* Bob Burns-a popular American radio and film comedian during the 1930s and 1940s.

Musical comedian and parodist Spike Jones recorded a three minute spoof of radio soap operas entitled None but the Lonely Heart ( A Soaperetta ) in the 1940s.

Ted Ray ( 21 November 1905 – 8 November 1977 ) was a popular English comedian of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

Hansen also revived interest in the double entendre songs of 1940s Borscht Belt comedian Benny Bell, especially Bell's signature tune, " Shaving Cream ".

Charlie Chester ( April 26, 1914 – June 26, 1997 ) was a British comedian and TV and radio presenter, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s.

In the early 1940s, WBEN's morning host was comedian and future national late-night television star Jack Paar ( he left the station when drafted into the military in 1943 during World War II, and opted not to return to Buffalo after the war ).

In the early 1940s, Pollack was the organizer for a band led by comedian Chico Marx.

* Charles Butterworth ( actor ) ( 1896 – 1946 ), film actor, comedian of the 1930s and 1940s

* Miklós Vig, Hungarian cabaret and jazz singer, actor, comedian and theater secretary from the 1920s to the 1940s

* Danny Kaye, Hollywood movie star and comedian in the 1940s and 1950s.

Robb Wilton, born Robert Wilton Smith ( 28 August 1881 – 1 May 1957 ) was an English comedian and comic actor who was famous for his filmed monologues in the 1930s and 1940s in which he played incompetent authority figures.

Nagerkoyil Sudalaimuthu Krishnan (), popularly known as Kalaivanar and also as ' NSK ' was a leading Tamil film comedian, drama artist, playback singer and writer in the early stages of the Tamil film industry-in the 1940s and 1950s.

From the early 1940s, O ' Hanlon was a character comedian in feature films, usually playing the hero's streetwise, cynical friend.

Jimmy Little Sr was a tap dancer, comedian, musician and singer who led his own vaudeville troupe along the Murray River during the 1930s and 1940s.

A veteran 1940s Grand Ole Opry comedian, Scott joined Franks on his 1999 “ Comedy Down Home ” on Crimson Records.

Olga San Juan ( March 16, 1927 – January 3, 2009 ) was an American actress, dancer and comedian, mainly active in films during the 1940s.

Throughout the 1950s he directed over 140 episodes of shows like Playhouse 90, Climax !, and Danger, including The Comedian, written by Rod Serling and starring Mickey Rooney as a ragingly vicious television comedian.

In 1932, he appeared in a motion picture with the comedian Fernandel, and between then and the 1950s he would appear in half a dozen films as well as serving as the artistic director of three different theatres.

Bernard Cribbins, OBE ( born 29 December 1928 ) is an English character actor, voice-over artist and musical comedian with a career spanning over half a century who came to prominence in films in the 1960s, has been in work consistently since his professional debut in the mid 1950s, and as of 2012 is still an active performer.

: NBC had tried unsuccessfully to do late night television with the comedian Jerry Lester and with Morey Amsterdam in the early 1950s, but that did not go over well with the viewers.

Paul Winchell ( December 21, 1922 – June 24, 2005 ) was an American ventriloquist, voice actor, comedian, inventor, and humanitarian, whose entertainment career flourished in the 1950s and 1960s.

She also made a number of television appearances in the 1950s, including one memorable encounter with comedian Jimmy Durante on NBC's All Star Revue on December 1, 1951 ( preserved on a kinescope ).

Al Lohman ( January 15, 1933, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa – October 14, 2002, Rancho Mirage, California ) was a personality and comedian with a long career in American radio from the 1950s through the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Dutch Masters became well known in the late 1950s and early 1960s for its sponsorship of various television projects of the comedian Ernie Kovacs.

" Go to work on an egg " was an advertising slogan used by the United Kingdom's Egg Marketing Board during the 1950s as part of more than £ 12 million it spent on advertising, including a series of television adverts starring the comedian Tony Hancock and actress Patricia Hayes in 1965.

His forte was as a nightclub entertainer, and he was the biggest cabaret draw in New York throughout the 1950s, appearing alongside the comedian Jimmy Durante.

Hunt Sales is the son of 1950s / 60s television comedian Soupy Sales.

" The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun " is a 1984 song by American singer – comedian Julie Brown parodying 1950s " teen tragedy " songs.

