The Best Comedians
by amanda_mauno | created - 19 Dec 2010 | updated - 31 Dec 2010 | PublicList of my favourite comedians.
1. Jim Carrey
Actor | Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Jim Carrey, Canadian-born and a U.S. citizen since 2004, is an actor and producer famous for his rubbery body movements and flexible facial expressions. The two-time Golden Globe-winner rose to fame as a cast member of the Fox sketch comedy In Living Color (1990) but leading roles in Ace Ventura: ...
Liar Liar, Bruce Almighty
2. Robin Williams
Actor | Mrs. Doubtfire
Robin McLaurin Williams was born on Saturday, July 21st, 1951, in Chicago, Illinois, a great-great-grandson of Mississippi Governor and Senator, Anselm J. McLaurin. His mother, Laurie McLaurin (née Janin), was a former model from Mississippi, and his father, Robert Fitzgerald Williams, was a Ford ...
3. Daniel Stern
Actor | City Slickers
Daniel Stern was born in Bethesda, Maryland, to a social worker father and a day care manager mother. He has been acting professionally since the age of seventeen. Following his high school graduation, he auditioned for the Washington Shakespeare Festival seeking a job as a lighting engineer but ...
Home Alone, Bushwhacked
4. Stefán Karl Stefánsson
Actor | LazyTown
Stefan Karl Stefansson was an Icelandic film and stage actor/comedian, best known for playing the villain Robbie Rotten of Nickjr's popular TV program Lazy Town, that currently airs worldwide in over 103 countries, in all five continents, on [such distinguished] networks as BBC, CBBC, CBS, ...
Lazy Town
5. John Cleese
Actor | A Fish Called Wanda
John Cleese was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, to Muriel Evelyn (Cross) and Reginald Francis Cleese. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. Here he ...
Monty Python, Fawlty Towers
6. Terry Jones
Writer | The Meaning of Life
Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic ...
Monty Python
7. Michael Palin
Writer | Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Michael Palin is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter. He was one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python.
After the Monty Python television series ended in 1974, the Palin/Jones team worked on Ripping Yarns, an intermittent television comedy series broadcast over ...
Monty Python, A Fish Called Wanda
8. Eric Idle
Actor | Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Eric Idle is an English comedian, actor, author, singer, playwright, director, and songwriter. co-creator of Monty Python on TV, stage, and five films, including The Life of Brian and The Holy Grail, which he later adapted for the stage with John Du Prez as Monty Python's Spamalot, winning the Tony...
Monty Python, 102 Dalmatians(voice)
9. Rowan Atkinson
Actor | Johnny English
Rowan Sebastian Atkinson was born on 6 January, 1955, in Consett, Co. Durham, UK, to Ella May (Bainbridge) and Eric Atkinson. His father owned a farm, where Rowan grew up with his two older brothers, Rupert and Rodney. He attended Newcastle University and Oxford University where he earned degrees ...
Mr. Bean, Love Actually
10. Chevy Chase
Actor | Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Chevy Chase was born Cornelius Crane Chase on October 8, 1943 in Lower Manhattan, New York, to Cathalene Parker (Browning), a concert pianist and librettist, and Edward Tinsley "Ned" Chase, an editor and writer. His parents both came from prominent families, and his grandfathers were artist and ...
Christmas Vacation
11. Graham Chapman
Writer | Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Graham Chapman was born on January 8, 1941 in Leicester, England while a German air raid was in progress. Graham's father was a chief police inspector and probably inspired the constables Graham often portrayed later in comedy sketches. Graham studied medicine in college and earned an M.D., but he ...
Monty Python
12. Charles Chaplin
Writer | The Great Dictator
Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...
You know...
13. Ellen DeGeneres
Producer | Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Emmy-winning talk show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana, a New Orleans suburb. She is the daughter of Betty DeGeneres (née Elizabeth Jane Pfeffer), a speech therapist, and Elliott Everett DeGeneres, Jr., an insurance agent. Her brother is musician and producer Vance DeGeneres...
Her TV-show
14. Stephen Fry
Actor | Gosford Park
Writer, actor, comedian, doer of good works, excellent good friend to the famous and not, Fry lives in his London SW1 flat and his Norfolk house when not traveling. Famous for his public declaration of celibacy in the "Tatler" back in the 1980s, Emma Thompson has characterised her friend as "90 ...
