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| x Milton Berle |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
Milton Berle (July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an Emmy-winning American comedian and actor. As the manic host of NBC's Texaco Star Theater (1948–55), in 1948 he was the first major star of US television and as such became known as Uncle Miltie...
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| x Jerry Lewis |
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Arizona Dream | Leo Sweetie |
Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director, singer and humanitarian. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, screen, television, radio, recording and is also known for his...
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| x Don Rickles |
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Casino |
Donald Jay "Don" Rickles (born May 8, 1926) is an American comedian and actor. A frequent guest on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Rickles has acted in comedic and dramatic roles, but is best known as an insult comic. However, unlike many...
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| x Buddy Hackett |
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God's Little Acre |
Buddy Hackett (August 31, 1924 – June 30, 2003) was an American comedian and actor. In his later life, he and his wife set up the Singita Animal Sanctuary in the San Fernando Valley, California.
Buddy Hackett was born Leonard Hacker in Brooklyn, New...
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| The Music Man | Marcellus Washburn | ||||
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| x Rodney Dangerfield |
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Ladybugs |
Rodney Dangerfield (November 22, 1921 – October 5, 2004), born Jacob Cohen, was an American comedian and actor, best known for the catchphrases "I don't get no respect" or "I get no respect" and his monologues on that theme.
Dangerfield was born on...
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| Back by Midnight | |||||
| Back to School | |||||
| Casper: A Spitited Beginning | |||||
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| x Danny Kaye |
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Here Comes Peter Cottontail |
Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer and comedian.
Born David Daniel Kaminsky to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants in Brooklyn, Kaye became one of the world's best-known comedians. He spent his early youth attending...
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| The Court Jester | Hubert Hawkins | ||||
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| x Lenny Bruce |
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Lenny Bruce (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an American stand-up comedian, writer, social critic and satirist of the 1950s and 1960s. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous...
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| x Sid Caesar |
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History of the World, Part I |
Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an American comic actor and writer known as the leading man on the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2...
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| x Jan Murray | Which Way to the Front? |
Jan Murray (October 4, 1916 - July 2, 2006) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and game show host who made his name on the Borscht Belt.
Murray was born Murray Janofsky in The Bronx, New York City. His interest in comedy began during his...
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| Tarzan and the Great River | |||||
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| x Red Buttons |
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Harlow |
Red Buttons (February 5, 1919 – July 13, 2006) was an American comedian and actor.
Red Buttons was born Aaron Chwatt on February 5, 1919 in New York City to Jewish immigrants. At sixteen years old, Buttons got a job as an entertaining bellhop at...
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| x Norm Crosby |
Norm Crosby (born September 15, 1927) is a comedian sometimes associated with the Borscht Belt, but often seen on television in the 1970s. He is best known for his use of malapropisms, and is often called "The Master of Malaprop."
Born in Boston, he...
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| x Henny Youngman |
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The Gore Gore Girls |
Henry "Henny" Youngman (March 16, 1906 – February 24, 1998) was a British-born comedian and violinist famous for "one-liners," short, simple jokes usually delivered rapid-fire. His best known (and oft misattributed) one-liner was "Take my wife...
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| x Jackie Vernon |
Jackie Vernon (March 29, 1924 – November 10, 1987) was an American stand-up comedian, actor and voice artist.
Born Ralph Verrone, Vernon was known for his gentle, low-key delivery and self-deprecating humor. He has been hailed as "The King of...
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| x Jonathan Winters |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World |
Jonathan Harshman Winters III (born November 11, 1925) is an American comedian and actor.
Winters was born in Bellbrook, Ohio, the son of Alice Kilgore (née Rodgers), a radio personality, and Jonathan Harshman Winters II, an investment broker. He is...
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| The Thief and the Cobbler | |||||
| Viva Max! | |||||
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| x Shecky Greene | History of the World, Part I |
Shecky Greene (born Sheldon Greenfield, on April 8, 1926) is a comedian known for his nightclub performances in Las Vegas, where he has been a headliner for more than 30 years. He has appeared in several films, including History of the World, Part I...
