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Dario Fo
Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, and director (1926-2016), winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature; with Franca Rame he created Mistero buffo and Accidental Death of an Anarchist, using grammelot and the medieval giullare tradition to satirize Italian power.
Darragh Hand
Darragh Hand is an Irish stage and television actor who trained at the London College of Music. He is known for his role in For Black Boys (2021).
Darrell Hammond
Darrell Hammond (born 1955) is an American comedian and impressionist, an SNL cast member 1995–2009 with over 100 celebrity impressions, its announcer since 2014, and author of a 2011 abuse-and-addiction memoir.
Dave Allen (comedian)
Dave Allen (David Tynan O'Mahony, 1936–2005), Irish sit-down stand-up comedian and satirist, star of Dave Allen at Large, famed for whiskey-and-cigarette monologues skewering the Catholic Church, his missing half finger, and the sign-off "May your god go with you".
Dave Attell
Dave Attell, New York stand-up comedian and "comedian's comedian"; creator of Comedy Central's Insomniac; SNL writer, Daily Show Ugly American commentator, Bumping Mics with Jeff Ross, 2024 Netflix special Hot Cross Buns.
Dave Chappelle
Dave Chappelle (David Khari Webber Chappelle, born 1973, Washington, D.C.) is an American stand-up comedian and actor, star of Chappelle's Show (2003), who quit a $50 million deal in 2005, returned via Netflix specials, and holds six Best Comedy Album Grammys.
Dave Coulier
Dave Coulier (born 1959) is an American comedian and actor, Joey Gladstone on Full House and Fuller House, voice of Animal and Peter Venkman, host of Out of Control; treated for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and HPV-related tongue cancer, in remission since 2026.
Dave Gorman
Dave Gorman (born 1971, Stafford) is an English comedian and writer known for Are You Dave Gorman?, Googlewhack Adventure, America Unchained, and the PowerPoint stand-up series Modern Life Is Goodish on Dave.
Dave Hughes
Dave 'Hughesy' Hughes (born 1970, Warrnambool) is an Australian stand-up comedian, radio host, and TV presenter; Perkins started in Perth in 1993, co-hosted The Project, Nova breakfast radio, and tours the 2026 show Cooked.
Dave Malloy
Dave Malloy, American composer-writer-performer of musicals including Great Comet (12 Tony nominations), Ghost Quartet, Preludes, Octet, and Moby-Dick; New York-based, three OBIEs, collaborates with Rachel Chavkin.
Dave Smith (comedian)
Dave Smith is an American stand-up comedian and libertarian political commentator known for hosting the podcast Part of the Problem and co-hosting Legion of Skanks.
David Alvarez (actor)
David Alvarez (born 1994, Montreal) is a Canadian dancer-actor, one of the three original Billys of Broadway's Billy Elliot and a joint 2009 Tony winner, later Bernardo in Spielberg's West Side Story (2021), Isaac English in American Rust, and Gael Rodriguez in Étoile (2025).
David Baddiel
David Baddiel (born 1964, Troy, New York) is a British comedian, author and TV presenter, half of Newman and Baddiel, the first comedy act to sell out Wembley Arena, co-writer of Three Lions, and author of Jews Don't Count.
David Blaine
David Blaine (born David Blaine White, 1973) is an American magician and endurance performer whose 1997 ABC special Street Magic reinvented televised magic, followed by stunts like Buried Alive, Frozen in Time, and 44 days above the Thames.
David Brenner
David Brenner (1936-2014), American stand-up comedian and former documentary filmmaker, pioneer of observational comedy and record-setting Tonight Show guest who influenced Jerry Seinfeld and Jay Leno.
David Copperfield (illusionist)
David Copperfield, stage name of David Kotkin (born 1956), American illusionist famous for CBS television specials vanishing the Statue of Liberty and a Lear jet, and a 25-year MGM Grand Las Vegas residency ending April 2026.
David Cross
David Cross is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer born in 1969 in New Jersey, known for co-creating Mr. Show and playing Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development.
David Cumming (actor)
David Cumming is an English actor, writer, and composer. He is known for his work with the comedy company SpitLip and his role in the musical Operation Mincemeat.
David Haig
David Haig, English actor and playwright trained at LAMDA, Olivier winner for Our Country's Good (1988); wrote and starred in My Boy Jack, Pressure (D-Day weather forecaster James Stagg), and Magic about Conan Doyle and Houdini.
David Hare (playwright)
Sir David Hare (born 1947) is a British playwright and director known for post-war political drama: Portable Theatre co-founder, Plenty, the Racing Demon trilogy, Skylight, Stuff Happens; knighted 1998, Oscar-nominated for The Hours.
David Mamet
David Mamet is an American playwright and director known for his stylized use of vernacular speech. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984 for Glengarry Glen Ross.
David Mitchell (comedian)
David Mitchell (born 1974, Salisbury) is a British comedian, actor, and writer, one half of Mitchell and Webb with Robert Webb. Known for Peep Show's Mark Corrigan, That Mitchell and Webb Look (BAFTA 2007), Would I Lie to You? team captain since 2007, Upstart Crow, and the BBC hit Ludwig (2024).
David O'Doherty
David O'Doherty (born 1975, Dublin) is an Irish musical comedian, author, and TV host, winner of the 2008 Edinburgh Comedy Award for Let's Comedy and writer of the Danger Is Everywhere children's books.
David Pasquesi
David Pasquesi (born 1960, Chicago) is an American actor and improviser, half of the duo TJ and Dave, a Second City alumnus trained by Del Close, with roles in Groundhog Day, Veep, The Book of Boba Fett, She-Hulk, and Lodge 49.
David Rabe
David Rabe (born 1940, Dubuque, Iowa) is an American playwright and screenwriter, Vietnam veteran, author of the Vietnam trilogy Pavlo Hummel, Sticks and Bones, Streamers, and Hurlyburly.
David Spade
David Spade (born 1964), American comedian and actor, SNL cast member 1990-1996, star of Tommy Boy, Joe Dirt, and Grown Ups, co-host of the Fly on the Wall podcast with Dana Carvey.
David Steinberg
David Steinberg (born 1942, Winnipeg) is a Canadian comedian, director, and Order of Canada member known for Smothers Brothers sermons, Tonight Show guest hosting, and directing Seinfeld, Friends, and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
David Williamson
David Williamson (born 1942) is an Australian playwright and screenwriter, widely described as Australia's most commercially successful playwright, whose plays include The Removalists and Don's Party.
Dead Outlaw
Dead Outlaw is a one-act musical by David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses, directed by David Cromer, about outlaw Elmer McCurdy's 65-plus years as an unburied mummified corpse. It premiered Off-Broadway in 2024, ran on Broadway at the Longacre in 2025, and earned seven Tony nominations including Best Musical.
Deadpan
Deadpan (dry humour, dry wit): comedic delivery with deliberate emotional neutrality, contrasting flat delivery with absurd content. Coined in the 1920s from dead + pan (face); first defined in a 1928 New York Times article about Buster Keaton, with nineteenth-century stage pre-history.