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Josh Thomas (comedian)
Josh Thomas is an Australian comedian and writer from Brisbane, creator and star of Please Like Me (2013–16) and Everything's Gonna Be Okay (2020), known for awkward self-deprecating stand-up, an ADHD diagnosis, and a 2020 autism diagnosis.
Josh Widdicombe
Josh Widdicombe (Joshua Michael Widdicombe, born 1983) is an English stand-up comedian and presenter, co-host of The Last Leg, two-time Taskmaster winner, Parenting Hell podcaster, and new 2026 Strictly Come Dancing host.
Josh Wolf (comedian)
Josh Wolf (comedian), also Joshua Wolf, American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer from Boston/Amherst, Massachusetts; Chelsea Lately roundtable regular, host of The Josh Wolf Show, author of It Takes Balls; birth year disputed (1969 vs 1974).
Joshua Henry
Joshua Henry (born 1984, Winnipeg) is a Canadian-American Broadway actor and singer, Tony-nominated for The Scottsboro Boys, Violet, and Carousel, Aaron Burr in Hamilton's first tour, and 2026 Tony winner for Coalhouse Walker Jr. in Ragtime.
Josie Long
Josie Long (born 1982, Orpington, Kent) is an English stand-up comedian and writer, BBC New Comedy Award winner at 17, Edinburgh Comedy Award best newcomer 2006 and three-time nominee, Arts Emergency co-founder, and Radio 4 Short Cuts host.
Joy Barcoma
Joy Barcoma (Joymayanne Felix Barcoma), Filipino beauty queen, TV host, and comedian, Pambansang Jusa; won Miss Philippines Earth 2025, finished Top 8 at Miss Earth 2025, and hosts GMA's Unang Hirit and The People Have Spoken.
Joy Woods
Joy Woods (born 1999) is an American musical theater actress from Chicago, a 2025 Tony nominee as Louise in Gypsy, known for Six, The Notebook, Little Shop of Horrors, and her West End debut as Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
József Katona
József Katona was a Hungarian dramatist and lawyer from Kecskemét who wrote Bánk bán, the tragedy regarded as the founding work of Hungarian national drama.
Juan Belmonte
Juan Belmonte García, El Pasmo de Triana (1892-1962), Spanish matador credited with inventing modern bullfighting through toreo parado and temple; rival of Joselito in the 1914-1920 Golden Age; subject of Chaves Nogales's 1935 biography.
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón
Juan Ruiz de Alarcón was a New Spain-born playwright of the Spanish Golden Age, best known for the comedy La verdad sospechosa, adapted by Corneille as Le Menteur.
Judah Friedlander
Judah Friedlander, American stand-up comedian and actor from Gaithersburg, Maryland; "The World Champion" trucker-hat persona; Frank Rossitano on 30 Rock (2006–2013); American Splendor Spirit Award nominee; author of How to Beat Up Anybody.
Judi Love
Judi Love (Judy Veronica Thomas, born 1980, Hackney, London) is an English stand-up comedian, presenter, and actor, a Loose Women panellist since 2020 and the first Black British female comedian to sell out the London Palladium.
Judith Malina
Judith Malina (1926-2015), German-born American actress, director, and anarchist-pacifist, co-founded The Living Theatre with Julian Beck in 1947, directed The Connection, The Brig, and Paradise Now, endured jail and exile, and published celebrated diaries.
Judy Gold
Judy Gold (born 1962, Newark, NJ) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer known for HBO, Comedy Central, and LOGO specials, three Off-Broadway solo shows including 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, two Emmys, and recent Hulu and Paramount+ roles.
Judy Tenuta
Judy Tenuta (Judy Lynn Tenuta, 1949-2022), American stand-up comedian, the accordion-playing "Love Goddess" and "Aphrodite of the Accordion"; founded the parody religion Judyism, won the 1988 American Comedy Award for best female comedy club performer, and received two Grammy nominations.
Jukebox musical
A jukebox musical is a musical theater genre whose score consists mostly of pre-existing popular songs, often one artist's catalog, exemplified by Mamma Mia! and Jersey Boys.
Julia Knitel
Julia Nicole Knitel is an American stage actress and singer who earned a 2025 Tony nomination for Dead Outlaw and led the tour of Beautiful as Carole King.
Julia Morris
Julia Morris is an Australian comedian, actor, and television presenter, a Full Frontal cast member, House Husbands lead, and host of I'm a Celebrity Australia from 2015, a five-time Gold Logie nominee now leading ABC's Class Clowns.
Julia Pastrana
Julia Pastrana (1834–1860), Mexican Indigenous singer and dancer with hypertrichosis and gingival hyperplasia, exhibited across Europe and Russia, mummified after death, and finally buried in Sinaloa in 2013.
Julian Barratt
Born in Leeds in 1968, Julian Barratt is an English comedian, actor, and writer. He is best known for co-writing and starring in the surreal comedy series The Mighty Boosh.
Julian Beck
Julian Beck (1925–1985), American painter, poet, and director, co-founded The Living Theatre with Judith Malina in 1947; anarcho-pacifist creator of Paradise Now, jailed 12 times, author of The Life of the Theatre and Theandric.
Julian Clary
Julian Clary, English camp comedian and novelist, aka The Joan Collins Fan Club; famous for Sticky Moments, the 1993 Norman Lamont joke, Celebrity Big Brother 2012, The Bolds books, and London Palladium pantomime.
Julian Fellowes
Julian Fellowes (born 1949, Cairo), Baron Fellowes of West Stafford, is an English actor-writer and Conservative peer, Oscar winner for Gosford Park and creator and sole writer of Downton Abbey, later The Gilded Age.
Julie Robinson Belafonte
Julie Robinson Belafonte (1928-2024), American dancer, actress, and activist; first white member of the Katherine Dunham Company, starred in Southland, and wife of Harry Belafonte from 1957 to 2007.
Julie Taymor
Julie Taymor is an American theater, opera, and film director, first woman to win the Tony for directing a musical. Known for The Lion King (1997), films Titus, Frida, and The Glorias, and Met Opera Magic Flute.
Julius Caesar (play)
Julius Caesar is Shakespeare's Roman tragedy, first performed at the Globe in September 1599, sourced from North's 1579 Plutarch translation, first printed in the 1623 First Folio, with the assassination at its midpoint.
Jump Jim Crow
Jump Jim Crow is a blackface song and dance first performed by white actor Thomas Dartmouth Rice around 1830, whose Jim Crow character gave segregation laws their name.
Jumpers
Jumpers is a 1972 play by Tom Stoppard that mixes a murder mystery, farce, and philosophy, first performed at London's Old Vic with Diana Rigg and Michael Hordern.
June Taylor
June Taylor (1917–2004) was an American Emmy-winning choreographer who founded the June Taylor Dancers, the precision dance troupe featured on Ed Sullivan's and Jackie Gleason's shows from 1948 until 1970.
Juno and the Paycock
Juno and the Paycock is a 1924 tragicomedy in three acts by Irish playwright Sean O'Casey, set in a Dublin tenement during the Irish Civil War.