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Australia
Australia (
/əˈstreɪljə/), officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent as well as the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area. Neighbouring countries include Indonesia, East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the north; the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east.
For at least 40,000 years before European settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who belonged to one or more of roughly 250 language groups. After discovery by Dutch explorers in 1606, Australia's eastern half was claimed by Great Britain in 1770 and settled through penal transportation to the colony of New South Wales from 26 January 1788. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades; the continent was explored and an additional five self-governing Crown Colonies were established.
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Brazil
i/brəˈzɪl/ (Portuguese: Brasil, IPA: [bɾaˈziw]), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: República Federativa do Brasil, listen (help·info)), is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people. It is the only Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas and the largest lusophone country in the world.
Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of 7,491 km (4,655 mi). It is bordered on the north by Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and the French overseas region of French Guiana; on the northwest by Colombia; on the west by Bolivia and Peru; on the southwest by Argentina and Paraguay and on the south by Uruguay. Numerous archipelagos form part of Brazilian territory, such as Fernando de Noronha, Rocas Atoll, Saint Peter and Paul Rocks, and Trindade and Martim Vaz. It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile.
Brazil was a colony of Portugal from the landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500 until 1815, when it was elevated to the rank of kingdom and the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves was formed. The colonial bond was in fact broken in 1808, when the capital of the Portuguese colonial empire was transferred from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after Napoleon invaded Portugal.Independence was achieved in 1822 with the formation of the Empire of Brazil, a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system. The country became a presidential republic in 1889, when a military coup d'état proclaimed the Republic, although the bicameral legislature, now called Congress, dates back to the ratification of the first constitution in 1824. Its current Constitution, formulated in 1988, defines Brazil as a Federal Republic. The Federation is formed by the union of the Federal District, the 26 States, and the 5,564 Municipalities.
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Florida
Florida (i/ˈflɒrɪdə/) is a state in the southeastern United States, bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. Florida is the 22nd most extensive, the 4th most populous, and the 8th most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state capital is Tallahassee, its largest city is Jacksonville, and the South Florida metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the southeastern U.S.
Much of Florida is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida. Its geography is marked by a coastline, by the omnipresence of water and the threat of hurricanes. Florida has the longest coastline in the contiguous United States, encompassing approximately 1,350 miles (2,170 km), and is the only state to border both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Much of the state is at or near sea level and its terrain is characterized by sedimentary soils. The climate varies from subtropical in the north to tropical in the south. Its symbolic animals like the American alligator, Florida panther and the manatee, can be found in the Everglades, one of the most famous national parks in the world.
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Italyi/ˈɪtəli/ (Italian: Italia [iˈtaːlja]), officially the Italian Republic or the Republic of Italy (Italian: Repubblica italiana), is a unitary parliamentary republic in south-central Europe. To the north, it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia along the Alps. To the south, it consists of the entirety of the Italian Peninsula, Sicily, Sardinia–the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea–and many other smaller islands. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican City are enclaves within Italy, while Campione d'Italia is an Italian exclave in Switzerland. The territory of Italy covers some 301,338 km2 (116,347 sq mi) and is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. With 60.6 million inhabitants, it is the fifth most populous country in Europe, and the 23rd most populous in the world.
Rome, the capital of Italy, was for centuries a political and religious centre of Western civilisation as the capital of the Roman Empire and site of the Holy See. After the decline of the Roman Empire, Italy endured numerous invasions by foreign peoples, from Germanic tribes such as the Lombards and Ostrogoths, to the Byzantines and later, the Normans, among others. Centuries later, Italy became the birthplace of Maritime republics and the Renaissance, an immensely fruitful intellectual movement that would prove to be integral in shaping the subsequent course of European thought.
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Mexico
Mexico (i/ˈmɛksɨkoʊ/; Spanish: México, IPA: [ˈmexiko] (
listen)), officially the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos (help·info)), is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States of America; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Covering almost two million square kilometres (over 760,000 sq mi), Mexico is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the thirteenth largest independent nation in the world. With an estimated population of over 113 million, it is the eleventh most populous country and the most populous Spanish-speaking country. Mexico is a federation comprising thirty-one states and a Federal District, the capital city.
In Pre-Columbian Mexico many cultures matured into advanced civilizations such as the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, the Maya and the Aztec before the first contact with Europeans. In 1521, Spain conquered and colonized the territory from its base in México-Tenochtitlan, which was administered as the Viceroyalty of New Spain. This territory would eventually become Mexico as the colony's independence was recognized in 1821. The post-independence period was characterized by economic instability, the Mexican-American War and territorial cession to the United States, a civil war, two empires and a domestic dictatorship. The latter led to the Mexican Revolution in 1910, which culminated with the promulgation of the 1917 Constitution and the emergence of the country's current political system. Elections held in July 2000 marked the first time that an opposition party won the presidency from the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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MGM Grand Las Vegas
The MGM Grand Las Vegas is a hotel casino located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. The MGM Grand is the third largest hotel in the world and the largest hotel resort complex in the United States, ahead of The Venetian. when it opened in 1993, the MGM Grand was the largest hotel in the world.
Owned and operated by MGM Resorts International, the 30-floor main building is 293 ft (89 m) high. The property includes five outdoor pools, rivers, and waterfalls that cover 6.6 acres (2.7 ha), a 380,000 sq ft (35,000 m2) convention center, the MGM Grand Garden Arena, CBS Television City, and the Grand Spa. It also houses numerous shops and night clubs, 19 restaurants, and the largest casino in Clark County, which occupies 171,500 sq ft (15,930 m2).
Located on the Tropicana - Las Vegas Boulevard intersection, pedestrians are not allowed to cross at street level. Instead, the MGM Grand is linked by overhead pedestrian bridges to its neighboring casinos: to the south across Tropicana Avenue, the Tropicana, and to the west across the Strip, the New York-New York.
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The Netherlands (
i/ˈnɛðərləndz/; Dutch: Nederland [ˈneːdə(r)lɑnt] or [ˈneɪ̯də(r)lɑnt] (
listen); West Frisian: Nederlân; Papiamento: Hulanda) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with some islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. It is a parliamentary democracy organised as a unitary state. The country capital is Amsterdam and the seat of government is The Hague. The Netherlands in its entirety is often referred to as Holland, although North and South Holland are actually only two of its twelve provinces (a case of pars pro toto; see terminology of "the Netherlands").
