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b. Imogene Fernandez de Coca, 18 November 1908, Philadelphia, Pa, USA, d. 2 June 2001, Westport, Connecticut, USA. Given birth to right into a showbusiness family members, Coca’s dad was a conductor, her mom a dancer, and Imogene began to be always a dancer. She made an appearance on Broadway …

A favorite comedian, actor, tv web host, radio character, and prank phone-call expert, Birmingham, Alabama local Rickey Smiley got his begin in 2000 because the web host of BET’s Comic Watch program. An effective standup career implemented — and a starring function in Glaciers Cube’s Fri After Next — with …

Johnny B. and Kamal are caustic phone-pranksters whose debut work was the best-selling humor record of 1993. Their second record, Jerky Children 2, premiered in 1994. The Jerky Children Movie found its way to theaters the next calendar year; it received poor testimonials and low solution sales. Even so, the …

Scotland’s most well-known comedian, Billy Connolly enjoyed years upon many years of stardom within the U.K. before briefly breaking the U.S. marketplace, and eventually settling right into a profession as an completed character acting professional. Connolly actually found out his penchant for humor while pursuing a profession like a folk …

A larger-than-life performer best remembered for his 1960 R&B chart-topper “THERE’S Something in your thoughts,” singer Bobby Marchan was created Oscar Wayne Gibson in Youngstown, OH, on Apr 30, 1930. As a kid he became fascinated with the feminine impersonators who made an appearance around the so-called “chitlin circuit” of …

English novelty duo Chas & Dave (singer/guitarist Charles “Chas” Hodges and singer/bassist Dave Peacock) issued their debut recording, 1 Fing ‘n’ Anuvver, in 1976. The set formed their very own record label soon thereafter, Rockney, before getting into a tour assisting the English doo wop revival take action the Darts, …

Bill Murray, main character and versatile comedian, includes a long set of strikes and high-grossing comedies to his name, which jointly have got placed him 82nd for the U.K.’s Best 100 Set of Movie Stars ever. Classic humor feature movies in the first ’80s, like Stripes, Meatballs, Caddyshack, and Ghostbusters, …

Sharp-tongued comedian/actor Kevin Hart was created and elevated in Philadelphia, where he cultivated his talent for performing standup. He give up his day work as a footwear salesman and started pursuing humor full-time, ultimately getting a small function within the Judd Apatow-produced Television series Undeclared. The next calendar year, he …

Comedy article writer and lyricist Wish Juber; vocalist Maggie Mayall; and composer, vocalist, and celebrity Lisa Harrison constitute the funny group referred to as the Housewives. The threesome skillfully requires the everyday drudgery to be a housewife and arranged their circumstances into comical lyrics certain to tickle the funny bone …

Expenses Hicks was the last great sociable satirist, the real descendent of comedians like Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, and Mort Sahl. The self-described “Prince of Darkness,” his function confronted the hypocrisies of past due-20th hundred years American existence, divining humor from the even more bad impulses of the federal government …