* 1926 – Sergio Franchi, Italian singer and actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1959 – Toni Servillo, Italian actor and director

* 1942 – Giancarlo Giannini, Italian actor

* 1919 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian actor and producer ( d. 2010 )

* 1971 – Raoul Bova, Italian actor

* 1953 – Nanni Moretti, Italian actor, director, and producer

* 1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer ( d. 1783 )

* 1950 – Nino Frassica, Italian actor

At this time, on the more commercial side of production, the phenomenon of Totò, a Neapolitan actor who is acclaimed as the major Italian comic, exploded.

* 1953 – Massimo Troisi, Italian actor ( d. 1994 )

* 1986 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor ( b. 1922 )

Francesco Andreini ( c. 1548 – 1624 ) was an Italian actor mainly of commedia dell ' arte plays.

* 1898 – Totò, Italian actor and composer ( d. 1967 )

Literary scholars have identified characteristics of Margaret Mitchell's first husband, Berrien " Red " Upshaw, in the character of Rhett, while another sees the image of Italian actor, Rudolph Valentino.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

* 1906 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor ( Lecuona Cuban Boys ) ( d. 1974 )

* 1937 – Felix Silla, Italian actor

* 1929 – Gastone Moschin, Italian actor

* 1922 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor ( d. 1986 )

* 1916 – Arnoldo Foà, Italian actor

* 1906 – Pietro Tordi, Italian actor ( d. 1990 )

* 1930 – Alberto Lionello, Italian actor ( d. 1994 )

* 1945 – Leopoldo Mastelloni, Italian actor

* 1938 – Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor

* 1948 – Beppe Grillo, Italian actor, comedian, and activist, leader of the Five Star Movement

Warner quickly paid the loan back and hired Hawks as a producer to " oversee " the making of a new series of one-reel comedies starring the Italian comedian Monty Banks.

** Beppe Grillo, Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor

Also in 1965, he traveled to Italy to play a role in Due Marines e un Generale, co-starring alongside with the famous Italian comedian duo of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia.

Roberto Remigio Benigni, (; born 27 October 1952 ) is an Academy Award winning Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director of film, theatre and television.

Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò (; 15 February 1898 – 15 April 1967 ) or as Antonio De Curtis, and nicknamed il principe della risata (" the prince of laughter "), was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter.

She also accompanied comedian Hape Kerkeling in a rendition of Italian Eurovision winning song “ Insieme ”.

Franco Franchi ( born Francesco Benenato, 18 September 1928 – 9 December 1992 ) was an Italian comedian.

The cover is a photo of " Gastone ", a stage character of Ettore Petrolini, an Italian comedian of the 1920s.

* An Italian television series entitled I racconti di padre Brown (" The Tales of Father Brown ") starred the well-known Italian comedian Renato Rascel.

* Antonio Albanese, Italian comedian, actor, director, and writer

Italian comedian Daniele Luttazzi discussed gallows humor focusing on the particular type of laughter that it arouses ( risata verde or groen lachen ), and said that grotesque satire, as opposed to ironic satire, is the one that most often arouses this kind of laughter.

Other than the Greens, participants of the new political force included, among others, Massimo Scalia ( a former leading Green ), Bruno Mellano ( president of the Italian Radicals ), movie maker Mario Monicelli, writer Dacia Maraini, geologist Mario Tozzi and comedian Giobbe Covatta.

* Aldo Giuffrè ( 1924 – 2010 ), Italian film actor and comedian

In 1998, Branduardi teamed up with Italian stand-up comedian and writer Giorgio Faletti for Il dito e la luna (" The Finger and the Moon ").

His Italian heritage was questioned by comedian Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report, who alleged in an interview that Pascrell could not truly be of Italian descent because Italian surnames must end with a vowel.

Capezzone became a well-known politician also for his appearances in the satirical TV show Markette ( on private TV-channel La7 ) and for his caricature-imitation made by Italian comedian Neri Marcorè in another satirical TV show, Superciro ( on private TV-channel Italia 1 ).

Joseph Ellis " Joe " Pasquale ( born 20 August 1961 ) is an English comedian ( of Italian descent ) from Grays, Essex, who was crowned " King of the Jungle ", on the reality TV show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here !.

* Aldo Fabrizi, Italian comedian

Budrio is the birthplace of Giuseppe Barilli, better known under his false name of Quirico Filopanti, a famous Italian mathematician and politician. It is also the birthplace of Zenobio, a famous comedian of the 1970s.

Giuseppe Piero Grillo, better known as Beppe Grillo ( born 21 July 1948 ), is an Italian activist, blogger, comedian and actor.