Charlie Marble was back and forth on several occasions, first to confer with Andy on the advisability of cancelling the Las Vegas engagement -- they decided it was wise -- and later to announce that a prominent comedian, also an agency client, had agreed to fill the casino's open date.

* 1977 – Charlie Pickering, Australian comedian

* 1927 – Charlie Callas, American comedian ( d. 2011 )

The films made Langdon a recognized comedian in the caliber of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

* December 20 – Charlie Callas, American comedian and singer ( d. 2011 )

" Capturing NBC's cornerstone show was coup enough, but Paley repeated in 1948 with longtime NBCers Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy and Red Skelton, as well as former CBS defectors Jack Benny, radio's top-rated comedian, and Burns and Allen.

* Charlie Chester ( 1914 – 1997 ), British stand-up comedian

* Charlie Murphy ( born 1959 ), actor and comedian.

* Charlie Murphy, comedian / actor

Actors Lorne Greene and Lee Majors, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev, composer John Williams, author Graham Greene, and former Mauritian QC and Politician Sir Gaetan Duval ( 1930 – 1996 ), football player Johan Cruijff, drummer Charlie Watts, Cheech Marin, Thomas Chong, television host and comedian Jay Leno, Mike Hailwood and composer John Barry musician Carlos Santana, all owned SMs.

Charlie Drake ( 19 June 1925 – 23 December 2006 ) was an English comedian, actor, writer and singer.

Charlie Chaplin once commented that he was the best comedian alive, and Moreno has been referred to as the " Charlie Chaplin of Mexico ".

For his delivery of dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as " the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin ".

He joined the cast for HBO's fifth season of Entourage as Charlie an up and coming comedian and Eric Murphy's newest client.

In 1985, she co-starred on the CBS sitcom Charlie & Co. with comedian Flip Wilson.

Chaplin is a 1992 American biographical film about the life of British comedian Charlie Chaplin.

* Charlie Williams ( 1928 – 2006 ) Ex-professional footballer and stand-up comedian

In the film Champagne Charlie, Leybourne was played by comedian Tommy Trinder, while Alfred Vance was played by Stanley Holloway.

* Charlie Chaplin's 1952 film Limelight, set in 1914 London, evokes the music hall world of Chaplin's youth where he performed as comedian before he achieved worldwide celebrity as a film star in America.

For his delivery of Dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries in 2010 as not only " the most significant theatrical figure of our time … the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin ".

Charlie Case ( died 1916 ) was a black-face comedian in America who wrote and sang vaudeville parodies of the 19th century ballad style.

Charlie Chaplin started his film career as a physical comedian ; although he developed additional means of comic expression, Chaplin's mature works continued to contain elements of slapstick.

Aisha N. Tyler ( born September 18, 1970 ) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and author, known for her regular role as Andrea Marino in the first season of Ghost Whisperer and voicing Lana Kane in Archer, as well as her recurring roles in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Talk Soup, and on Friends as Charlie Wheeler.

Chaplin strongly disliked the picture, but one review picked him out as " a comedian of the first water.

From the film industry, Chaplin drew upon the work of French comedian Max Linder, whose films he greatly admired.

As Hitler and his Nazi Party rose to prominence, Chaplin's popularity throughout the world became greater than ever ; he was mobbed by fans on a 1931 trip to Berlin, which annoyed the Nazis, who published a book in 1934 titled The Jews Are Looking at You, in which the comedian was described as " a disgusting Jewish acrobat " ( despite the fact that Chaplin was not Jewish ).

Chaplin was a long time admirer of French comedian Max Linder, who had died in October, 1925, and often borrowed gags and plot devices from Linder's films.

Finally, with Chaplin off the Essanay scene for good, Essanay signed French comedian Max Linder, whose clever pantomime was often compared to Chaplin's.

John Bunny made films for Vitagraph in the 1910s most of them co-starring Flora Finch, and was the most popular film comedian in the world in the years before Chaplin ; his death in 1915 was observed worldwide.

“ What makes Modern Times decidedly different from Chaplin's previous three films are the political references and social realism that keep intruding into Charlie's world .” “ No comedian before or after him has spent more energy depicting people in their working lives .” “ Though there had been films depicting the lives of immigrants and urban workers, no filmmaker before Chaplin had created their experience so humanly and lovingly .”

Every slapstick comedian from Charlie Chaplin onwards has relied on the physical joke being made at just the right time.

At his funeral, silent screen comedian Buster Keaton was overheard giving his assessment of the comedian's considerable talent: " Chaplin wasn't the funniest, I wasn't the funniest, this man was the funniest.

Humphries ' outlandish Australian caricatures, including Dame Edna Everage, Barry McKenzie and Les Patterson have starred in books, stage and screen to great acclaim over five decades and his biographer Anne Pender described him in 2010 as the most significant comedian since Charles Chaplin.

Earlier that year Charlie Chaplin, then the most popular comedian in the world, had left Essanay for more money and independence at Mutual Film and Spoor wanted to replace Chaplin with Max Linder.

Based on the life of comedian Charles Chaplin and named after his most famous character, it opens at the 1971 Academy Awards ceremony at which the aging star, long exiled from the United States, is about to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Josephine ( Josie ) Hannah Chaplin ( born March 28, 1949 in Santa Monica, California ) is an actress and the daughter of actor / comedian / director Charlie Chaplin and his last wife, Oona O ' Neill.

One of Lerner's cousins was the radio comedian / television game show panelist Henry Morgan.

Brooks was born in Beverly Hills, California, the son of Thelma Leeds ( née Goodman ), a singer and actress, and Harry Einstein, a radio comedian who performed on Eddie Cantor's radio program and was known as Parkyakarkus.

Bo Diddley himself said that the name first belonged to a singer his adoptive mother was familiar with, while harmonicist Billy Boy Arnold once said in an interview that it was originally the name of a local comedian that Leonard Chess borrowed for the song title and artist name for Bo Diddley's first single, and guitar craftsman Ed Roman reported that another ( unspecified ) source says it was his nickname as a Golden Gloves boxer.

He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent film comedian Max Linder, to whom he dedicated one of his films.

When they finished touring in July 1907, the 18-year-old was an accomplished comedian.

" He was not used in a picture until late January, during which time the comedian attempted to learn the processes of filmmaking.

" The comedian made statements to the press in which he claimed money was not his main concern, but that he was " simply making hay while the sun shines.

Love was also romantically linked to British comedian Steve Coogan in the mid-2000s.

Danny Kaye ( born David Daniel Kaminsky ; 18 January 1913 – 3 March 1987 ) was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian.

His extreme politeness was recalled by a member of the family he worked for ; she declared that the family referred to him as " Laurel " after the film comedian.

This was to avoid association with comedian Steve Martin.

Julius Henry " Groucho " Marx ( October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977 ) was an American comedian and film and television star.

Musical comedian Victor Borge often referred to the famous composer as " Joe Green " in his act, saying that " Giuseppe Verdi " was merely his " stage name ".

The " patter " baritone ( or " principal comedian ", as these roles later were called ) would often assume the leading role in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and was usually allotted the speedy patter songs.

Graham Arthur Chapman ( 8 January 1941 – 4 October 1989 ) was an English comedian, writer, actor, and one of the six members of the surreal comedy group Monty Python.

He was obviously a very good comedian and was ahead of his time.

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