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Old Brooklyn is a west side neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, extending east-to-west from the Cuyahoga River to the City of Brooklyn and north-to-south from the Brookside Park Valley to the City of Parma. Originally a portion of Brooklyn Township, the area was settled permanently in 1814 as the hamlet of Brighton, centered at the present-day intersection of Pearl and Broadview Roads. The Brighton area was incorporated as South Brooklyn Village in 1889 and then annexed with other surrounding villages by the City of Cleveland during the years of 1905-1927.
The first instance of European habitation, here, may have occurred prior to Brighton's founding, when fur trader Joseph Du Shattar established a trading post on the west bank of the Cuyahoga River, across from Newburgh, in about 1790.
During the late 1880s, farmers in the Schaaf Road area (now known as South Hills) were among the first in the Midwest to use greenhouses to cultivate vegetables. By the 1920s the neighborhood was one of the nation's leading producers of greenhouse vegetables, with more than 100 acres (0.40 km2) under glass. Most of the greenhouses were displaced, beginning about 1960, by new housing and the construction of Ohio Rt. 176 (Jennings Freeway).
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The Philippinesi/ˈfɪlɨpiːnz/ FI-lə-peenz (Filipino: Pilipinas [ˌpɪlɪˈpinɐs]), officially known as the Republic of the Philippines (Filipino: Republika ng Pilipinas) is a sovereign country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam. The Sulu Sea to the southwest lies between the country and the island of Borneo, and to the south the Celebes Sea separates it from other islands of Indonesia. It is bounded on the east by the Philippine Sea. Its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire and its tropical climate make the Philippines prone to earthquakes and typhoons but have also endowed the country with natural resources and made it one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world. An archipelago comprising 7,107 islands, the Philippines is categorized broadly into three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. Its capital city is Manila.
With an estimated population of about 98 million people, the Philippines is the 7th most populated Asian country and the 12th most populated country in the world. An additional 12.5 million Filipinos live overseas. Multiple ethnicities and cultures are found throughout the islands. In prehistoric times, Negritos were some of the archipelago's earliest inhabitants. They were followed by successive waves of Austronesian peoples who brought with them influences from Malay, Hindu, and Islamic societies. Trade introduced Chinese cultural influences which remain to this day.
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The Miami Herald
The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by The McClatchy Company headquartered on Biscayne Bay in the Omni district of Downtown Miami, Florida, United States. Founded in 1903, it is the largest newspaper in South Florida, serving Miami-Dade, Broward County and Monroe County, and circulates throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
The newspaper employs over 800 people in Miami and across several bureaus, including Bogotá, Managua, Tallahassee, Vero Beach, Key West, and shared space in McClatchy's Washington bureau. Its newsroom staff of about 450 includes 144 reporters, 69 editors, 69 copy editors, 29 photographers, five graphic artists (not including page designers), 11 columnists, six critics, 48 editorial specialists, and 18 news assistants. In June 2009, The Miami Herald announced widespread layoffs in June 2008, with plans to cut 250 full-time jobs—17 percent of the newspaper's workforce.
The newspaper has been awarded 20 Pulitzer Prizes since beginning publication in 1903. Well-known columnists are Pulitzer-winning political commentator Leonard Pitts, Jr., humorist Dave Barry and novelist Carl Hiaasen. Other columnists include Fred Grimm and Edwin Pope. David Landsberg is the publisher, and Aminda Marqués Gonzalez is the executive editor.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
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Walt Disney World
Coordinates: 28°25′7″N 81°34′52″W / 28.41861°N 81.58111°W / 28.41861; -81.58111
The Walt Disney World Resort (also known informally as Disney World) is the world's most-visited entertainment resort. Located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, approximately 21 miles (34 km) southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States, the resort covers an area of 30,080 acres (12,173 ha; 47 sq mi) and includes four theme parks, two water parks, 23 on-site themed resort hotels (excluding eight more that are on-site, but not owned by the Walt Disney Company), including a campground, two spas and physical fitness centers, five golf courses, and other recreational venues and entertainment.
The resort was originally developed by Walt Disney in the 1960s to supplement Disneyland in California. In addition to hotels and a theme park similar to Disneyland, Walt's original plans for the resort also included an "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow", a planned city that would serve as a test bed for new innovations for city living. After extensive lobbying, the Government of Florida created the Reedy Creek Improvement District, a special government district that essentially gave the Disney Company the standard powers and autonomy of an incorporated city. Walt died in 1966 before his original plans were fully realized.
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White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical style. It has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson moved into the house in 1801, he (with architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe) expanded the building outward, creating two colonnades that were meant to conceal stables and storage.
In 1814, during the War of 1812, the mansion was set ablaze by the British Army in the Burning of Washington, destroying the interior and charring much of the exterior. Reconstruction began almost immediately, and President James Monroe moved into the partially reconstructed house in October 1817. Construction continued with the addition of the South Portico in 1824 and the North in 1829. Because of crowding within the executive mansion itself, President Theodore Roosevelt had all work offices relocated to the newly constructed West Wing in 1901. Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded. The third-floor attic was converted to living quarters in 1927 by augmenting the existing hip roof with long shed dormers. A newly constructed East Wing was used as a reception area for social events; Jefferson's colonnades connected the new wings. East Wing alterations were completed in 1946, creating additional office space. By 1948, the house's load-bearing exterior walls and internal wood beams were found to be close to failure. Under Harry S. Truman, the interior rooms were completely dismantled and a new internal load-bearing steel frame constructed inside the walls. Once this work was completed, the interior rooms were rebuilt.
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Abdullah the Butcher
Lawrence Robert "Larry" Shreve (born on January 11, 1941) best known as Abdullah the Butcher, and also at times The Madman from the Sudan, is a semi-retired Canadian professional wrestler known as one of the most brutal or "hardcore" professional wrestlers of all-time.
The scars on his forehead are the result of frequent blading. According to Mick Foley, Shreve used to put gambling chips into the deep divots in his head to entertain (or scare) people at casinos. However, New Jack claimed in his RF Video shoot interview that the grooves in Shreve's head were surgically implemented.
An amateur martial artist, Shreve also has knowledge of judo and karate, often including this knowledge in his professional wrestling matches. This knowledge was mainly displayed by him using judo style throws, and karate chops.
Shreve grew up in Windsor, Ontario, Canada as part of a family of ten people in a deeply impoverished household. He learned karate and judo as a youth and, teaching fellow children in the backyard, claims to have eventually earned the title of seventh-degree grandmaster.
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Adrian Hanauer
Adrian Hanauer is an American businessman and minority owner and general manager of the Seattle Sounders FC.
Hanauer's family owns Pacific Coast Feather Co., a down pillow, feather bed, and high-end bedding products manufacturer that was originally founded in 1884 in Germany, but currently headquartered in Seattle. While Hanauer never held an executive position within the company, he began working at the company at 13.
