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1740 comedians

Allan Sherman

Allan Sherman, an American who worked as a musician, comedian and television producer, gained fame in the early 1960s for his parodies of popular songs. His debut record, *My Son, the Folk Singer*, released in 1962, set a sales record as the quickest‑selling album ever at that point. The song that brought him the greatest notoriety was the humorous track “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh,” in which a youngster reports on his summer‑camp life using the melody of Ponchielli’s *Dance of the Hours*.

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Artie Lange

Arthur Steven Lange Jr. is an American comedian, actor and radio host, most recognized for his stints on Mad TV from 1995 to 1997 and on The Howard Stern Show between 2001 and 2009. A native of New Jersey, he initially took jobs as a longshoreman and cab driver to keep his family afloat after his father suffered paralysis. He first tried stand‑up comedy in 1987, and by 1992 he was on the road full‑time, honing his material in clubs throughout New York City.

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Brandon DiCamillo

Brandon DiCamillo, hailing from the United States, once worked as a television figure. As one of the original participants in the CKY collective, he featured in the CKY video releases and took part in MTV programs such as Jackass, Viva La Bam, and Bam’s Unholy Union.

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Caroll Spinney

Caroll Edwin Spinney, an American puppeteer, cartoonist, writer, visual artist and speaker, earned his greatest fame by bringing to life Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street, a job he performed from the show's launch in 1969 through 2018.

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Doug E. Doug

Doug E. Doug, an American actor, launched his entertainment career at 17 doing stand‑up comedy. He later took on the character Griffin Vesey in the CBS sitcom Cosby, played Sanka Coffie in the film Cool Runnings, and voiced Bernie in the animated movie Shark Tale.

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Eddie "Rochester" Anderson

Edmund Lincoln Anderson was an American performer and comic whose voice was famously raspy. For the cohort that followed early radio and television comedy, he became identified as “Rochester.”

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Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Livingston Kennedy, an American comic character actor, built a career that spanned at least five hundred movies from the silent era into the sound era. He performed under the name “Slow Burn,” a nickname earned for his skill in playing figures whose irritation gradually intensified in vexing situations.

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Mitch Mullany

Mitchell Paul Mullany was an American stand‑up comic, actor, screenwriter and author. He is chiefly recognized for his role as White Mike on the 1990s sitcom The Wayans Bros and for starring as Nick Freno in the series Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, both of which aired on The WB.

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Noah Munck

Born in the United States, Noah Bryant Munck works as an actor, musician and YouTube content creator. Audiences most often recognize him for portraying Gibby on Nickelodeon’s iCarly and the character “Naked” Rob Smith on ABC’s The Goldbergs. Besides his on‑screen work, he issues songs under the names Sadworldbeats and Noah Praise God and produces his own comedy sketches for YouTube.

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Ralph Waite

Ralph Waite, an American actor, earned his greatest recognition for starring as John Walton Sr. in The Waltons during its 1972‑1981 run, even directing a few episodes. In subsequent years he returned to television with recurring parts: he portrayed Jackson Gibbs, Leroy Jethro Gibbs’s father, on NCIS, and played Seeley Booth’s grandfather on Bones.

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Redd Foxx

Born John Elroy Sanford, he achieved fame under the moniker Redd Foxx as a U.S. stand‑up comic and film actor. His bawdy club routine brought him prominence both prior to and throughout the civil‑rights era. Dubbed the “King of the Party Records,” he appeared on upwards of fifty record releases. Foxx is remembered for playing Fred G. Sanford on the TV series Sanford and Son, and for headlining The Redd Foxx Show and The Royal Family.

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Wilford Brimley

Anthony Wilford Brimley, an American actor, began his adult life in the U.S. Marine Corps and took on assorted odd jobs during the 1950s. By the late 1960s he entered the film world as an extra and stunt performer on Western productions. In the 1970s and 1980s he solidified his reputation as a dependable character actor, appearing in movies such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984), Cocoon (1985) and its sequel Cocoon: The Return (1988). He was often cast in roles that seemed far older than his actual age. For many years he was the familiar face of Quaker Oats’ television advertising in the United States. He also advocated for diabetes education, starring in Liberty Medical commercials that eventually turned him into an internet meme.

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