In 1928, he began to tour as a comedian, principally in Lancashire and the North, developing his own show, Randle's Scandals, which in the 1950s featured Roy Castle.

He flirted briefly with bebop, acknowledged that it was not for him, and returned to the variety stage during the 1950s, touring with the likes of the comedian Max Miller.

Rod Brasfield was a popular Grand Ole Opry comedian in the 1950s, known for his own performances and onstage comic banter with legendary Opry comic Minnie Pearl.

Robinson writes that the comedian already demonstrated " a special mastery of telling stories in images " at this early stage in his career.

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.

He used his writing skills to begin producing and directing, with some of his most well-known films including Experiment in Terror, The Great Race, and the hugely successful Pink Panther film series with the British comedian Peter Sellers.

Frederic " Fred " Willard ( born September 18, 1939 ) is an American actor, comedian, voice actor, and writer, best known for his improvisational comedy skills.

Other elements of a tarento's character may include their origins and other / former careers ( e. g. author / illustrator Lily Franky ), intelligence ( e. g. Masaru Hamaguchi, a comedian who once misspelled his own name on a televised test ), hobbies and skills ( many female celebrities are known for how well or poorly they can cook, from the former members of Pink Lady on the high end of the continuum to race queen Yinling on the low end ), or appearance ( many non-Japanese talents such as Bobby Ologun use their looks to this effect ).

But he is probably most known for his skills as a stand-up comedian and for getting his arm broken while arm-wrestling a woman during a stand up show.

He also got a job writing jokes for comedian Yakov Smirnoff and developed his joke writing skills by performing himself at amateur stand-up comedy nights.

In 1958 an appearance with the comedian Dickie Henderson led to his being offered the job of compère of Val Parnell's weekly TV variety show, Sunday Night at the London Palladium.

Dennis Miller Live was a weekly talk show on HBO, hosted by comedian Dennis Miller.

During the Dandy Xtreme era the comic had no cover star, and covers were often given over to celebrities or current trends, but after the comic returned to its weekly, all-comic format in October 2010, the popular British comedian Harry Hill took over the cover spot.

The remaining ten episodes were screened weekly on ABC1 from 2 April 2011, beginning with British actor and comedian Alan Davies, and concluding on 4 June 2011 with British actor and writer Richard E Grant.

He developed and launched Prisoners of Gravity with Mark Askwith and host / comedian Rick Green-a prize-winning, weekly half-hour, hybrid magazine / documentary / veejay show devoted to science fiction, fantasy, comics, and horror.

The following fall, Soul Train began using various guest hosts weekly until comedian Mystro Clark began a two-year stint as permanent host in 1997.

The stand-up comedian and actor, best known for his part in Sex Lives of the Potato Men often writes about the area in his weekly blog.

He produced a regular ( generally weekly ) podcast, the Collings & Herrin with comedian Richard Herring, which began in February 2008 and was named Podcast of the Week in the Times in July 2008.

Andrew Christopher Denton ( born 4 May 1960 ) is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope.

In February 1983, comedian Jackie Martling was hired to make weekly appearances as a comedy writer.

Russ Abbot ( born Russell Allan Roberts on 18 September 1947 ) is an English musician, comedian and actor who first came to public notice during the 1970s as the singer and drummer with British comedy showband the Black Abbots, later forging a prominent solo career as a television comedian with his own weekly show on British television.

Original commissioned comedy had, by 2006, been phased out almost entirely, with comic performers tending to deliver existing material from their repertoires although, in June / July 2006, the Scots comedian and writer Janey Godley scripted a weekly series of satiric fictional extracts from Nancy Dell ' Olio's Diary to coincide with the FIFA World Cup.

The weekly, three-hour program premiered the weekend of October 6, 1973 ; was produced by Bustany ; and hosted by comedian Don Bowman.

Beginning in the 1999 season, comedian Jimmy Kimmel began making weekly game predictions and performing comedy skits on the show ; the following year, Jillian Barberie was added to the program to provide weather forecasts for each week's game sites.

Anglo then worked on the weekly Look & Cook magazine in the late 1960s, co-wrote a small number of cookery books, and was a joke writer for comedian Tommy Cooper.

Jay also hosts " Shit Talk Daily " a weekly podcast with friend and fellow comedian Mark Bennett and writes and stars in a semi-weekly video series called " Rapid Fire Tabloid News " with co-host Jay Hayden.