- Jay Leno
James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program "The Tonight Show". He also owns Big Dog Productions, a company that co-produces the show. He earns $30 million per year. - Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 - October 13, 1974) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the emcee of a popular TV variety show called "The Ed Sullivan Show" that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. - 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. - Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien (born April 18, 1963) is an Emmy-winning American comedian, writer and television personality best known as host of NBC's late-night talk/variety show "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". NBC has announced that O'Brien will take over for Jay Leno as host of "The Tonight Show" in 2009. - Marie Osmond
Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah) is an American actress, singer, and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's band, she gained success as a country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s. Her best known song is the 1973 country pop ballad "Paper Roses". Starting in 1976, Marie Osmond hosted a show with her brother called "Donny & Marie", which they both became best-known for. - Tony Orlando
Tony Orlando (born April 3, 1944) is an American singer best known for his time with the group Dawn in the early 1970s. Born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis to a Greek father and a Puerto Rican mother, he was raised in Manhattan's then-notorious Hell's Kitchen. Tony Orlando's musical career started with The Five Gents, a doo-wop group he formed. His first success came when he recorded the hits "Bless You" and "Halfway To Paradise" in 1961. - Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell (born 22 April 1936, Delight, Arkansas) is a Grammy Award, Dove Award winning American country pop singer and guitarist, best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a television variety show called "The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour" on CBS television. Campbell's hits include "Gentle On My Mind", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Witchita Lineman", "Southern Nights" and "Rhinestone Cowboy". - Downtown
is a Japanese comedy duo "(kombi)" consisting of and. Downtown is probably the most influential "kombi" to come from Yoshimoto Kōgyō, and is arguably the most popular "kombi" in Japan today. While best known for their stand-up act and their role as host of numerous Japanese variety shows (including the long running Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ), they also occasionally perform in movies and television drama, and in the past have even released music singles. - Ruth Buzzi
Ruth Buzzi (born July 24, 1936) is an American actress and comedian of theatre, film, and television. She is especially known for her performances on the comedy-variety show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" (1968-73). Buzzi was born in Westerly, Rhode Island, although she would later claim to have been born in Wequetequock, Connecticut - perhaps because it sounded funnier. She is the daughter of an Italian sculptor who specialized in making tombstones. - Steve Lawrence
Steve Lawrence is an American singer, perhaps best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé. The two have appeared together since appearing regularly on Steve Allen's "The Tonight Show" in the mid-1950s. - Don Francisco
Don Francisco is the artistic name of Mario Luis Kreutzberger Blumenfeld, a Chilean television host. He was born into a Chilean-German Jewish family; his parents had fled to Chile, escaping from Nazi persecution. As a youth, Kreutzberger traveled to New York to study to be a tailor, but he spent most of the time watching TV. Back in Chile, where TV was just beginning, Don Francisco started a TV show in 1962, and he named it "Sábados Gigantes". - Garry Moore
Garry Moore was born in Baltimore, Maryland as Thomas Garrison Morfit, and graduated from the Baltimore City College high school. A popular radio personality of the 1940s, he was a friendly, smiling television host on several programs during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, particularly game shows and variety shows. Starting in 1937, he worked for Baltimore radio station WBAL as an announcer, writer and actor/comedian. He used his birth name until 1940 when, … - Jim Nabors
James Thurston "Jim" Nabors to Fred and Mavis Nabors, is an American actor, singer, and comedian. He is best known for his portrayal of the good-hearted but naïve Gomer Pyle on two highly successful 1960s sitcoms, "The Andy Griffith Show" and its spinoff "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.". Given his goofy demeanor and high-pitched voice on both "Andy Griffith" and "Gomer Pyle", … - Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall (born Ralph Pierre LaCock, March 30, circa 1927, Huntington, West Virginia) is an actor, singer and television personality. Although he has almost fifty television, movie, and Broadway credits, he is best known as the original host and "The Master" of "The Hollywood Squares" from 1966 to 1981. His stage name, Marshall, came from the name of the college in his home town (Marshall College became Marshall University in 1961). - Joey de Leon
