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Roast (comedy)
Roast (comedy): a consensual insult-tribute format from the New York Friars Club, popularized by Dean Martin and Comedy Central roasts, now a Netflix live-event staple (Tom Brady, Kevin Hart), with RoastMe and roast battle variants.
Rob Beckett
Rob Beckett (born 1986) is an English stand-up comedian and presenter from south London, host of Parenting Hell with Josh Widdicombe, Rob & Romesh Vs with Romesh Ranganathan, 8 Out of 10 Cats captain, and voice of Celebs Go Dating.
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 Bella
Robert Bella: American actor, director, writer, and teacher; NYU-trained under Adler, Mamet, and Macy; founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company (1985) and teacher of Mamet's Practical Aesthetics; later The Rookie and Castle writer-director.
Robert Fox (producer)
Robert Michael John Fox (1952–2026), English theatre, film, and TV producer; founder of Robert Fox Ltd (1980), producer of over 50 West End and 17 Broadway shows, executive producer of Netflix's The Crown, and producer of The Hours, Iris, and Lazarus.
Robert Helpmann
Sir Robert Helpmann (1909–1986), born Robert Murray Helpman in Mount Gambier, Australia, was a ballet dancer, choreographer, and actor: Sadler's Wells premier danseur with Margot Fonteyn, choreographer of The Red Shoes, the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and director of The Australian Ballet 1965–1976.
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.
Robert Smigel
Robert Smigel (born 1960), also known as Rob Smigel, is an American comedy writer and puppeteer, creator and voice of Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, SNL's TV Funhouse cartoons, and co-writer of Hotel Transylvania.
Robin Antin
Robin Antin (born 1961) is an American choreographer who created the Pussycat Dolls, founded in 1995 as a Viper Room burlesque revue and turned into a pop group via Interscope; she also formed Girlicious, Paradiso Girls, and G.R.L., owns Playground LA, and settled a 2021 lawsuit with Nicole Scherzinger.
Rock of Ages (musical)
Rock of Ages is a jukebox musical with book by Chris D'Arienzo, set in 1987 on the Sunset Strip. Premiered 2006 in LA, ran on Broadway 2009–2015 (2,328 performances), five Tony nominations, filmed in 2012 with Tom Cruise.
Rod Hull
Rod Hull (Rodney Stephen Hull, 1935–1999) was an English comedian and children's entertainer whose Emu puppet, found in an Australian props room in 1969, attacked celebrities and TV hosts; he died falling from a roof adjusting his TV aerial.
Rodney Carrington
Rodney Carrington, American stand-up comedian, singer, and actor from Longview, Texas; debut album Hangin' with Rodney (1998), ABC sitcom Rodney (2004–2006), Beer for My Horses with Toby Keith, Netflix special Here Comes the Truth.
Roland the Farter
Roland the Farter (Roland le Fartere, Roland le Petour) was a twelfth-century English court flatulist who held Hemingstone manor, Suffolk, by serjeanty from the Crown, owing an annual Christmas performance of one jump, one whistle, and one fart, attested in the Liber Feodorum.
Roman theater of Vienne
Roman theater of Vienne (Théâtre antique de Vienne): 1st-century CE Roman theater in Vienne, France, built 40–50 CE against the Pipet hill, second largest in Gaul after Autun, restored 1922–1938 and now hosting the Jazz à Vienne festival.
Roman theatre (structure)
Roman theatre (structure): the semicircular cavea, orchestra, and scaenae frons building of the Roman world, unified into one enclosed edifice, first canonized by Pompey's 55 BC theatre, with Vitruvian acoustic design.
Romantic drama
Romantic drama is the dramatic literature of the Romantic movement that replaced classicist tragedy on European stages, abandoning the unities for mixed styles, historical subjects, and heroes rebelling against society.
Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan)
Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan) is Kenneth MacMillan's three-act ballet to Prokofiev's Op. 64 score, premiered 9 February 1965 at Covent Garden by The Royal Ballet. Built on Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable but opened by Fonteyn and Nureyev, it is the most widely performed Prokofiev ballet version.
Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)
Romeo and Juliet (Ромео и Джульетта), Prokofiev's Op. 64 ballet in three acts on Shakespeare's tragedy, composed 1935 with an original happy ending, premiered in Brno 1938 and at the Kirov in 1940 under Lavrovsky, with famous later choreographies by Cranko, MacMillan, and Nureyev.
Romesh Ranganathan
Romesh Ranganathan, English stand-up comedian, actor, writer and presenter of Sri Lankan descent from Crawley; former maths teacher; host of The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League of Their Own, The Weakest Link; BAFTA winner 2021.
Romulus Linney (playwright)
Romulus Linney (1930–2011), American playwright and novelist, author of Heathen Valley, Childe Byron, Holy Ghosts, Tennessee, and 2; known for historical dramas and Appalachian folk plays, Obie and Gold Medal for Drama winner, father of actress Laura Linney.
Ron Athey
Ron Athey (born 1961, Groton, Connecticut) is a Los Angeles-based American performance and body artist known for the Torture Trilogy, the 1994 Walker Art Center blood-towel controversy, and works on AIDS, Pentecostal ritual, and queer identity.
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.
Ronnie Corbett
Ronnie Corbett (Ronald Balfour Corbett, 1930–2016), Scottish comedian, the shorter half of The Two Ronnies with Ronnie Barker; famed for armchair monologues, Sorry!, 5 ft 1 in height jokes, CBE.
Rory Bremner
Rory Bremner (born 1961) is a Scottish impressionist and political satirist, star of Rory Bremner... Who Else? and Bremner, Bird and Fortune with John Bird and John Fortune, a multi-BAFTA winner who has mimicked British prime ministers from Major to Blair.
Rory McGrath
Rory McGrath (Patrick Rory McGrath, born 1956) is an English comedian and writer from Cornwall, a Cambridge Footlights alumnus, co-founder of Hat Trick Productions, star of Who Dares Wins and Chelmsford 123, and a regular panellist on They Think It's All Over.
Rory O'Malley
Rory O'Malley (Rory James O'Malley), born 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American musical theatre actor and Tony nominee who originated Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon and played King George III in Hamilton, and co-founded Broadway Impact for marriage equality.
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.