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Lewis Black
Lewis Black is an American stand-up comedian and actor born in 1948, known for angry rants on The Daily Show and for voicing Anger in Pixar's Inside Out.
Lotus Weinstock
Lotus Weinstock (1943–1997), born Marlene Weinstock, American stand-up comedian, author of The Lotus Position, Belly Room mainstay at the Comedy Store, engaged to Lenny Bruce, mother of violinist Lili Haydn.
Louie Anderson
Louie Anderson, born Louis Perry Anderson, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author who hosted Family Feud from 1999 to 2002 and won a 2016 Emmy for playing Christine Baskets on FX's Baskets.
Mario Cantone
Mario Cantone (born 1959, Boston) is an American comedian, impressionist, and Broadway actor, known as Anthony Marentino on Sex and the City and And Just Like That..., and for his Tony-nominated one-man show Laugh Whore.
Paul Mooney (comedian)
Paul Mooney (Paul Gladney, 1941–2021), American comedian, writer, and actor; Richard Pryor's longtime writing partner, SNL "Word Association" writer, Homey D. Clown and Negrodamus creator, memoirist of Black Is the New White.
Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone (born 1959) is an American stand-up comedian, NPR Wait Wait panelist, Nobody Listens podcast host, and Inside Out voice actor; first woman to host the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
Rich Hall
Rich Hall (born 1954) is an American stand-up comedian, author, and songwriter, creator of "sniglets" on HBO's Not Necessarily the News, Emmy winner for Letterman's morning show, 2000 Perrier Award winner as Otis Lee Crenshaw, and a UK-based touring comic.
Rich Vos
Rich Vos (born 1957, Plainfield, New Jersey) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, first white performer on Def Comedy Jam, third on Last Comic Standing season 1, married to Bonnie McFarlane.
Richard Jeni
Richard Jeni (Richard John Colangelo, 1957-2007), American stand-up comedian and actor from Brooklyn; Showtime and HBO specials including Platypus Man, CableACE winner, The Mask co-star, died by suicide in 2007.
Richard Lewis (comedian)
Richard Lewis (1947–2024), American stand-up comedian and actor nicknamed the Prince of Pain, star of Anything But Love and Larry David's foil on Curb Your Enthusiasm; specials I'm in Pain, I'm Exhausted, I'm Doomed.
Rita Rudner
Rita Rudner, American stand-up comedian, actress, and author from Miami; Broadway dancer turned clean one-liner comic; longest-running solo female comedy headliner in Las Vegas; married to writer-producer Martin Bergman.
Robert Schimmel
Robert Schimmel (1950-2010), American X-rated stand-up comedian, Howard Stern and HBO regular, Comedy Central's No. 76 greatest stand-up, author of the 2008 cancer memoir Cancer on $5 a Day.
Ron White
Ron White, known onstage as "Tater Salad," is an American stand-up comedian from Texas and a founding member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, begun in 2000.
Sam Kinison
Sam Kinison (Samuel Burl Kinison, 1953–1992), American stand-up comedian and former Pentecostal preacher, pioneer of screaming "rage comedy," Grammy-nominated for Louder Than Hell, killed in a 1992 car crash near Needles, California.
Sandra Bernhard
Sandra Bernhard, born 1955, American comedian, actress, singer, and author; breakout as Masha in Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), NSFC Best Supporting Actress winner, Roseanne's Nancy Bartlett, Pose's Nurse Judy, and pioneer of the modern one-woman cabaret-comedy show.
Shelby Chong
Shelby Chong, born Shelby Fiddis, is an American comedian, actress and producer, wife and stage partner of Tommy Chong; Cheech & Chong film actress and associate producer, opener on their reunion tours.
Sinbad (comedian)
Sinbad, stage name of David Adkins (born 1956, Benton Harbor, Michigan), is an American clean stand-up comedian and actor known for A Different World, HBO specials like Brain Damaged, films Houseguest and Jingle All the Way, and his 2026 comeback after a 2020 stroke.
Steve Martin
Steve Martin (Stephen Glenn Martin), American comedian, actor, writer, and bluegrass banjoist born 1945 in Waco, Texas; Disneyland performer turned stand-up's biggest 1978 concert draw, star of The Jerk and Roxanne, and co-creator of Only Murders in the Building.
Steven Wright
Steven Alexander Wright (born 1955) is an American deadpan one-liner comedian from the Boston scene, Grammy-nominated for I Have a Pony and I Still Have a Pony and winner of the 1989 Oscar for The Appointments of Dennis Jennings.
Susie Essman
Susie Essman (born 1955) is an American stand-up comedian and actress, Susie Greene in all 12 seasons of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000–2024), cast after a Jerry Stiller roast; also Bolt's Mittens, Broad City, Hacks, and a 2009 memoir.
Victoria Jackson
Victoria Jackson (born 1959, Miami) is an American comedian and actress, an SNL cast member 1986-1992 known for handstand-and-poetry bits and UHF, later a Tea Party commentator, author, and breast cancer advocate.