- John Belushi
John Adam Belushi (January 24 1949 - March 5 1982) was an Emmy Award-winning American actor, comedian and musician, notable for his work on "Saturday Night Live", "National Lampoon's Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers". - Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray (b. September 21, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor. He is perhaps most famous for his work in "Saturday Night Live", as well as for his comedic roles in films such as "Stripes", "Groundhog Day", "Caddyshack", "Ghostbusters" and "Rushmore", among many others. He has gained further acclaim for recent dramatic roles, … - Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian/American comedian, actor, screenwriter, and musician. He was an original cast member of "Saturday Night Live", an originator of the Blues Brothers (with John Belushi), and has had a long career as a film actor and screenwriter. - Tina Fey
Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American writer, comedian and actress. Fey currently co-produces, writes and stars in the television program "30 Rock", a sitcom loosely based on her experiences at "Saturday Night Live". - Mike Myers
Michael John Myers (born May 25, 1963, in Scarborough, Ontario) is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian-British comedian, actor, screenwriter, and film producer, best known for his comedy work in "Saturday Night Live" and film roles including the title characters of "Wayne's World", the "Austin Powers" series, and "Shrek". - Gilda Radner
Gilda Susan Radner (28 June, 1946 - 20 May, 1989) was an American comedian and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC comedy series "Saturday Night Live". Radner, who died at 42 of ovarian cancer, became an icon for public awareness of both detection and treatment of the disease. - Martin Short
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian/American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs "SCTV" and "Saturday Night Live". He has been nominated for an Emmy Award. - Chris Farley
Christopher Crosby Farley (February 15, 1964 - December 18, 1997) was an American actor and comedian. Farley was a cast member at Chicago's Second City Theatre and achieved his greatest fame as a cast member on the American sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live". He starred in a string of moderately successful comedic films in the 1990s before his death in late 1997. - John Candy
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 - March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Canada branch of "The Second City", often playing lovable losers and characters with bad luck but big hearts. His film roles were mostly comedic, such as his memorable characters in "Spaceballs", "Stripes", "The Blues Brothers", "Brewster's Millions", "Uncle Buck", "Cool Runnings", … - Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, satirist, actor and writer, known for his ironic style (particularly in his portrayal of uninformed opinion leaders), and for his deadpan comedic delivery. - Alan Arkin
Alan Wolf Arkin (born March 26, 1934) is an Academy Award-winning American actor and director. He is best-known for starring in such films as "Catch-22", "The In-Laws", "The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming", and "Little Miss Sunshine", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2007. He is the father of actor Adam Arkin. - Steve Carell
He was educated at the The Fenn School and Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, as well as Denison University in Granville, Ohio. ... Born August 16, 1962, Steve got his start as a correspondent on the TV program "The Daily Show with John Stewart ". He then branched out to star in the TV series "The Office". - Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy (born 17 December 1946) is a Canadian Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actor, television director, producer and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies and television movies. - Joe Flaherty
Joe Flaherty (June 21, 1941) is an American-Canadian comedian. He is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy "SCTV", from 1976 to 1984. He is currently a judge on The Second City's Next Comedy Legend. - Amy Sedaris
Amy Sedaris (born March 29 1961, in Endicott, New York) is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is the younger sister of humorist David Sedaris. They grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. - Catherine O'Hara
Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress and comedian. She is well known for appearing on the sketch show "SCTV", the roles as Delia Deetz in "Beetlejuice", Kate McCallister in "Home Alone", Sally in "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and in several films written and directed by Christopher Guest. - Del Close
Del Close, along with Keith Johnstone and Viola Spolin, is considered one of the premier influences on modern improvisational theater. An actor, improviser, writer, and teacher, Close had a prolific career, appearing in a number of films and television shows. He was a co-author of the book "Truth in Comedy" along with partner Charna Halpern, … - Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Lynn Hunt (born September 22, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer. - Andrea Martin
Andrea Martin is a Tony Award-winning American actor and comedienne. Martin was born in Portland, Maine, but her early success was found in Canada. One of her first prominent roles was as the bookish sorority sister Phyllis in the 1974 Canadian slasher film "Black Christmas". Two years later, she joined then-unknowns John Candy, Rick Moranis, Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara and Harold Ramis, among others, on the Canadian sketch comedy television series, … - Dave Thomas
David "Dave" Thomas (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian comedian and actor. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, but moved to Dundas, Ontario with his family where he attended elementary and secondary school. He attended Dundas District high school and graduated with honours from McMaster University in nearby Hamilton, Ontario. - Harold Ramis
I'm a Capricorn who enjoys listening to music, long walks on the beach, and watching the sunset. - George Wendt
George Robert Wendt (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor perhaps best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show "Cheers". - Dan Castellaneta
Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born September 10, 1958) is an Emmy award winning American voice actor and comedian best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the animated series "The Simpsons". - Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers is an American comedian, talk show host, businesswoman, and celebrity. She is known for her brash manner and loud, gruff voice with a heavy metropolitan New York accent. Rivers is the National Chairwoman of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and is a board member of God's Love We Deliver. Like the ground-breaking Phyllis Diller, whose career preceded and overlapped hers, Rivers' act relied heavily on poking fun at herself. - Robert Klein
Robert Klein (born February 8, 1942) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. - Elaine May
Elaine May (born Elaine Berlin on April 21, 1932 in Philadelphia) is a two-times Academy Award nominated director, screenwriter, and actress. She achieved her greatest fame, in the 1950s, from her improvisational comedy routines in partnership with Mike Nichols. - Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols (born November 6 1931) is an American Emmy Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Tony Award-winning stage and film director, writer, and producer. Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Berlin, Germany, he and his German-Russian Jewish family moved to the United States to flee the Nazis in 1939. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. While attending the University of Chicago in the 1950s, … - Tim Kazurinsky
Tim Kazurinsky is a comedian best known for performances on the NBC show "Saturday Night Live". Typically his characters were mousey, sheepish types. Kazurinsky started out in St. Louis, Missouri as a copywriter for a department store chain. He was a veteran of The Second City comedy troupe, and was a friend and something of a protegé of John Belushi, whose influence helped Kazurinsky get a spot on "SNL". Kazurinsky was a fairly versatile player on the show, … - Rick Moranis
Frederick Alan "Rick" Moranis (born April 18, 1953) is a Canadian actor, comedian and musician best known for his comedy work on "SCTV" and in film appearances such as "Ghostbusters", "Little Shop of Horrors", "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids", "Spaceballs", and "My Blue Heaven". He is known in the movie business as "Slick Rick" due to his ability to play the lovable dork to perfection in every movie. - Brian Doyle-Murray
Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945) is an American comedian, screenwriter and character actor from Chicago. Murray is the oldest brother of actors Bill Murray, Joel Murray and John Murray. Doyle-Murray uses his hyphenated name (Doyle is his grandmother's maiden name) because there is another actor with the same name. One of his sisters, Nancy, is an Adrian Dominican nun in Illinois. Murray has appeared in numerous films and television shows since the 1970s, … - Aurora Browne
Aurora Browne started her career in comedy when, on a whim, she signed up with a friend for an improv course. She was swiftly recruited by sketch troupe Urban Myth and began performing regularly in Toronto's thriving comedy scene. Her solo work began attracting attention and in 2000 she was hired by The Second City . During her three years with The Second City, Browne continued to be in demand outside of the troupe. - Ed Asner
Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American actor known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and later continued in a spinoff series, "Lou Grant". He is currently a recurring guest star as Wilson White on the television series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip". - 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 Steinberg
David Steinberg, born into a Jewish family August 9, 1940, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is a Canadian comedian, actor, director, writer and author. He was one of the best-known stand-up comics in the USA during the late 1960s and appeared on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" 140 times. Steinberg also directed episodes of many the most successful television comedies of the last fifteen years, including" Seinfeld", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Mad About You", … - Fred Willard
Fred Willard (born September 18, 1939) is an American comedian and character actor, known for his improvisational comedy skills. - Tim Meadows
Tim Meadows (born February 5 1961 in Highland Park, Michigan) is an American actor and comedian. Meadows' start in show business was as a member of The Second City comedy troupe alongside future star Chris Farley. In 1991, Meadows landed a spot on "Saturday Night Live" and would go on to become a longtime cast member, appearing on the program until 2000. (This was the record for the longest tenure on the show until it was surpassed by Darrell Hammond in 2005). - Sheldon Patinkin
Sheldon Patinkin is an author, teacher, and director. He is one of the founding fathers of The Second City and currently serves as the chair of Columbia College's Theatre Department, as well as being Artistic Consultant to The Second City and to Steppenwolf Theatre. - Viola Spolin
Viola Spolin (November 7, 1906 - November 22, 1994) is considered by many to be the American Grandmother of Improvisation. She influenced the first generation of Improv at the Second City in Chicago in the late 50's, as her son, Paul Sills, was one of the co-founders. Spolin developed new games that focused upon creativity, adapting and focusing the concept of play to unlock the individual's capacity for creative self-expression. - Paul Dinello
Paul Dinello (born November 28, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actor, writer, director, and an alumnus of Chicago-based The Second City, Improv Institute, and Annoyance Theatre. He is best known for his role on Comedy Central's "Strangers with Candy" as Geoffrey Jellineck, the closeted gay art teacher at Flatpoint High, who carries on a not-so-secret relationship with his colleague Chuck Noblet (Stephen Colbert). - Colin Mochrie
Colin Andrew Mochrie (born November 30, 1957) is a Canadian actor and improvisational comedian. He has over 25 years of performing experience.
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