Hanauer founded Museum Quality Framing, which is a chain of custom frame stores in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, in 1988. Hanauer is also the owner of a chain of pizza stores called Mad Pizza. As an early investor in aQuantive, an online based advertising company, Hanauer turned a substantial profit when the company went public in 2000 and again when Microsoft purchased the company in 2007.
He became the managing partner for the USL Seattle Sounders in 2002 and began reducing the financial losses the team was taking, $1 million per year for the five years proceeding Hanauer's taking over the team, and reduced the losses to $350,000 per year. The team also attained success on the field under Hanauer's leadership, going 23-4-1 in his first season, the second best record in USL history, and made it to the league championship game three times, winning it twice. Hanauer also began working on getting a Major League Soccer team in Seattle. The league passed over Seattle in 2004, choosing instead to expand to better prepared Salt Lake City. Hanauer invested $250,000 for a 15 percent stake in an English soccer team, Cambridge United FC, in May 2007.
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André the Giant
André René Roussimoff (19 May 1946 – 27 January 1993), best known as André the Giant, was a French professional wrestler and actor. His best remembered acting role was that of Fezzik, the giant in the film The Princess Bride. His size was a result of acromegaly, and led to him being called "The Eighth Wonder of the World".
In the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE), Roussimoff was a one-time WWF Champion and a one-time WWF World Tag Team Champion. In 1993, he was the first inductee into the WWF Hall of Fame.
André Roussimoff was born in Grenoble, France to parents of Bulgarian and Polish ancestry. As a child, he very early displayed symptoms of his gigantism, reaching a height of 6'3" (190.5 cm) and weight of 240 pounds (110 kg) by age 12. Unable to fit on the school bus, he was driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett, a friend of his father. Roussimoff was a good student, but he dropped out after the 8th grade since he did not think having a high school education was necessary for a farm laborer. He then worked on a farm, completed an apprenticeship in woodworking, and next worked in a factory that manufactured engines for hay balers. None of these brought him any satisfaction.
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Antonino Rocca
Antonino Rocca (born Antonino Biasetton, April 13, 1927 – March 15, 1977) was an Italian professional wrestler. Rocca was a popular face and in some cities with both Italian-American and especially Hispanic audiences, his following was exceptionally large and loyal. He also possessed Argentinian citizenship.
He had a love for opera and was apparently described as having an excellent - if untrained - singing voice. Maestro Arturo Toscanini, a wrestling fan, was good friends with Rocca.
As a soccer and rugby-player when he moved to Argentina, before World War II, and an overall athlete, Rocca was known for his unique, acrobatic, off-the-ground, flying wrestling style, which he probably invented, wowing audiences with his dazzling aerial maneuvers. He was responsible for the revival of the New York City Metropolitan-Area territory in the late 1940s, which would eventually become part of the modern day World Wrestling Entertainment. Rocca became one of the most well-known wrestlers in America during the golden age of television. He also had a successful tag team career, forming a popular tandem with Miguel Pérez. The two, along with their heel (villain) opponents, drew large crowds to Madison Square Garden on a regular basis. Rocca had an uninterrupted seven-year run of headlining or co-headlining every main-event at the Garden.
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Antonio Inoki
Antonio Inoki (アントニオ猪木?) (born Kanji Inoki (猪木寛至, Inoki Kanji?) on February 20, 1943) is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who now resides between New York City and Tokyo. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yukes. He fashioned his name after the wrestler Antonino Rocca as an homage to him.
Inoki was born in an affluent family in Yokohama in 1943. He was the sixth son and the second youngest of the seven boys and four girls. His father, Sajiro Inoki, a businessman and politician, died when Kanji was five years old. Inoki entered the Higashidai Grade School. Inoki was taught karate by an older brother while in 6th grade. By the time he was in 7th grade at Terao Junior High School, he was 180 centimeters tall and joined the basketball team. He later quit and joined a track and field club as a shot putter. He eventually won the championship at the Yokohama Junior High School track and field competition.
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Arn Anderson
Martin Anthony Lunde (born September 20, 1958) better known by his ring name Arn Anderson, is a former American professional wrestler and author. His career has been highlighted by his alliances with Ric Flair and various members of the wrestling stable, The Four Horsemen, in the NWA/WCW. He currently serves as the senior producer for WWE's Raw brand. On March 31, 2012, Anderson was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Horsemen.
Lunde began his career in early 1982, spending much of the year wrestling in various independent wrestling companies across the United States. By the middle of 1983, he made his way to Southeastern Championship Wrestling, an NWA affiliated promotion operating out of Tennessee and Alabama. Taking the name of "Super Olympia", Lunde soon became a member of Ron Fuller's Stud Stable before the year was out. Lunde saw success in the tag team ranks by winning the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship three times with Mr. Olympia and once with Buddy Rose throughout 1984. By the end of the year, however, Lunde left the company and joined Mid South Wrestling based out of Shreveport. Lunde's time in Mid South was coming to an end and during a TV taping the Junk Yard Dog mentioned to Bill Watts, the owner of Mid South Wrestling, that Lunde looked like an Anderson. Watts called Jim Crockett and convinced him to book Lunde.
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Arnold Skaaland
Arnold Skaaland (January 21, 1925 – March 13, 2007) was an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager.
Skaaland served in the U.S. Marines during World War II. After a short-lived attempt to make a living through boxing, he became a professional wrestler and debuted in 1946 as "Arnold Skaaland". Though competing under his real name, he was billed early in his career as hailing from Norway. Skaaland gained the nickname "The Golden Boy" and was known as a small, agile wrestler who relied on speed, wits, and toughness in the ring rather than size and strength.
In the late 1950s, he wrestled in Georgia under the ring name Bobby Weaver. In the early 1960s, Skaaland unsuccessfully challenged both Pat O'Connor and "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. In 1962, he refereed a match between Freddie Blassie and Rikidōzan in Japan.
In 1963, Skaaland was a part of the newly created, New York City-based World Wide Wrestling Federation. On June 1, 1967 he collected his only title as one half of the WWWF United States Tag Team Champions, when Tony Parisi gave his half of the title to Skaaland. Skaaland and his partner, Spiros Arion, soon lost the titles to The Sicilians (Lou Albano and Tony Altimore) on July 10, 1967 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Arion and Bruno Sammartino rewon the belts two weeks later, and retired them.