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| Splash | Mr. Buyrite | ||||
| x Shelley Berman |
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The Holiday |
Sheldon Leonard "Shelley" Berman (born February 3, 1926) is an American comedian, writer, teacher, and actor.
Berman was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Irene (née Marks) and Nathan Berman. His early years were filled with dreams of the stage....
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| x George Burns |
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A Damsel in Distress |
George Burns (January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
His career spanned vaudeville, film, radio, and television, with and without his wife, Gracie Allen. His arched eyebrow and cigar...
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| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | |||||
| We're Not Dressing | |||||
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| x Bill Dana |
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I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now? |
Bill Dana (born October 5, 1924) is an American comedian, actor, and screenwriter. He often appeared on television shows such as The Ed Sullivan Show, frequently in the guise of a heavily-accented Mexican character named José Jiménez. Dana often...
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| x Phyllis Diller |
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The Fat Spy |
Phyllis Diller (born Phyllis Ada Driver; July 17, 1917) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and comedienne, considered one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage persona of a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed...
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| Happily Ever After | |||||
| Mad Monster Party | |||||
| The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell | |||||
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| x Joey Adams |
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Joey Adams (January 6, 1911 – December 2, 1999), born Joseph Abramowitz, was an American comedian who was inducted into the Friars Club in 1977 and wrote the book Borscht Belt in 1973.
Adams was born in Brooklyn, New York. For many years, he wrote...
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| x Woody Allen |
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy |
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have...
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| Annie Hall | Alvy Singer | ||||
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| x Morey Amsterdam |
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Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol | Voice |
Morey Amsterdam (December 14, 1908 – October 27, 1996) was an American television actor and comedian. He played the role of Buddy Sorrell on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the early 1960s.
Amsterdam was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Austrian...
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| Muscle Beach Party | |||||
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| When Nature Calls | |||||
| x Mel Brooks |
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It | Abraham Van Helsing |
Melvin "Mel" Kaminsky (born June 28, 1926), better known by his stage name Mel Brooks, is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer, best known as a creator of broad film farces and comic parodies....
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| x Jack Carter |
Jack Carter (born Jack Chakrin on June 24, 1923 in New York City, New York) is a Jewish-American comedian, actor and host.
Carter's only Broadway appearance was opposite Sammy Davis, Jr. in the 1956 musical Mr. Wonderful. He was a frequent guest on...
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| x Mickey Katz |
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Mickey Katz (June 15, 1909 Cleveland, Ohio - April 30, 1985 Los Angeles, California) was an American entertainer and father of actor Joel Grey and grandfather of actress Jennifer Grey.
Katz was a comedian and musician who specialized in Jewish humor...
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| x Alan King |
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Cat's Eye | Vinnie Donatti |
Alan King (December 26, 1927 – May 9, 2004) was an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well-known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He was also a serious actor who appeared in a number of...
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| Author! Author! | |||||
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| Alan King: Inside the Comedy Mind: Gold Collection | |||||
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| x Jack E. Leonard |
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Jack E. Leonard (April 24, 1910 – May 10, 1973) was an American comedian who made frequent appearances on television variety and game shows.
Leonard's birth name was Leonard Lebitsky and he was sometimes called Fat Jack. As was the case with many...
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| x Jackie Mason |
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The Jerk |
Jackie Mason (born June 9, 1936) is an American stand-up comedian.
Born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, he grew up in New York City on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Mason graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the City College...
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| A Cantor's Tale | |||||
| Caddyshack II | |||||
| The Stoolie | |||||
| x Freddie Roman |
Freddie Roman (born Fred Kirschenbaum 1937 in Jamaica, Queens, New York)
Jewish-American Stand-up comedian, and king of one-liners, best known for his frequent appearances at "Borscht Belt" hotels. He is currently the Dean of the New York Friars'...
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