15. Seth Green
Actor | Robot Chicken
Seth Green has starred in numerous films and television series including the Austin Powers trilogy, The Italian Job (2003), Without a Paddle (2004), Party Monster (2003), Can't Hardly Wait (1998), Old Dogs (2009) and dozens more, including starring roles in Sexy Evil Genius (2013), The Story of Luke...
Old Dogs, Scooby Doo
16. Scott Innes
Actor | Scooby-Doo
Born in 1966 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. There's no one whose passion for community involvement and service equals that of Scott Innes. A father of four, Scott has developed a simple, fun, family based broadcast philosophy: Make people laugh. Scott believes the sound of laughter is good for the soul...
Scooby Doo
17. Tom Kenny
Actor | SpongeBob SquarePants
Tom Kenny grew up in East Syracuse, New York. When Tom was young he was into comic books, drawing funny pictures and collecting records. Tom turned to stand-up comedy in Boston and San Francisco. This led to appearances on every cable show spawned by the stand-up epidemic of the '80s and '90s as ...
His voice talent in Powerpuff Girls, Spyro and other cartoons.
18. Hugh Laurie
Actor | House M.D.
Hugh was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959, to Patricia (Laidlaw) and William George Ranald Mundell "Ran" Laurie, a doctor, both of Scottish descent. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge. Son of an Olympic gold medalist in the sport, he rowed for the England youth team (1977) and for ...
101 Dalmatians, House, Sense and Sensibility
19. Nathan Lane
Actor | The Producers
Nathan Lane is an American actor and singer from New Jersey who is known for playing Timon from The Lion King, Spot Helperman/Scott Leadready II from Teacher's Pet, Max Bialystock from The Producers, Snowball from Stuart Little, Hamegg from Astro Boy and Ernie Smuntz from Mouse Hunt. He is married ...
The Birdcage, The Lion King
20. Catherine O'Hara
Actress | A Mighty Wind
Canadian actress, writer, and comedian, Catherine O'Hara gained recognition as one of the original cast members on the Canadian television sketch comedy show SCTV (1976). On the series, she impersonated the likes of Lucille Ball, Tammy Faye Bakker, Gilda Radner, Katharine Hepburn, and Brooke Shields...
Home Alone, Beetlejuice
21. Rob Paulsen
Actor | Animaniacs
Robert Paulsen is an American voice actor and singer from Detroit, Michigan. He is known for voicing Raphael in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, Yakko Warner in Animaniacs, Pinky in Pinky and the Brain, Carl Wheezer in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Hadji in Jonny Quest, Donatello in the ...
His voice talent
22. David Spade
Actor | Joe Dirt
Adept at playing comic brat extraordinaires both on film and TV, David Spade was born on July 22, 1964, in Birmingham, Michigan, the youngest of three brothers. He is the son of Judith J. (Meek), a writer and editor, and Wayne M. Spade, a sales rep, and is of German, English, Irish, and Scottish ...
Same
23. Ben Stiller
Producer | Tropic Thunder
Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller was born on November 30, 1965, in New York City, New York, to legendary comedians Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. His father was of Austrian Jewish and Polish Jewish descent, and his mother was of Irish Catholic descent (she converted to Judaism).
His parents made no real...
Night at the Museum
24. Frank Welker
Actor | Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Frank Welker was born in Colorado. He followed his dream to California, and started a voice acting career which has spanned over five decades and hundreds of credits. Frank has worked with fellow voice actors Casey Kasem, Nicole Jaffe, Don Messick, Heather North, and Stefanianna Christopherson on ...
His voice
25. Owen Wilson
Actor | The Royal Tenenbaums
Self-proclaimed troublemaker Owen Cunningham Wilson was born in Dallas, to Irish-American parents originally from Massachusetts. He grew up in Texas with his mother, Laura (Cunningham), a photographer; his father, Robert Andrew Wilson, an ad exec; and his brothers, Andrew Wilson (the eldest) and ...
26. Per Asplin
Actor | Anything Goes
Celebrated Norwegian actor, singer and composer. Member of a very popular group of singers called "The Monn-Keys" from 1950. Stage debut as actor in 1954 at the revue theater Chat Noir in Oslo. Most familiar with musical parts, he appeared in West Side Story and Fantasticks and made several TV ...
27. Øivind Blunck
Actor | Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by
Øivind Blunck was born on December 28, 1950 in Oslo, Norway. He is an actor and writer, known for Folk og røvere i Kardemomme by (1988), Fridtjofs jul (2006) and Good night darling (2009). He was previously married to Guri Schanke.