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Barry Windham
Barry Clinton Windham (born July 4, 1960) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and the son of wrestler Blackjack Mulligan. He is best known for his appearances with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
In NWA/WCW, he was a one-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, a one-time United States Heavyweight Champion, a one-time Television Champion, a one-time Western States Heritage Champion, a four-time NWA (Mid Atlantic)/WCW World Tag Team Champion and a one-time NWA United States Tag Team Champion with Ron Garvin. In WWF, he was a two-time World Tag Team Champion with his brother-in-law, Mike Rotunda. On March 31, 2012, Windham was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Horsemen.
Windham was trained by his father Blackjack Mulligan and popular world champion Harley Race. He debuted on November 27, 1979 against J.J. Dillion in Odessa, Texas when he was 19 years old. Much of his early career was in the NWA's Championship Wrestling from Florida territory where Gordon Solie was the head announcer. He was a fan favorite for most of the early and middle periods of his career, having great success in singles and tag action. Windham had notable feuds with Kevin Sullivan and his army. With his brother-in-law Mike Rotunda, Windham formed a tag team in 1984. The duo captured the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship three times between March and May 1984.
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Big John Studd
John William Minton (February 19, 1948 – March 20, 1995) was an American professional wrestler and actor who was born and raised in Butler, Pennsylvania, better known by his ring name, Big John Studd.
Big John Studd stood 6'6" and weighed around 295 - 300 pounds. He was trained by wrestling legend Killer Kowalski. Together, Studd and Kowalski won the WWF Tag Team Championship in 1976 as the Masked Executioners.
After leaving the WWF, Studd became known as Chuck O'Connor, Captain USA, and The Masked Superstar II at certain points in the Mid-Atlantic territory. In 1978, Studd teamed with Ken Patera to win the Mid-Atlantic Tag Team titles. Studd was actually in the WWWF before his stint as Executioner #2 in 1976. He was then known as Chuck O'Connor and he feuded with El Olympico.
Studd also made occasional trips to Canada to wrestle in Emile Duprée's Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling.
On May 25, 1980, Masked Superstar II was unmasked after a match with Blackjack Mulligan in Toronto. After this, Studd was brought into Florida by J.J. Dillon and feuded with Dusty Rhodes, Barry Windham (the son of Blackjack Mulligan), and Sweet Brown Sugar.
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Bill Cullen
William Lawrence Francis "Bill" Cullen (February 18, 1920 – July 7, 1990) was an American radio and television personality whose career spanned five decades. He was best known for television game shows, having hosted multiple series (including Place the Face, the original The Price Is Right, the syndicated The $25,000 Pyramid, and Blockbusters) and served as a panelist on I've Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth.
Cullen was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the only child of William and Lillian Cullen. He survived a childhood bout with polio that left him with significant physical limitations for the rest of his life (see medical history). He also wore very thick spectacles, which became a trademark.
Cullen's career began in Pittsburgh, where he worked at WWSW radio. He assisted sportscaster Joe Tucker, who called Pittsburgh Steelers games. He was well known for his puckish sense of humor and for playing pranks on his fellow announcers while they were on the air. Cullen decided to try his luck in New York and one of his first jobs was writing for the Easy Aces radio show.
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Bill Todman
William S. "Bill" Todman (July 31, 1916 – July 29, 1979) was an American television producer born in New York City. He produced many of television's longest running shows with business partner Mark Goodson.
Bill Todman was the son of the legendary and highly respected Wall Street accountant Frederick S. Todman, CPA. The Accounting firm was known as Frederick S. Todman & Co. and for many years was located at 111 Broadway, located next door to Trinity Church. Frederick S. Todman & Co represented some of the United States biggest companies, including The New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Polaroid, Eastman Kodak, Chase Manhattan Bank among many others. Frederick S. Todman lectured in post WWII Japan as part of that country's economic reconstruction and wrote several quintiseential books on Wall Street Accounting. Todman's brother Howard was Vice President and Treasurer for Goodson-Todman Productions.
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Bill Watts
William F. "Bill" Watts (born May 5, 1939) is a former American professional wrestler and promoter. Watts was famous under his "Cowboy" gimmick in his wrestling career, and then as a tough, no-nonsense promoter in the Mid-South area of the United States, which grew to become the UWF.
In 1992, he was the Executive Vice President of World Championship Wrestling but after clashes with management over a number of issues as well as feeling pressure from Hank Aaron over a racially sensitive piece of correspondence, he resigned. He was subsequently replaced by Ole Anderson who was then succeeded by Eric Bischoff.
As a professional wrestler, he famously feuded with WWWF Champion Bruno Sammartino, but was unable to win away the belt. In the 1960s, he wrestled in many areas, such as San Francisco, Chicago, St. Louis, and even Japan, for All Japan Pro Wrestling. During these periods, Watts challenged for both the National Wrestling Alliance and American Wrestling Association versions of the World Title.
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Blackjack Mulligan
Robert Jack Windham (born November 26, 1942), better known by his ring name Blackjack Mulligan is a former professional wrestler and a former American football player. He is the father of wrestlers Barry and Kendall Windham, father-in-law of Mike Rotundo, and the grandfather of Bray Wyatt and Bo Dallas.
As a young man, Windham played football at the Texas Western University. He then went on to play for the New York Jets during the 1966 pre-season and received tryouts with the New Orleans Saints and Denver Broncos. After football, at the urging of Wahoo McDaniel, Windham trained with Joe Blanchard in Corpus Christi, Texas and later with Verne Gagne and became a professional wrestler in the American Wrestling Association. He then moved to the World Wide Wrestling Federation and became the villain Blackjack Mulligan. At first Mulligan, donning black trunks, black hat, black glove, and using the iron claw submission hold, seemed to be an imitation of AWA wrestler Blackjack Lanza, managed by The Grand Wizard. Mulligan went on to greater success in the Northeast. He received a push and went on to wrestle Pedro Morales and Bruno Sammartino.
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Blake Clark
Blake Clark (born February 2, 1946) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, and veteran of the Vietnam War, having served as a first lieutenant with the 5th Infantry Division.[citation needed]
In the Toy Story series, Clark is the present-day voice of Slinky Dog, filling in for the late Jim Varney.
Clark was born and raised in Macon, Georgia, on February 2, 1946. He graduated from LaGrange College in 1969 with a degree in the performing arts.
Clark is frequently cast in numerous Adam Sandler films including The Waterboy, Little Nicky, Mr. Deeds, Eight Crazy Nights, 50 First Dates, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, Bedtime Stories, and Grown Ups. He has also appeared in numerous television guest appearances including Home Improvement, Boy Meets World, The Jamie Foxx Show, and The Drew Carey Show. Clark is also the current voice of Slinky Dog in the Toy Story franchise, replacing the deceased Jim Varney, who was his close friend.
