Bros. cartoons.
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Carlos Alazraqui

Carlos Alazraqui
Birth name Carlos Jaime Alazraqui
Born July 20 1962 (1962--) (age 45)
Yonkers, NY U.S.
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Jack Albertson

Albertson as Grandpa Joe in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Birth name Jonathan George Albertson
Born May 16 1907(1907--)
Malden, Massachusetts

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David Tynan O'Mahoney (July 6, 1936–March 10, 2005), better known as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian, popular in the United Kingdom and Australia in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Dayton Allen (September 24, 1919-November 11, 2004) was a comedian and voice actor. He was one of the "men in the street" on the Tonight Show hosted by Steve Allen.
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Fred Allen

Birth name John Florence Sullivan
Born May 31 1894(1894--)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died March 17 1956 (aged 63)
New York City, New York
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Gracie Allen (July 26, 1895<ref name="fn_1" />–August 27, 1964) was an American comedian who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns.
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Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen (December 26 1921 – October 30 2000) was an American musician, comedian and writer, the first host of "The Tonight Show," and instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show.
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Woody Allen

Birth name Allen Stewart Königsberg
Born November 1 1935 (1935--) (age 73)
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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Simon Marc Amstell (born 29 November, 1979) is an English comedian and television presenter. In 2007, Amstell was nominated for The Times Breakthrough South Bank Show Award.
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Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Portrait of Eddie Anderson as Rochester circa 1940.
Birth name Edmund Lincoln Anderson
Born September 18 1905(1905--)
Oakland, California
Died
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Louie Anderson (born March 24, 1953) is an American stand-up comedian. Louie has also created the cartoon series Life with Louie, has authored three books and was the third host of the game show Family Feud from 1999-2002.
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Aziz Ansari

Born January 23 1983 (1983--) (age 24)

Aziz Ansari (born on February 23, 1983) is an American stand-up comedian of South Indian Tamil heritage.
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Craig Ward Anton (born August 1962) is an American actor and comedian. Anton is most notable for being one of the original cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv and for his role as Lloyd Diffy in the Disney Channel Original Series
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Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, also known as Fatty Arbuckle (March 24 1887 – June 29 1933), was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. Arbuckle is noted as one of the most popular actors of his era, but he is best remembered for a heavily publicized
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Tom Arnold

Born March 6 1959 (1959--) (age 48)
Ottumwa, Iowa
Died

Awards
Golden Raspberry Awards
Worst Actor
1996
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Arthur Askey

Background information
Birth name(s): Arthur Bowden Askey
Date of birth: May 6 1900(1900--)
Birth location: Liverpool
Date of death:
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Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Atkinson
Birth name Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Born 6 January 1955 (1955--) (age 52)
Consett, County Durham, England


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Helen Atkinson-Wood (born 14 March 1955) is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Cheshire, and was a childhood friend of singer-songwriter Ian Curtis.
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Roy Atwell (1878 May 2 - 1962 February 6) was an American actor, comedian, and composer. He was educated at the Sargent School of Acting, and appeared in 34 films between 1914 and 1947.
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Joe Avati (born 1974) is an Italian-Australian comedian who is popular amongst Italians living in Australia (and also Canada, where he has performed his routine on several occasions).
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Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd at the 2005 Toronto Film Festival
Birth name Daniel Edward Aykroyd
Born July 1 1952 (1952--) (age 55)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Damali Ayo (b. February 26, 1972) is a conceptual and performance artist. Ayo's performances focus on race relations. She prefers her name in lower case.

Biography

Ayo was born in Washington, DC. She studied Public Policy and American Civilization at Brown University.
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