They had been there six months when Chaplin's manager received a telegram, asking " Is there a man named Chaffin in your company or something like that " with the request that that this comedian contact the New York Motion Picture Company.

The first man that ever did a scat number in history of this country was a man from Vicksburg, Mississippi, by the name of Joe Sims, an old comedian.

His performance that night was about a blind man who tries to become a comedian and Ullman later recalled that although there were flashier performances that night, Castellaneta made her cry.

* A sketch in an episode of the Canadian TV series The Kids in the Hall features an attempt to stage the act, which is foiled by a straight man ( Dave Foley ) who is at first inattentive, and then outsmarts the joke by explaining, in tedious detail, why the other comedian was confused.

" A Taste of Freedom " and Bender's Game indicate that Zoidberg harbored a childhood dream of working in show business as a comedian or song-and-dance man, but that his parents pushed him to become a doctor.

Jimmy O ' Dea, the well known comedian, acted as Lemass's best man.

Louis Tully was originally conceived as a conservative man in a business suit played by comedian John Candy ; but with Candy unable to commit to the role, it was taken by Rick Moranis who portrayed Louis as a geek.

At the outset of his high-profile career as comedian and song-and-dance man, young Haines already had a reputation for eccentricity and dominant stage presence, suggesting that Sparkish is not merely a comic butt for the truewits Horner, Harcourt, and Dorilant to mock, but also a real threat to the romance of Harcourt and Alithea.

Their original writers Dick Hills and Sid Green took a relatively straightforward approach, depicting " Eric " as an aggressive, knockabout comedian and " Ernie " as an essentially conventional and somewhat disapproving straight man.

The critic Kenneth Tynan noted that, with Braben as writer, Morecambe and Wise had a unique dynamic — Ernie was a comedian who wasn ’ t funny, while Eric was a straight man who was funny.

The typical music hall comedian was a man or woman, usually dressed ' in character ' to suit the subject of the song, or sometimes attired in absurd and eccentric style.

: Rodney Recloose, a wild man with a purple mohawk and a Marine Corps tattoo ( and a facial resemblance to comedian Rodney Dangerfield ) who runs a skate shop in the game, and his son Bionic Lester, an even wilder kid with a green flattop, who you were able to take on in the joust and the downhill jam.

Created by and starring comedian Sean Masterson, the creator behind Generate's critically lauded Web series Home Purchasing Club, Republicrats follows Masterson as a former weather man who forms the " Republicrat " party and runs as the party's presidential candidate.

Stern's reaction was swift and vindictive, and Kinison eventually apologized, but not before comedian Gilbert Gottfried and Stern ridiculed an emotionally charged phone call between Stern and Kinison, in which both stars used the words " man " and " dude " so often that the playback was used as a bit on the show.

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.

A man with ' an extremely small face ', called Trevor ( comedian Trevor Lock ), and a woman called Nathalie, played by Nathalie Brandon, would appear on each show in non-speaking roles as slaves, often to bring in props or to usher in guests or other performers.

During the last role he was cited by the popular press as the man who sacked comedian Benny Hill when the company decided not to renew his contract after a connection lasting 20 years.

In his comedic film entitled Sanky Panky, audiences follow the life of a young Dominican man named Genaro ( played by Dominican comedian Fausto Mata ) who travels to Bávaro to work at a resort in hopes of finding a " gringa " or a white American woman who will give him a visa.

Syd Little ( born Cyril Mead on 19 December 1942 ) is an English comedian and was once the straight man in the double act Little and Large, with Eddie Large.

On 21 September 2006, Blair and comedian Alan Carr helped save a man about to fall from a pier in Blackpool.

In the mid-1950s Russell joined forces with the popular movie comedian Mantan Moreland for a stage act, replacing Ben Carter as Moreland's dapper straight man.

He stayed in vaudeville for several years as a singer and straight man to comedian ( Fat ) Jack E. Leonard, before moving in 1948, with his Canadian dancer wife and family to Vancouver where he hosted his own radio show for CBC Radio.