Clark was a close friend of Jim Varney (who is best known for playing Ernest); until his 2000 death. When Toy Story 3 was still in production, Pixar, upon finding out that Jim Varney had died, searched frantically for someone who sounded like Varney, and were lucky to find Clark, who "had the spirit of Slinky."
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Bob Armstrong
Joseph Melton James (born October 3, 1939) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, "Bullet" Bob Armstrong. In the course of his career, which spanned five decades, Armstrong held numerous championships throughout the Southeastern United States. Armstrong is also the patriarch of the Armstrong wrestling family; he has four sons (Scott, Brad, Steve and Brian), all of whom became wrestlers.
When he was a child, Joseph James's father took him to see Gorgeous George wrestle. The young James was impressed and intrigued by the flamboyant performer. As a young man, James served in the Marine Corps of the United States armed forces and was stationed in Korea. During his recruit training in Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island on Parris Island, South Carolina, James was named Honor Man. After leaving the military, he began working for the Marietta Fire Department as a firefighter in 1962.
He debuted as a wrestler in the same year, adopting the ring name "Bob Armstrong". By 1966, Armstrong had become a popular face in the Savannah, Georgia area, and in 1969 he ceased working as a firefighter and began focusing on his wrestling career.
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Bob Barker
Robert William "Bob" Barker (born December 12, 1923) is a former American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007, making it the longest-running daytime game show in North American television history, and for hosting Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975.
Born in Washington to modest circumstances, Barker enlisted in the United States Navy on the outbreak of World War II. Barker worked part-time in radio while he attended college. In 1950, Barker moved to California in order to pursue a career in broadcasting. He was given his own radio show, The Bob Barker Show, which ran for the next six years out of Burbank. Barker began his game show career in 1956, hosting Truth or Consequences. From there, he hosted various game shows as well as the Miss Universe pageants. Eventually, he hosted The Price Is Right, beginning in 1972. When his wife Dorothy Jo died, Barker became an advocate for animal rights. Since then, Barker has been a long-time supporter of animal rights, and of animal-rights activism, including groups such as the United Activists for Animal Rights and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. In 2007, Barker retired from hosting The Price Is Right after celebrating his 50-year career on television.
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Bob Uecker
Robert George "Bob" Uecker ( /ˈjuːkər/ EWK-ər; born January 26, 1935) is a retired American Major League Baseball player, later a sportscaster, comedian and actor. Uecker was given the title of "Mr. Baseball" by TV chat show host Johnny Carson. Since 1971 Uecker has served as a play-by-play announcer for Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcasts.
Though he sometimes joked he was born on an oleo run to Illinois, Uecker was raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He grew up watching the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers at Borchert Field. He signed a professional contract with his hometown Milwaukee Braves in 1956 and made his major league debut as a catcher with the club in 1962. A mediocre hitter, he finished with a career batting average of .200. He was generally a sound defensive player and committed very few errors in his Major League career as a catcher, completing his career with a fielding percentage of .981. However, in 1967, despite playing only 59 games, he led the league with passed balls and is still on the top ten list for most passed balls in a season. At least a partial explanation is that he spent a good deal of the season catching Knuckleballer Phil Niekro. Uecker also played for the St. Louis Cardinals (and was a member of the 1964 World Champion club) and Philadelphia Phillies before returning to the Braves, who had by then moved to Atlanta. His six-year major league career concluded in 1967.
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Bob Warman
Bob Warman (born 11 October 1946) is a British television presenter, born in Walsall, West Midlands (then Staffordshire).
Between the ages of 13 and 18, Warman attended Wrekin College in Wellington, Shropshire. He has spent most of his television career at ATV and Central, presenting regional news programmes.
He was also a regional presenter on Yorkshire Television from 1976 to 1979. During this time he presented Britain's first breakfast programme Good Morning Calendar in 1977.
In 1979 Bob Joined Associated Television to work on ATV News, and when ATV became Central in 1982, Warman presented the West edition of Central News.
In 1989, he hosted the Sky TV version of The Price Is Right.
From February 2009, Warman now presents the new pan-regional edition of Central Tonight week nights alongside Sameena Ali-Khan. As well as this, he also presents the later sub-regional edition of Central Tonight from Monday to Wednesday and also on Thursday and Friday alternate weeks. In February 2012 he signed to a part-time contract and so shares duties with Matt Teale.
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Bobby Heenan
Raymond Louis "Ray" Heenan (born November 1, 1944), better known as Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, is a former American professional wrestling manager and color commentator, best known for his time with the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He was known for his skill in drawing heel heat for himself and his wrestlers, and for his on-screen repartee with Gorilla Monsoon as a color commentator. World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE, formerly WWF) has described Heenan as "one of sports-entertainment's best loved legends".
Heenan was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004 by Blackjack Lanza.
Always a fan of wrestling growing up in Chicago and Indianapolis, Heenan started in the wrestling profession early on, carrying bags and jackets for the wrestlers, and selling refreshments at the events. Dropping out of school in the eighth grade to support his mother and grandmother, Heenan's first break in the wrestling business was as a heel manager and wrestler in 1965 when he was known as "Pretty Boy" Bobby Heenan. His gimmick over the years has more or less remained the same, a tough talking big mouth who cowered in fear when being physically confronted. At the time, heels were often given managers to speak for them in interviews, rile up the crowd during matches, and cheat on their behalf. Bobby "The Brain" Heenan went on to manage some of the most successful wrestlers in the world, creating "The Heenan Family", a stable that existed in several different incarnations and wrestling promotions for over 20 years. Heenan did not like the term "stable", stating that it should only refer to a place to keep horses.[citation needed]
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Bobo Brazil
Houston Harris (July 10, 1923 — January 20, 1998) was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Bobo Brazil. Even though he is "Bobo", a promoter mispronounced it and it stuck .He is credited with breaking down barriers of racial segregation in professional wrestling. Harris is considered one of the first successful African American professional wrestlers, and is often referred to as "the Jackie Robinson of professional wrestling".
Houston Harris was born in Little Rock, Arkansas but later lived in East St. Louis, Illinois, and Benton Harbor, Michigan. He played baseball and worked in a steel mill.
Harris was trained by Joe Savoldi after meeting him at matches at the Naval Armory. Originally, Harris was to be known as "Boo-Boo Brazil", but a promoter misprinted his first name as "Bobo" in an advertisement and it stuck.
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Brad Sherwood
Bradley "Brad" Sherwood (born November 24, 1964) is an American actor and comedian. He has worked in entertainment as an actor, comedian, singer, writer, and producer.
