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Rachel Kaly
Rachel Kaly: queer Middle Eastern American NYC stand-up comedian, writer, and actor; Too Far podcast co-host; creator of Hospital Hour (Chortle's #2 Show 2024, 2026 Off-Broadway run produced by Bob Odenkirk); Claire Coleman in Jury Duty; voice of Trisket in Digman!.
Ralph Barbosa
Ralph Barbosa (born 1996) is a Mexican American stand-up comedian from Dallas and Mesquite, Texas, known for laid-back delivery, the Netflix special Cowabunga (2023), the Hulu special Planet Bosa (2025), and his Formula Bean car YouTube channel.
Ralphie May
Ralphie May (Ralph Duren May, 1972-2017), American stand-up comedian, Last Comic Standing season 1 runner-up, four Comedy Central and two Netflix specials, died of cardiac arrest in Las Vegas at 45.
Redd Foxx
Redd Foxx (John Elroy Sanford, 1922–1991) was an American stand-up comedian, party-record pioneer with over 50 albums, and star of NBC's Sanford and Son (1972–77) as Fred Sanford, influencing Pryor, Rock, Eddie Murphy, and Jamie Foxx.
Rekha Shankar
Rekha Shankar (Rekha Lakshmi Shankar, born 1990) is an American comedian, writer, and actress from Philadelphia, host of Dropout's Smartypants, executive story editor on Grand Crew and Digman!, and maker of the indie film Vidhya's Guide to the Afterlife. Distinct from singers named Rekha on music platforms.
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.
Richard Pryor
Richard Pryor (1940–2005), American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Peoria, Illinois; five Grammys, first Mark Twain Prize, Live in Concert (1979), Blazing Saddles co-writer.
Ricky Velez
Ricky Velez, American stand-up comedian, writer, and actor from Queens, New York; known for the HBO special Here's Everything (2021), Oscar in The King of Staten Island, and The Nightly Show. Not the baseball pitcher Ricardo Velez.
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.
Rob Corddry
Rob Corddry (born 1971, Weymouth, Massachusetts) is an American actor and comedian, a Daily Show correspondent 2002–2006 and creator-star of the Emmy-winning Adult Swim parody Childrens Hospital, later in Hot Tub Time Machine, Ballers, and AMC's The Audacity.
Rob Delaney
Rob Delaney (born 1977) is an American comedian, actor, and writer, co-creator and co-star of Catastrophe with Sharon Horgan, known for Twitter fame, Peter W. in Deadpool 2, and the grief memoir A Heart That Works.
Rob Riggle
Rob Riggle (Robert Allen Riggle Jr., born 1970, Louisville, Kentucky) is an American actor and comedian, a retired Marine Corps Reserve lieutenant colonel, known for Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, The Hangover, and 21 Jump Street.
Robert Kelly (comedian)
Robert Kelly (born 1970), known as Bobby Kelly or Kells Bells, is an American stand-up comedian from Medford, Massachusetts. Known for Louie (Robbie), Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll (Bam Bam), the Kill Box special, and podcasts You Know What Dude? and The Bonfire.
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.
Rory Scovel
Rory Scovel, American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Greenville, South Carolina. Known for improvised stand-up, specials on Netflix, Max, and Comedy Central, and roles in Physical, Babylon, and Ground Floor.
Ross Bryant
Ross Bryant is an American comedian, improviser, and writer based in Los Angeles, known for The Improvised Shakespeare Company, Dropout shows, and Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Roy Wood Jr.
Roy Wood Jr. (Roy Norris Wood Jr., born 1978) is an American comedian from Birmingham, Alabama, a Daily Show correspondent 2015-2023, 2023 White House Correspondents' Dinner headliner, host of CNN's Have I Got News for You, and author of the memoir The Man of Many Fathers. Not the musician Roy Wood or the singer Roy Woods.
Sal Iacono
Sal Iacono, "Cousin Sal" (born 1971), American comedian, Emmy-winning writer, and attorney; cousin of Jimmy Kimmel, writer on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, host of Against All Odds podcast and FS1's Lock It In.
Sal Vulcano
Sal Vulcano, born Salvatore Edward Anthony Vulcano in 1976, is an American stand-up comedian and actor from Staten Island, best known as co-creator, executive producer, and star of truTV's Impractical Jokers.
Sam Hyde
Samuel Whitcomb Hyde, known as Sam Hyde, is an American comedian and writer born in 1985 who co-founded Million Dollar Extreme and created the livestream show Fishtank.
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.
Sam Morril
Sam Morril (born 1986, Chelsea, Manhattan) is a New York stand-up comedian with seven specials including Same Time Tomorrow (Netflix, 2022) and You've Changed (2024), co-host of the podcast We Might Be Drunk with Mark Normand, and a cameo player in Joker (2019).
Sam Tallent
Sam Tallent is an American stand-up comedian, novelist, and host of the Chubby Behemoth podcast, from Elizabeth, Colorado. Known for Running the Light, Brut, and the specials Waiting for Death to Claim Us and The Toad's Morale.
Sam Tripoli
Sam Tripoli (born 1973) is an American stand-up comedian and podcaster from Cortland, New York, a Comedy Store paid regular, host of Tin Foil Hat since 2016 and Punch Drunk Sports with Ari Shaffir.
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.
Sarah Cooper
Sarah Cooper, Jamaican-American comedian and writer, ex-Google UX designer, author of 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings, went viral in 2020 lip-syncing Trump on TikTok, leading to the Netflix special Everything's Fine.