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RhonniRose Mantilla
RhonniRose Mantilla is an American actress and musical theatre performer, a Baldwin Wallace graduate, Broadway ensemble member in Harmony (2023), and Chelsea Hamilton on CBS's Beyond the Gates (2025).
Rhythm 0
Rhythm 0 (1974), Marina Abramović's six-hour performance at Studio Morra, Naples: she stood as "the object" while an audience used 72 objects, from a rose to a loaded gun, on her.
Ria Lina
Ria Lina, British-Filipina stand-up comedian, writer and actor (also Dr Ria Lina), holds a PhD in virology and worked in IT forensics; known for Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week, the Riawakening and Riabellion tours, and BBC Radio 4's Ria Lina Gets Forensic.
Ribaldry
Ribaldry, also called bawdry, is coarse humor about sex and bodily functions rather than obscenity. Attested from the late 14th century, it spans Chaucer, Shakespeare, Moliere, Restoration comedy, and modern stand-up.
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 Little
Rich Little (born 1938, Ottawa) is a Canadian-American impressionist called "The Man of a Thousand Voices," famous for presidential impressions, The Judy Garland Show debut, Dean Martin Roasts, and ongoing Las Vegas shows.
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 Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) was an Irish-born playwright and Whig politician who wrote The Rivals and The School for Scandal and managed the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Richard Gadd
Richard Gadd (born 1989, Wormit, Fife, Scotland) is a Scottish writer, actor, and comedian, creator and star of Netflix's Baby Reindeer (2024), winner of three Primetime Emmys, and of the 2026 BBC/HBO Max series Half Man with Jamie Bell.
Richard Herring
Richard Keith Herring (born 1967) is an English comedian, writer and podcaster, half of Lee and Herring (Fist of Fun), creator of RHLSTP, the Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, dubbed 'The Podfather', and a Taskmaster series 10 contestant. Not the actor Richard Riehle.
Richard Hunt (puppeteer)
Richard Hunt (1951-1992), American puppeteer for Jim Henson's Muppets; performed Scooter, Janice, Beaker, Sweetums, Don Music, and Junior Gorg; joined in 1970 at 18; died of AIDS.
Richard II (play)
Richard II is a history play by William Shakespeare, written in the mid-1590s, dramatizing the downfall of King Richard II at the hands of his cousin Henry Bolingbroke.
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 Kiley
Richard Paul Kiley (1922-1999), American stage, television, and film actor and baritone singer; two-time Tony winner, best known as the original Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha and the first to sing The Impossible Dream, also an Emmy-winning TV actor and documentary narrator.
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 McCabe
Richard McCabe (born 1960) is a Scottish actor and RSC Associate Artist who won the 2013 Olivier Award and 2015 Tony Award for playing Harold Wilson in The Audience alongside Helen Mirren.
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.
Richard Rodgers Theatre
Richard Rodgers Theatre, formerly Chanin's 46th Street Theatre and 46th Street Theatre, is a 1,319-seat Nederlander Broadway house at 226 West 46th Street, built 1924 by Herbert J. Krapp for the Chanins, landmarked, home of Hamilton.
Richard Roma
Richard (Ricky) Roma is the top real estate salesman in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, first played by Jack Shepherd in 1983 and Joe Mantegna on Broadway in 1984, and by Al Pacino in the 1992 film.
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais (born 1961, Reading, England), British comedian and co-creator with Stephen Merchant of The Office, starring as David Brent; also Extras, Derek, After Life, five-time Golden Globes host, and record-selling stand-up.
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.
Riders to the Sea
Riders to the Sea is a 1904 one-act tragedy by Irish playwright John Millington Synge, about a mother who loses her sons to the sea.
Rik Mayall
Rik Mayall (1958–2014), English comedian and actor of the 1980s alternative comedy scene; star of The Young Ones, The New Statesman, and Bottom, and half of the Dangerous Brothers double act with Ade Edmondson.
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, called "The Greatest Show on Earth," was an American circus formed in 1919, closed in 2017, and revived in 2023.
Ringling brothers
Ringling brothers (originally Rüngling), seven Wisconsin siblings who founded a Baraboo wagon show in 1884, bought Barnum & Bailey in 1907, merged the shows in 1919, sold to the Feld family in 1967, closed 2017, and returned animal-free in 2023.
Rip Taylor
Rip Taylor (Charles Elmer Taylor Jr., 1931–2019), American confetti-throwing comedian, host of The $1.98 Beauty Show, Emmy-nominated voice of Uncle Fester, over 2,000 TV appearances.
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.
Rituals of Signs and Transformations
Rituals of Signs and Transformations (Tuqus al-isharat wa-l-tahawwulat) is a 1994 play by the Syrian playwright Sa'd Allah Wannus, set in 1880s Damascus during a feud between the city's mufti and the leader of the ashraf.
Riverdance
Riverdance is an Irish theatrical show that began as a seven-minute interval act at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin. It spread Irish step dance globally.
Riyadh Comedy Festival
Riyadh Comedy Festival, a Saudi state-organized stand-up comedy event in Riyadh. First edition 26 September to 9 October 2025 at Boulevard City with 50+ international comedians; drew human rights criticism and performer withdrawals.