28. Åsleik Engmark
Actor | Knerten
Åsleik Engmark was born on December 27, 1965 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor and director, known for Twigson (2009), Brødrene Dal og mysteriet med Karl XIIs gamasjer (2005) and Twigson Ties the Knot (2010). He was married to Helle Engmark. He died on February 12, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.
29. Harald Heide-Steen Jr.
Actor | Fortuna
Harald Heide-Steen Jr. was born on August 18, 1939 in Oslo, Norway. He was an actor and director, known for Fortuna (1993), Flåklypa Grand Prix (2000) and Sommer i byen (1962). He died on July 3, 2008 in Oslo, Norway.
30. Kim Haugen
Actor | Vestavind
Kim Haugen was born on September 24, 1958 in Oslo, Norway. He is an actor, known for Vestavind (1994), Kodenavn Hunter (2007) and Ved kongens bord (2005). He has been married to Nadia Hasnaoui since August 3, 1991. They have three children.
31. Kjersti Holmen
Actress | Blodsbånd
Kjersti Holmen was born on February 8, 1956 in Norway. She was an actress and writer, known for Blodsbånd (1998), Max Manus: Man of War (2008) and People in the Sun (2011). She was married to Reidar Sørensen. She died on September 26, 2021 in Oslo, Norway.
32. Leif Juster
Actor | Fjols til fjells
Born 1910 in Oslo, Norway, Leif Juster first made a name for himself as a stage actor in the 1930s. Following his starring role in a film comedy about a disappeared sausage-maker, Den forsvundne pølsemaker (1941), released in 1941, he became a household name. He was not to appear in films ...
Fjols til Fjells
33. Trond Kirkvaag
Actor | Brødrene Dal og Vikingsverdets Forbannelse
Trond Kirkvaag was born on June 21, 1946 in Norway. He was an actor and writer, known for Brødrene Dal og Vikingsverdets Forbannelse (2010), Brødrene Dal og spektralsteinene (1982) and Brødrene Dal og professor Drøvels hemmelighet (1979). He died on November 16, 2007 in ...
34. Knut Lystad
Actor | Brødrene Dal og Vikingsverdets Forbannelse
Knut Lystad was born on January 31, 1946 in Norway. He is an actor and writer, known for Brødrene Dal og Vikingsverdets Forbannelse (2010), Karl & Co (1998) and Brødrene Dal og spektralsteinene (1982).
35. Tom Mathisen
Actor | Brødrene Dal og Vikingsverdets Forbannelse
Tom Mathisen was born on August 14, 1952 in Oslo, Norway. He is an actor and writer, known for Brødrene Dal og Vikingsverdets Forbannelse (2010), Piker, vin og sang (1998) and Flimra (1970).
36. Hege Schøyen
Actress | Suffløsen
Hege Schøyen was born on May 22, 1957 in Oslo, Norway. She is an actress and writer, known for The Prompter (1999), Andre omgang (2007) and Blücher (1988). She has been married to Arild Andersen since 1991.
37. Robert Stoltenberg
Actor | Trolljegeren
Robert Stoltenberg was born on April 17, 1965 in Norway. He is an actor and writer, known for Troll Hunter (2010), Borettslaget (2002) and Narvestad tar ferie (2017).
38. Rolv Wesenlund
Actor | Fleksnes fataliteter
Rolv Wesenlund was born on September 17, 1936 in Horten, Norway. He was an actor and writer, known for Fleksnes fataliteter (1972), Den siste Fleksnes (1974) and Bør Børson Jr. (1974). He was married to Ruth. He died on August 18, 2013 in Norway.
39. Bård Ylvisåker
Writer | I kveld med YLVIS
Bård Ylvisåker is a Norwegian comedian, singer, songwriter and musician (saxophone, guitar) born in Bergen, 21 March 1982. He is the father of three children alongside his wife Maria Lekva (married 2012). Together with his brother, Vegard Ylvisåker, they form the comedy duo Ylvis, active since 2000...
40. Vegard Ylvisåker
Writer | I kveld med YLVIS
Vegard Ylvisåker is a Norwegian comedian, singer, songwriter and musician (piano, guitar) born in Trondheim, 19 May 1979. He is the father of three children alongside his wife Helene Helgesen (married 2011). Together with his brother, Bård Ylvisåker, they form the comedy duo Ylvis, active since ...
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