Sherwood was born in Chicago, Illinois and later grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He began acting at the age of eight. He attended Santa Fe Preparatory School and graduated from the Young Puffaz Academy. He went on to graduate from Wright State University with a BFA in Acting. His first acting job was his recurring role on six episodes of L.A. Law. In 1994-1995, Brad was a cast member on the syndicated, sketch-comedy series The Newz.
In 1992, Sherwood became a recurring performer on three seasons of the British version of the award-winning improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He was the only actor to make it on the cast from the Los Angeles auditions. He starred on all eight seasons of the American, Emmy nominated version of Whose Line on ABC. Some people and cartoon characters he impersonated were Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Fred Schneider, Tom Arnold, Roger Daltrey, Willie Nelson, Yogi Bear, Jimmy Stewart and Jim Backus.
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Bret Hart
Bret Hart (born July 2, 1957) is a Canadian American writer, actor and retired professional wrestler currently signed with WWE under a Legends contract. Like others in the Hart wrestling family, Hart has an amateur wrestling background, including wrestling at Ernest Manning High School and Mount Royal College. Along with his famed "Hit Man" nickname, Hart was known by the monikers "The Excellence of Execution", "The Best There Is, The Best There Was, and The Best There Ever Will Be" and "The Pink and Black Attack"—the latter being in reference to his ring attire, as well as his signature mirrored sunglasses, which he routinely gave away to a young audience member before matches.
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Bruce Forsyth
Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE, (born 22 February 1928), commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV personality. He became known through the series Sunday Night at the London Palladium, going on to present television series such as The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right, The Price Is Right (UK), You Bet! and Strictly Come Dancing.
Forsyth was born in Edmonton, London, the son of Florence Ada (née Pocknell) and John Thomas Forsyth-Johnson. His family owned a car repair garage in Victoria Road, Edmonton, and as members of the Salvation Army his parents played brass instruments and his mother was a singer. His great grandfather Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840–1906) was a landscape architect who worked in Russia, Ireland and the United States. His great-great-great-great grandfather William Forsyth (1737–1804) was a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society and the namesake of the plant genus Forsythia.
Forsyth attended The Latymer School. After watching Fred Astaire in films at age eight, he trained in dance in Tottenham and then Brixton. He started in show business aged 14, with a song, dance, and accordion act called "Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom." His first appearance was at the Theatre Royal, Bilston, with The Great Marzo at the top of the bill. Forsyth made his television debut in 1939 as a child, singing and dancing on a talent show introduced by Jasmine Bligh, probably an episode of Come and Be Televised (BBC, 1939), broadcast from Radiolympia.
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Bruce Helford
Bruce Helford is an American television writer and producer.
Helford was the co-creator of The Drew Carey Show. He served as executive producer of the series for its entire run, from 1995 to 2004. Helford also served as executive producer and writer for Roseanne during season five of that series (1992–1993). He also created or co-created the series The Norm Show, Wanda at Large, Freddie, George Lopez,Nikki, and Bless This House.
For a period during the 1980s, Helford was the "Bits and Pieces" editor at Hustler magazine.
Beginning in 1995, Helford launched a vanity company, Mohawk Productions, to produce shows created or executive produced by him. Mohawk is affiliated with Warner Bros. Television.
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Carlo Boszhard
Carlo Boszhard (born 26 June 1969) is a Dutch TV personality, singer, impersonator, and host. His brother is Ron Boszhard.
His career started in 1989, hosting a part of the AVRO program "Pauze TV" (Break TV). In 1990, he switched to RTL 4, where he would present "De gek van de week-show" (The nut of the week-show), which wasn't successful. In 1991, Boszhard joined Irene Moors in hosting the television program "Hitbingo", but his career took off in 1993 with RTL 4's Telekids, co-starring Irene Moors, which rendered them both and the television show famous in the Netherlands.
His shows include Cash en Carlo, a Dutch adaptation of the American television game show, The Price Is Right, McCarlo and Monte Carlo, both of which featured Carlo singing with guest talents, and more notably, Life en Cooking for RTL 4.
Boszhard was a voice actor for the Dutch language versions of movies like Mulan, Ice Age, The Magic Voyage and Shrek.
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Caroline Quentin
Caroline Quentin (born Caroline Quentin 11 June 1960) is an English actress. Quentin — her stage name— became known for her television appearances in Men Behaving Badly, playing Dorothy, and playing Maddy Magellan in Jonathan Creek for three years.
Born on 11 June 1960 in Reigate, Surrey,[citation needed] Quentin was educated at the independent school, the Arts Educational School, in Tring, Hertfordshire and appeared locally in the Pendley Open Air Shakespeare Festival.[citation needed]
Quentin's early acting work included appearing on stage in the chorus of the original cast of the musical Les Misérables.
In July 1996, Quentin released a single, a cover of the Exciters' hit "Tell Him", with her Men Behaving Badly co-star Leslie Ash under the name of "Quentin and Ash". The single reached number 25 in the UK Charts and disappeared three weeks later. From 1997 until 2000 Quentin starred alongside Alan Davies in Jonathan Creek playing the character Maddie Magellan, an investigative journalist, who uses Jonathan's mind to solve murder mysteries.
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Chip Esten
Charles Esten Puskar III (born September 9, 1965) professionally known as Chip Esten, is an American comedian, actor and singer known for his appearances on the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
Esten is known by his nickname "Chip" in improv comedy shows but is always credited as "Charles Esten".
Esten was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania but moved to Alexandria, Virginia at age 9. He attended T.C. Williams High School and the College of William and Mary, where he was a brother of Theta Delta Chi. At William and Mary, he was the lead vocalist in the band N'est Pas from 1985 until 1988, one year after his graduation. After graduating from college and marrying his wife, Esten moved to the United Kingdom to make his theatrical debut, winning massive acclaim for his title role in the musical Buddy in the early 1990's.
In 1992, the makers of Whose Line Is It Anyway? asked him to audition for an episode, which he did successfully. Consequently, Esten made his debut on the Channel 4 show in the fourth series and "won" the episode. He subsequently appeared in more episodes later the same year when the show did a run in New York. At the time, the show needed a second specialist improvisational singer to fill in for Mike McShane.
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Chris Henderson
Christopher "Chris" Henderson (born December 11, 1970 in Edmonds, Washington) is a former American soccer midfielder who earned 79 caps with the U.S. national team. He was part of the U.S. team at the 1992 Summer Olympics and at the time of his retirement from Major League Soccer, he was the league's all-time leader in games played.
Henderson, older brother to Sean Henderson, attended Cascade High School in Everett, Washington. In 1989, he played a single season with the Seattle Storm of the Western Soccer League.
