* 1965 – Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian

* 1961 – Bill Hicks, American comedian ( d. 1994 )

* 1953 – Bill Kirchenbauer American comedian and actor

* Bill Maher talk show host, comedian.

* 1944 – Bill Rafferty, American comedian and game show host

* 1931 – Bill Skiles, American comedian ( d. 2011 )

* 1941 – Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist

* 1957 – Bill Engvall, American comedian and actor

* 1937 – Bill Cosby, American comedian, actor, producer, and author

* 1964 – Bill Bailey, British comedian

* 1950 – Bill Murray, American comedian and actor

** Bill Bailey, British comedian

* January 16 – Ennis Cosby, comedian Bill Cosby's son ( b. 1969 )

* July 7 – Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist

** Bill Burr, American comedian

* December 16 – Bill Hicks, American comedian ( d. 1994 )

* January 20 – Bill Maher, American actor, comedian, and political analyst

** Bill Cosby, American actor and comedian

* August 30 – Bill Daily, American comedian and dramatic actor

William Melvin " Bill " Hicks ( December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994 ) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician.

Other well-known celebrities who live on or have regularly visited the island: Famously renowned Harlem Renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones, U. S. President Barack Obama ; former president Bill Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ; comedian and talk show host David Letterman ; Bill Murray ; Tony Shalhoub ; Quincy Jones ; Ted Danson and wife Mary Steenburgen ; Larry David ; the Farrelly brothers ; Meg Ryan ; Chelsea Handler.

The songs " It's Just a Ride " and " If I Can Change " were partly inspired by comedian Bill Hicks.

Musician and comedian Bill Bailey is also a fan of Queens Park Rangers as is London Wasps & England rugby union player Dom Waldouck.

Famous Ulverstonians include Norman Birkett, who represented Britain at the Nuremberg Trials ; Maude Green, the mother of Rock and Roll music legend, Bill Haley ; Norman Gifford, an England test cricketer ; Francis Arthur Jefferson, a soldier awarded with the Victoria Cross ; and comedian Stan Laurel, of Laurel and Hardy fame.

* Ben Bailey ( born 1970 ), comedian and host of Cash cab.

Stand-up comedian Bill Bailey performs a riff in his Part Troll live show in which he asks members of the audience for suggestions for foods to place cannabis in.

Bill Bailey ( born Mark Bailey ; 24 February 1964 ) is an English comedian, musician, and actor.

* Bill Bailey – comedian

* British comedian actor Bill Bailey named his son Dax.

Examples of celebrity speakers include singer TV presenter Adrian Chiles, comedian Jasper Carrott, historian and broadcaster Carl Chinn, the Goodies actor and TV presenter Bill Oddie, rock musicians Ozzy Osbourne ( and all other members of the original Black Sabbath ), Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne ( ELO founders ), Rob Halford ( Judas Priest ), Dave Pegg ( of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull ), broadcaster Les Ross, politician Clare Short, SAS soldier, author John " Brummie " Stokes and many actresses and actors ; Martha Howe-Douglas, Donnaleigh Bailey, Nicolas Woodman, Sarah Smart, John Oliver and Ryan Cartwright.

" are also referenced by English comedian Bill Bailey during his stage routine on Cockney music.

The comedian Bill Bailey was raised in the town.

The first two episodes, featuring English comedian Bill Bailey and US actor and writer Carrie Fisher, were aired, respectively, in September and November 2010.

In 2011, the British Television Channel ITV1 aired an eight episode mini-series, hosted by popular British comedian Bill Bailey, with exclusive features from the series on itvWILD.

I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.

Everywhere there are little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments with winning warmth.

Adam Carolla ( born May 27, 1964 ) is an American radio personality, television host, comedian, and actor.

Albert Lawrence Brooks ( born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947 ) is an American actor, voice actor, writer, comedian, and director.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

Puerto Rican comedian and entrepreneur Silverio Pérez is credited with coining the term chupacabras soon after the first incidents were reported in the press.

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest ( born February 5, 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian.

Guest is sometimes off-putting in interviews and promotional appearances ( having been described by reviewer Warren Etheredge as, " rude, condescending and intolerable "), as well as with people who have met him outside of the work environment because contrary to expectations of him as a comedian he often seems deadpan, even dour.

Denis Colin Leary ( born August 18, 1957 ) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director and film producer.

* Elliot Rhodes ( Boris Conley ) is a comedian and musician, performing short musical sketches about current events at the end of Friday night episodes of Frontline.

Mr. Newman is listed as a comedian, so it is probable that this version was the first parody of the original Gospel song.

Jerry Lewis ( born March 16, 1926 ) is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director.

Jay Scott Greenspan ( born September 23, 1959 ), better known by his professional name of Jason Alexander, is an American actor, director, producer, writer, singer, and comedian.

Allen Kelsey Grammer ( born February 21, 1955 ) is an American actor and comedian.

Michael Edward Palin, CBE, FRGS ( pronounced ; born 5 May 1943 ) is an English comedian, actor, writer and television presenter best known for being one of the members of the comedy group Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.

Melvin Kenneth " Mel " Smith ( born 3 December 1952 ) is an English comedian, writer, film director, producer and actor.

Paul Whitehouse ( born 17 May 1958 ) is a Welsh actor, writer and comedian.

He lives in Islington and drives an Audi, is a supporter of English Premiership football team Tottenham Hotspur and has appeared on fellow comedian Phil Cornwell's Spurs Show podcast.

* Felix Dexter is an actor, comedian, and writer.

Actor / comedian Robin Williams revealed in an interview with Jimmy Fallon that his daughter Zelda Rae is named after the title character in the series.

The Wizard of New Zealand, QSM ( born Ian Brackenbury Channell ; 4 December 1932 ) is an English-born New Zealand educator, comedian, magician and politician, who has become something of a national icon of New Zealand.

Jimmy Carr is one of the latest targets of Viz, being lambasted as a sham of a comedian by having photographs of himself posing with employees who have won mundane awards at meaningless corporate events, under the recurrent headline ' Carr for hire '.

* June 9 – In Los Angeles, comedian Richard Pryor is badly burned trying to freebase cocaine.