- Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart is a nine-time Emmy-winning American comedian, satirist, actor, writer, author, and producer. He is perhaps best known as the host of Comedy Central’s "The Daily Show" and for his political satire. Stewart started off as a stand-up comedian but later moved on to television, hosting "Short Attention Span Theater" for Comedy Central. He then went on to host his own show on MTV, called "The Jon Stewart Show". - Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947 or 1948) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC dramedy, "Soap", and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes "When Harry Met Sally..." and "City Slickers". - Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and currently the Emmy Award-winning host of the syndicated talk show "The Ellen DeGeneres Show". - Chris Rock
Christopher Julius Rock III (born February 7, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer and director. He was described by Comedy Central as the fifth greatest stand-up comedian of all time. - David Letterman
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series 1994 "Late Show with David Letterman"David Michael Letterman (born April 12, 1947, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an award-winning American comedian, late night talk show host, television producer, philanthropist, and IRL IndyCar Series car owner. His first major success occurred on the long-running NBC television program, "Late Night with David Letterman", … - Steve Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, writer, producer, actor, musician and composer. - Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson, November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedian and radio DJ. Goldberg is one of only ten individuals who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award, counting Daytime Emmy Awards. She is the second African American female performer to win an Academy Award for acting (the first being Hattie McDaniel); she has also won two Golden Globe Awards. - Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. He has had starring roles on television, stage, and film, and has won an Academy Award. - Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 - January 23,2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". - Bob Hope
Bob Hope, KBE (May 29 1903 - July 27 2003), was an English-born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. - Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor III (December 1, 1940 - December 10, 2005) was an American comedian, actor, and writer. Pryor was a storyteller known for unflinching examinations of racism and customs in modern life, and was well-known for his frequent use of colorful language, vulgarities, as well as such racial epithets as "nigga", "honky," "cracker" and "motherfucker." He reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations, … - Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. The Academy Awards honored him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000, presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson, while in 2004 he received a Kennedy Center Honor. In 2007, he was honored with the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony. - Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn 's illustrious career encompasses film, stage, and television. In 1975, she became only the third woman in history to win both the Tony Award and the Academy Award in the same year, for her work in Bernard Slade 's Same Time, Next Year on Broadway and in Martin Scorsese 's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore," for which she also received a Golden Globe nomination and a British Academy Award for Best Actress. - Jack Lemmon
John Uhler Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 - June 27, 2001), better known as Jack Lemmon, was a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. - Will Rogers
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers (November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935) was an American comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer, and actor. He has been named Oklahoma's favorite son. - Sammy Davis Jr.
Samuel George Davis, Jr., better known as Sammy Davis, Jr. (December 8, 1925 - May 16, 1990) was an American entertainer. He was a dancer, singer, multi-instrumentalist (playing vibraphone, trumpet, and drums), impressionist, comedian, and actor. He was a member of the 1960s Rat Pack, which was led by his old friend Frank Sinatra, and included such fellow performers as Dean Martin and Peter Lawford. - Chevy Chase
Chevy Chase (born October 8 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase became a sensation as a cast member in the inaugural season of "Saturday Night Live". He also hosted the Academy Awards twice(1987 and 1988) and briefly had his own late-night talk show. - Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actress, well-known not only for her acting, but for her devotion to her belief in reincarnation. She is also the writer of a large number of autobiographical works, many dealing with her new age beliefs, such as solipsism, as well as her Hollywood career. She is the older sister of Warren Beatty. - Goldie Hawn
Goldie Jeanne Hawn (born November 21 1945) is an Academy Award-winning American actress, director and producer. She is best known for starring in a series of successful film comedies during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Her daughter is Kate Hudson, who is also a well-known, Oscar-nominated actress. Her son, Oliver Hudson, is a television and film actor as well. - Michael Caine
Sir Maurice Joseph Micklewhite CBE (born March 14, 1933), known professionally as Michael Caine, is a two-time Academy Award-winning English film actor. - Dudley Moore
Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE (April 19, 1935 - March 27, 2002), was an Academy-Award nominated English actor, comedian and musician. Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in "Beyond the Fringe" in the early 1960s and became increasingly famous as half of the double-act he formed with Peter Cook. - Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born on March 16, 1926, according to most sources), is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer and director known for his slapstick humor and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Jerry Lewis has won many prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards from The American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, The Venice Film Festival and he has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. - Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, jazz, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. - Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1924 – April 5, 2008[1][2]) was an American Academy Award-winning film actor. In a long career, Heston was known for playing heroic roles, such as Harry Steele in Secret of the Incas , Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur. - Liza Minnelli
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of legendary entertainer Judy Garland and her second husband, acclaimed film director Vincente Minnelli (who was of Italian and French descent). - Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (22 May 1907 - 11 July 1989) was an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and four-time Emmy winning English actor, director, and producer. Olivier's Academy acknowledgments are considerable—fourteen Oscar nominations, with two wins for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film "Hamlet", and two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. - Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with "Monster in Law", … - James Stewart
James Maitland Stewart (May 20, 1908 - July 2, 1997) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his self-effacing screen persona. Over the course of his career, he starred in many films widely considered classics and was nominated for five Oscars, winning one in competition and one life achievement. He also had a noted military career, rising to the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Air Force. - Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 - October 2, 1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his splendid, virile looks and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Hudson was voted "Star of the Year," "Favorite Leading Man," or any number of similar titles by numerous movie magazines and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. - Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 - July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American comedy actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple" and his frequent collaborations with fellow "Odd Couple" star Jack Lemmon. - Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 - June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of seventy-six years, during which he made thirty-one musical films. He is particularly associated with Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films that revolutionized the genre. - Alan Alda
Alan Alda (b. January 28, 1936) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series "M*A*S*H". During the 1970s and 1980s he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent years he has appeared in roles which counter that image. - David Niven
David Niven was an Academy Award-winning British actor. - Jack Benny
Jack Benny (February 14 1894 in Chicago, Illinois - December 26 1974 in Beverly Hills, California), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality. Benny was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, … - Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is a five-time Golden Globe winning American actress and comedienne. In a career spanning five decades in television, stage and film, she is best known for her eponymous variety show that ran on CBS from 1967 through 1978. - Mort Sahl
Morton Lyon Sahl (born May 11, 1927 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is an American comedian and actor. He is credited with pioneering a style of stand-up comedy that paved the way for Lenny Bruce, Nichols & May and Dick Gregory. He also wrote speeches for John F. Kennedy. - Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds (born Burton Reynolds Jr. on February 11, 1936) is an Oscar-nominated Emmy Award-winning American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Lewis Medlock in "Deliverance", Paul Crewe in the original version of "The Longest Yard", Bo 'Bandit' Darville in "Smokey and the Bandit", J.J. McClure in "The Cannonball Run" and Jack Horner in "Boogie Nights". - Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 - July 30, 1996) was an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American actress of film, theater and television. She was acclaimed for her performances in screwball comedies as well as dramatic roles. She received Academy Award nominations in both film genres. - Gene Kelly
Eugene Curran Kelly, better known as Gene Kelly, was an American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer, and choreographer. Kelly was a major exponent of 20th century filmed dance, known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks and the likeable characters that he played on screen. Although he is probably best known today for his performance in "Singin' in the Rain", …
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