José María Ramos de León, better known simply as Joey de Leon is a Filipino comedian/TV host who is one of the popular hosts of the long-running noontime variety show "Eat Bulaga!". He is a member of the famous comedy trio Tito, Vic and Joey that has made several hit comedy movies and TV shows. Also known as a songwriter, Joey has penned some Filipino hit songs deemed as classics including "Ipagpatawad Mo" (Forgive Me), "Awitin Mo, … - Jeff Altman
Jeff Altman (born August 13, 1951) is an American stand-up comedian who has appeared as a guest on "The Late Show with David Letterman" 37 times, most recently October 28, 2006. He has also had numerous acting roles in movies and television, and is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Hughie Hogg on the popular television series "The Dukes of Hazzard". - Nora Aunor
Nora Aunor (born Nora Cabaltera Villamayor on May 21, 1953 in Iriga, Camarines Sur) is a multi-awarded Filipino actress, singer and producer. Aunor had several leading-role performances in stage plays, television shows, and concerts. She is also known as the Philippine one and only "SUPERSTAR". Considered by people masses, critics and contemporaries as the Philippine cinema greatest thespian and major icon of the century. - Dick Smothers
Richard "Dick" Smothers (born November 20, 1939) is an American comedian, composer and musician from New York, New York, now residing in Sarasota, Florida. Smothers is best known for being half of the musical comedy team The Smothers Brothers with his brother, Tom Smothers. Where Tom played the annoying dolt, Dick played the straight man trying to get through songs and acts without incident. The brothers graduated from Redondo Union High School in Redondo Beach, California, … - Jaye P. Morgan
Jaye P. Morgan (born Mary Margaret Morgan, December 3, 1931) is a retired popular American singer and game show panelist. - Ben Garant
Robert Ben Garant (alternately billed as Ben Garant) (born 14 September, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. Garant was born in Cookeville, Tennessee and grew up in Farragut, Tennessee. He has lived in New York City and lives with his wife Jennifer in Glendale, California. He is the co-creator of and writer for the television series "Reno 911!" in which he also plays the role of Deputy Travis Junior. - Yuri
Yuri has also received recognition for her appearances on many Korean variety shows, portraying a very cute image. Because she calls many other Korean male celebrities 오빠 ("older brother"), she has been criticized for not acting her age (as most of the other celebrities are in their early 20s). Once the Girl Friends' promotional schedule ended, she has taken a break. - Summers
Summers are a Japanese comedy duo under Horipro Inc., a large talent management company in Tokyo. Frequent guests on many Japanese variety and quiz shows, they are probably most famous as guests on the late night conte show, Uchimura Produce (Uchi-P). Along with Teruyoshi Uchimura and the rest of the show's guests, they are two members of the musical comedy group NO PLAN. - George Kirby
George Kirby (June 8, 1923 - September 30, 1995) was an American comedian, singer, and actor from Chicago, Illinois. He was one of the first African-American comedians to begin to appeal to white as well as black audiences during the height of the Civil Rights era, appearing between 1966 and 1972 on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dean Martin Show, The Jackie Gleason Show, "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In", and "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". - Richard Digance
Richard Digance (born 24 February 1949, in Plaistow, East London) is a comedian and folk singer. He studied Mechanical Engineering at Reid Kerr College Glasgow, during which time he was inspired by Billy Connolly. In the 1970's he toured The United States, though failing to make much of a name for himself, he ended up a support act for Steve Martin. - Roy Hudd
Roy Hudd, OBE (b. May 16 1936, Croydon, Surrey) is a British radio and television actor. He is also a playwright, author and music hall singer. He is best known for his very long-running radio series "The News Huddlines" and recently for his role as the undertaker "Archie Shuttleworth" in the ITV1 soap opera "Coronation Street". Hudd has written several books on music hall and Variety, … - Fred Newman
Fred Newman (born 1952 in LaGrange, Georgia) is an American actor, voice actor, composer, and sound effects artist, as well as a former talk show host. An alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Newman soon capitalized on his unique vocalizations, writing the book "MouthSounds" (first published in 1980, recently reprinted in an expanded edition). As a regular on the radio variety show "A Prairie Home Companion", … - Johnny Olson
John Leonard "Johnny" Olson (May 22, 1910 - October 12, 1985) was an American radio personality and television announcer, most notable for announcing 32 game shows from Mark Goodson-Bill Todman productions, from the late 1950s through the mid 1980s. Born in Windom, Minnesota, while landing jobs at WIBA and KGDA in and nearby Madison, Wisconsin after 1928, Olson enrolled in pharmacy classes at the University of Minnesota. He also worked a string of odd jobs, … - Frankie Vaughan