Henderson played two years of college soccer at UCLA, where he helped the team win a national championship his sophomore season. Upon graduating from college, Henderson played for German Second Division club FSV Frankfurt during the 1994-5 season. After the end of that season, he moved to the Norwegian league, where he trained with Stabæk during the winter.
At the end of the Norwegian season, Henderson returned to the U.S. and on March 11, 1996, the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer (MLS) named Henderson as a Discovery Player. He immediately stood out by starting 29 games, scoring 3 goals and 8 assists, and being named the Rapid's team MVP. Henderson spent the next two seasons with the Rapids, registering 9 goals and 22 assists over 51 games. He then moved to the Kansas City Wizards for the 1999 season, where he started 29 games, scoring 3 goals and 6 assists. Henderson was even better in 2000, scoring 9 goals and 9 assists as one of the major players in the Wizards team that won the MLS Cup.
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Chris Von Erich
Chris Barton Adkisson (September 30, 1969 – September 12, 1991) was an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring name Chris Von Erich of the Von Erich family.
The smallest and youngest of the Von Erich family, all Chris wanted to be was a wrestler. He was the youngest son of wrestler Fritz Von Erich. His brothers, Mike, David, Kerry and Kevin all had success as wrestlers. He grew up working cameras and doing other odd jobs backstage for WCCW.
He became a wrestler in 1990, but faced numerous issues. Aside from drug problems similar to his much older brothers, his asthma held him back and his bones were so brittle that he would often break them while performing simple wrestling maneuvers. He stayed with it as much as he could, and even had a small feud with Percy Pringle in the USWA. Chris tagged with both his brother Kevin and longtime ally Chris Adams in several tag team matches against Pringle and "Stunning" Steve Austin (later "Stone Cold" Steve Austin); however, he would face only Pringle whenever he was in the ring, and allow his more-experienced partner (Kevin or Adams) to battle Austin.
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Christa Miller
Christa Miller (born May 28, 1964) is an American actress who has achieved success in television comedy. Her foremost roles include Kate O'Brien on The Drew Carey Show and Jordan Sullivan on Scrubs (which was created by her husband Bill Lawrence). She has also appeared on Seinfeld, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and CSI: Miami. Since 2009, she has a starring role in the ABC sitcom Cougar Town, also created by husband Bill Lawrence.
Miller was born in Manhattan and attended the prestigious Convent of the Sacred Heart. She is the daughter of model Bonnie Trompeter; and is the niece of actress Susan Saint James and NBC sports executive Dick Ebersol. She has one brother, John. Miller was a model as a child, appearing in a Wonder Bread commercial when she was six months old, posing at three for Francesco Scavullo in an Ivory soap advertisement, and being photographed for the cover of Redbook.[citation needed] Her days as a child model were curtailed after an operation for a benign bone tumor. After attending Convent of the Sacred Heart, she returned briefly to modeling, but soon took acting lessons, and gave up modeling when she moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1990. She was cover model and had a pictorial in the first U.S. edition of Maxim.
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Clive Anderson
Clive Anderson (born 10 December 1952) is a British former barrister, best known for being a comedy writer as well as a radio and television presenter in the United Kingdom. Winner of a British Comedy Award in 1991, Anderson began his success during his 15-year law career with stand-up comedy and comedic script writing, before starring in Whose Line Is It Anyway? on BBC Radio 4, then later, Channel 4. He was also successful with a number of radio programmes, television interviews and guest appearances on Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week, QI and The Bubble.
Anderson was educated at Stanburn Primary School and Harrow County School for Boys in London, where his group of friends included Geoffrey Perkins and Michael Portillo. His Scottish father was manager of the Midland Bank's Wembley branch. Anderson attended Selwyn College, Cambridge where, from 1974 to 1975, he was President of Footlights. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1976 and became a practising barrister, specialising in criminal law.
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Colin Mochrie
Colin Andrew Mochrie (/ˈmɒkri/; born November 30, 1957) is a Scottish Canadian actor and improvisational comedian, most famous for his appearances on the British and U.S. versions of television improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
Colin Mochrie was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, the oldest of three children. He was shy as a child, stating that neighbours would have commented that he "watched way too much television." In 1964, his family moved to a French neighbourhood just outside Montreal, Quebec, and five years later moved again to Vancouver, British Columbia. Mochrie attended Killarney Secondary School, where he was a self-proclaimed loner who wanted to become a marine biologist. He was persuaded by a friend to try out for a play entitled The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch where Mochrie played the role of the undertaker. He was hooked when he got his first laugh, which paved the way for a career in entertainment. After graduating from high school, where he was valedictorian, Mochrie attended the Studio 58 theatre school in Vancouver for four years, where he discovered the art of improvisational comedy.
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Colin Sell
Colin Sell (born 1 December 1948) is a British pianist who has appeared on the radio panel games Whose Line Is It Anyway? and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He has become famous mostly for his long service on the latter show, where he is frequently the butt of the host's jokes. He is the Head of Music at East 15 Acting School, Essex [1]. Until 1998 he was Head of Music at Rose Bruford College, Sidcup and was instrumental in the creation of the BA (Hons) Actor-Musician course there. He occasionally provides live musical accompaniment for The Comedy Store Players, a comedy improvisation group based in The Comedy Store, London.
Sell was born in Purley, London and grew up in Croydon. He does not have a degree in music. He instead received a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of Bristol in 1971. He wrote music for the University's revues in the early 1970s, leading to performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where Simon Brett saw Sell perform and offered him the pianist position on Clue. He also appeared with the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre TIE company in the early 1970s, which also included two other well-known names; Elizabeth Estensen and Clive Hornby, both long-standing members of the Emmerdale cast.
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Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish-American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS. In addition to hosting that program and performing stand-up comedy, Ferguson has written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir. He became a citizen of the United States in 2008.
Before his career as a late-night television host, Ferguson was best known in the United States for his role as the office boss, Nigel Wick, on The Drew Carey Show from 1996 to 2003. He also wrote and starred in three films, directing one of them.
Ferguson was born in the Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn district of Glasgow, Scotland to Robert and Janet Ferguson, and raised in nearby Cumbernauld, growing up "chubby and bullied". When he was six months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn apartment to a council house in Cumbernauld. They lived there as Glasgow was re-housing many people following damage to the city from World War II. Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School. At age sixteen, Ferguson dropped out of Cumbernauld High School and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation.
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Curt Hennig
Curtis Michael "Curt" Hennig (March 28, 1958 – February 10, 2003) was an American professional wrestler, manager and color commentator who performed under his real name for the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA). In the WWF, he found his greatest success as Mr. Perfect, a nickname introduced in his second run with the company which gradually became his official ring name as use of his real name was phased out; Hennig used the same ring name in his third and final run, however his real name was widely acknowledged. He was the son of wrestler Larry "The Axe" Hennig, and father to current WWE (formerly the WWF) superstar Michael McGillicutty.