Foster Brooks ( May 11, 1912 – December 20, 2001 ) was an American actor and comedian most famous for his portrayal of a lovable drunken man in nightclub performances and television programs.

Moe Howard of the Three Stooges recalled in 1975 that Sullivan had a memory problem of sorts: " Ed was a very nice man, but for a showman, quite forgetful.

The man behind the Frisbee's phenomenal success, however, was Edward " Steady Ed " Headrick ( Pasadena, Cal., June 28, 1924 — La Selva Beach, Cal., August 12, 2002 ), hired in 1964 as Wham-O's new general manager and vice president in charge of marketing.

In the fall of 1934, CBS launched its independent news division, shaped in its first years by Paley's vice-president, former The New York Times man Ed Klauber, and news director Paul White.

He signed to star in the American revisionist western Hang ' Em High ( 1968 ), featuring alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur, playing a man who takes up a Marshal's badge and seeks revenge as a lawman after being lynched by vigilantes and left for dead.

They had heard from their neighbor, Ed " old man " Frink, that Ike had been stirring up trouble in town overnight, and they had ridden into town on horseback to back up their brothers.

It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown ( the Man ), the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and ( until his suicide late in the third season ) Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job.

Also, a New Zealander might say, " Sir Ed brought a lot of mana to the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuit Centre " ( OPC ) meaning that it has mana because of its association with a man of great mana.

Ed reaches the top and hides out until the next morning, when he sees the man he was looking for standing on the cliff holding a rifle, looking down into the gorge where Lewis and Bobby are hiding.

The man reaches the wounded Ed and is about to kill him when he collapses, revealing Ed's arrow sticking through the man's neck.

Ed remembers that the hillbilly who tried to assault him had no front teeth, and upon initial examination, the dead man seems to have all of them.

Bobby asks more than once if Ed is certain the dead man is the same as the one they confronted earlier.

Besides a grocery store being established by Mr. Robb, a large lumber yard and hardware store was located by Brown and Biggs, an ice house with a dance hall above it, a frontier saloon, a newspaper, " The LaGrange Index ," said to be set up by a man named John R. Smith, a cheese factory was located by a Mr. Hendrickson, the milk being supplied by Wyoming and Nebraska settlers ; a large grist mill was built on the banks of Horse Creek on the present Ed Johnson place, where homesteaders brought wheat and corn to be made into flour and meal.

In 1990 Newsweek reported Alabama Assistant Attorney General Ed Carnes calling Leuchter's views on the gas chamber " unorthodox " and alleging that " Leuchter was running a death row shakedown scheme: if a state didn't purchase Leuchter's services, he would testify at the last minute for the condemned man that the state's death chamber might malfunction.

When John was appointed, Chevrolet was having financial and organizational troubles, and GM president Ed Cole needed a first-class manager in that position to sort things out – company man or not.

There he also heard about the man he felt was the right man for the job, Ed Catmull.

When the show moved to California, two new members joined the cast: Ed Marinaro as Sonny St. Jacques, a stunt man, landlord of the Burbank apartment building, and love interest for Laverne, as well as Leslie Easterbrook as Rhonda Lee, the girls ' neighbor and an aspiring actress.

Ed Barrow: Frazee's right-hand man, Barrow served as general manager and field manager.

Well hidden beneath the many layers of bluster however, is a soft-hearted man who loves his wife and is devoted to his best pal, Ed Norton.

According to Earp, Holliday was playing poker with a well-liked local man named Ed Bailey.

The film is about a naive middle-aged man ( played by The Hangover actor Ed Helms ) who ventures out of his sheltered existence for the first time when he ’ s forced to attend an insurance conference.

The Mounties get their man when Ed Sullivan brought his show to Toronto in 1963.

* Episode 6: At the mayoral debate, Ed challenges Mike to go over to a man and call him “ Mommy .” One problem: it turns out this man actually knows Mike.