Frankie Vaughan, CBE (3 February, 1928-17 May, 1999) was a singer of traditional pop music in the United Kingdom. He was born Frank Abelson to a Jewish family in Liverpool, England. The name Vaughan came from a grandmother whose first grandson he was, who used to call Frank "my number one" grandson, in whose Russian accent "one" sounded like "Vaughan." In his early life, … - Othello
Othello, is a female Japanese comedy duo ("kombi") who, once famous for their manzai act, are now both popular television talents and appear frequently on Japanese variety shows. The two comedians, Tomoko Nakajima (中島 知子, born on 26 August, 1971), and Nahomi Matsushima (松嶋 尚美, born on 2 December, 1971) are sometimes known as black and white othello, respectively, perhaps because Nakajima has a much darker skin than Matsushima. - Irwin Corey
"Professor" Irwin Corey (born 29 July, 1914 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American comic and film actor whose slogan is "The World's Foremost Authority". He is credited with inventing his unscripted, improvisational style of stand-up comedy at Enrico Banducci's San Francisco club the hungry i. He was a frequent guest comic on variety shows and a guest panelist on game shows during the 1960s and 1970s. - Red Symons
Red Symons (born 13 June, 1949 in Brighton, England) is an Australian musician, writer, and radio host, probably best known as lead guitarist with the Skyhooks and as the snide judge of "Red Faces", segment of the long-running "Hey Hey It's Saturday" variety television show. He currently hosts 774 ABC Melbourne's breakfast show. Born in England, he emigrated to Australia (on the same boat as the members of the Bee Gees) at the age of 9, in 1958. - Rita MacNeil
Rita MacNeil, CM, (born May 28, 1944) is a Canadian country and folk singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island. Her biggest hit, "Flying On Your Own", was a crossover Top 40 hit in 1987 and was covered by Anne Murray the following year, although she has had hits on the country charts throughout her career. In the United Kingdom, MacNeil's song "Working Man" was a surprise #11 smash in 1990. - Masaki Sumitani
Masaki Sumitani aka (Heitor Shigueru) was born 18 December 1975 in Harima, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. After graduating from Higashi Kakogawa High School, he entered Doshisha University and majored in Commerce. While at college he picked up wrestling as a hobby, and soon joined the Doshisha Professional Wrestling Alliance (DWA). - Alice Pearce
Alicia "Alice" Pearce (October 16, 1917 - March 3, 1966) was an Emmy award winning American actress. Born in New York City, Pearce was educated in Europe and returned to the US as an adult. She began working in nightclubs as a comedian and was cast in the Broadway production of "On The Town". Gene Kelly was so impressed by her that she became the only cast member to be included in the film version in 1949. - Thomas D. Rice
Thomas Dartmouth (T.D.) "Daddy" Rice, was a comedian in the blackface form of comedy of the 19th century. Because he developed an immediately popular song-and-dance routine playing the role of an old black slave called "Jim Crow", he has also been called "father of American minstrelsy". "Daddy" Rice was born in New York City. His act included the song and dance "Jump Jim Crow" which would later give its name to "Jim Crow" segregation laws in the southern United States. - Dannah Feinglass
Dannah Feinglass (born April 22 1975 in Port Washington, New York) is an improvisational comic and actress. She was a member of Respecto Montalban, a long-running improv team at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Feinglass taught sketch comedy writing there, and also performed in two-person shows like "Eye Candy" (with Danielle Schneider), which went to the 2002 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and "Paddington Station" (with Paul Scheer), … - Asia Agcaoili
Asia Agcaoíli is a Filipino actress, model, sex columnist of FHM Philippines and TV and radio host. - Gordon Keith
Gordon Keith (aka The Great Gordo) is a radio host on the three-time Marconi-nominated "Dunham and Miller" morning show on KTCK Sports Radio 1310 AM "The Ticket" in Dallas, Texas. He has shared hosting duties (but not the billing) with George Dunham and Craig "Junior" Miller since 1995. His role on the show is a non-traditional one that includes providing comedy relief and thoughtful observations. - Dave Guard
Dave Guard (19 October 1934 - 22 March 1991) American Folk Singer, Songwriter, Arranger and Recording Artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane were the original founding members of The Kingston Trio. Guard was educated in Honolulu at Punahou School in what was then the pre-statehood U.S. Territory of Hawaii. Upon completing of his final year of high school in 1952 at Menlo School, a private prep school in Menlo Park, California, … - Kerri Kenney-Silver
Kerri Kenney-Silver (born January 20, 1970) is an American actress, singer, and writer. Kenney-Silver was born in Westport, Connecticut, USA, to Sharon and Larry Kenney, an actor who is known for his classic voice-over work. She has a sister, Ashley, and a brother, Tanner. During the early 1990s, Kenney-Silver joined with an improv comedy group The State. The group was picked up for a self-titled sketch comedy show on MTV, "The State", …
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