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David Von Erich
David Alan Adkisson (July 22, 1958 – February 10, 1984) was an American professional wrestler who competed as "The Yellow Rose of Texas" David Von Erich (of the Von Erich Family). He was the son of Fritz Von Erich and the brother of Jack Jr., Kerry, Kevin, Mike and Chris.
David was named after his mother Doris' brother David, who had died only months before David Von Erich was born in 1958. Doris' brother David had died of a brain tumor.
David, along with brothers Kevin and Kerry, loved to hunt and fish with their father; Fritz. Hunting on the Von Erich ranch was quite an event. Many of their relatives and friends would join in and sometimes the hunting group would be 20 or more. WCCW Referee David Manning and WCCW Announcer Bill Mercer were quite often among the group. David's first love in life was raising horses, which turned out to be very profitable for him. He raised and sold quarter horses and horses for show and made his own fortune that way, apart from the family business of wrestling.
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Dennis James
Dennis James (August 24, 1917 – June 3, 1997), born Demie James Sposa, was an American television personality, actor, and announcer. He is credited as the host of television's first network game show, the DuMont Network's Cash and Carry in 1946. James was the first person ever to host a telethon and to appear in a television commercial.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, James began his career in radio with WNEW (now WBBR) and moved to television in 1938, working for the soon-to-become-DuMont Television Network station WABD, which is now WNYW. (WABD helped to found the DuMont network in 1946.) James became the host of a few game shows, such as the ABC version of Chance of a Lifetime (1952–1953) and served as commentator for DuMont's wrestling and boxing shows, such as Boxing From Jamaica Arena (1948-1949). He hosted the DuMont daytime variety show Okay, Mother (1948–1951). James often addressed the TV audience as "Mother", a practice he had begun when discussing the finer points of wrestling during his sports broadcasts.
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Denny Siegel
Denny Siegel is an American actress, comedienne, and writer, probably best known for her role as a regular on the ABC-TV improv series Whose Line is it Anyway?. She has also appeared as a correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Before her stint on Whose Line?, she was a writer/performer on the sketch comedy show Quick Witz, which ran on NBC. Other TV credits include MTV F*UPS, PBS’s TV-411, and host of the Metro Channel’s Get Out of Town. She has also appeared in pilots for Terran Enterprises, Bravo and the WB.
Denny Siegel has an extensive corporate resume as a writer, host and performer, and has also written several DVDs for the corporate market. She has performed improv at various comedy festivals including The Montreal Comedy Festival, The Bass Red Triangle Comedy Tour, The Toyota Comedy Festival, and the Marshalls Women in Comedy Festival. She continues to perform comedy and theater at venues throughout Los Angeles, including The Improv and The Friars Club.
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Diedrich Bader
Karl Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966), better known as Diedrich Bader, is an American actor and comedian. Many know him for his roles as the self-defense instructor Rex from Napoleon Dynamite, Oswald from The Drew Carey Show, Charlie Davies from Outsourced and his voice portrayal of Batman on Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Bader is also well remembered in his voice roles as the android Zeta in the Batman Beyond spinoff, The Zeta Project, Warp Darkmatter in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, the Fiskerton Phantom in The Secret Saturdays, and his recurring role as Hoss Delgado in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy.
Bader was born Karl Diedrich Bader in Alexandria, Virginia, on Christmas Eve, 1966, the son of German-born Gretta Bader, a sculptor, and William B. Bader, a foundation executive who worked in politics. His great-grandfather was German American politician Edward L. Bader, former mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey. When Bader was two years old, his family moved to Paris, France, but he returned to the U.S. to attend Groveton High School. He graduated from T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended college at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Don Muraco
Donald Muraco (born September 10, 1949), better known by his ring names "The Magnificent Muraco" and "The Rock" Don Muraco, is a retired American professional wrestler. Wrestling from the 1970s to the 1990s, Muraco is a former two time WWF Intercontinental Champion, a former two time ECW Heavyweight Champion, one Stampede North American Heavyweight Championship, and was the 1985 King of the Ring, the first-ever in WWF/WWE history.
A former state champion in amateur wrestling in Hawaii in 1967, Muraco chose professional wrestling over football and spent the first year of his career learning the ropes in Vancouver, Portland, Florida and Los Angeles before he got his first break, accepting an offer from Verne Gagne to work in the American Wrestling Association (AWA). A fan favorite at this early stage of his career, Muraco formed a tag team with Jimmy Snuka and squared off many times with the likes of Larry Hennig, Ivan Koloff and Dusty Rhodes. In 1973 Muraco left the AWA for the San Francisco territory, having become tired of life in Minneapolis.
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Don Pardo
Dominick George "Don" Pardo (born February 22, 1918) is an American radio and television announcer. He is best known as the voice of the long-running late night sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Pardo is noted for his long association with NBC, working as the announcer for early incarnations of such notable shows as The Price is Right, Jeopardy!, and NBC Nightly News. He has acted as the announcer of Saturday Night Live for all but one of its seasons. He continues his voiceover duties during the program's opening montage, several years after his official retirement from NBC.
Pardo was born in Westfield, Massachusetts, and spent his childhood in Norwich, Connecticut, and Providence, Rhode Island. He was hired for his first radio position at WJAR-AM in Providence in 1938. Pardo joined NBC as an in-house announcer in 1944, remaining on the network staff for the next 60 years. During World War II, he worked as a war reporter for NBC radio.
In the early 1950s, he served as announcer for many of RCA's and NBC's closed-circuit color television demonstrations, but eventually became one of the top game-show announcers for the network.
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Doug Davidson
Douglas Donald "Doug" Davidson (born October 24, 1954 in Glendale, California) is an American television actor. He has portrayed private investigator Paul Williams on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless since May 1978, making him the series' senior male cast member.
On September 12, 1994, he began hosting a five-night-a-week, syndicated, half hour version of the game show The New Price Is Right, but the show was canceled just four and a half months later on January 27, 1995. Davidson was one of a few people given an audition to replace Bob Barker after his retirement from The Price Is Right in 2007, a role which ultimately went to Drew Carey. Davidson has also hosted the live stage show adaptation, The Price Is Right Live!, at Harrah's-owned casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada.
From 1998 through 2003, Davidson served as a host of the annual Tournament of Roses Parade. Davidson appeared as captain of the The Young and the Restless team when they played for charity on Family Feud in the early 1990s.
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Drew Carey
Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, sports executive, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show, and serving as host of the U.S. version of the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, both of which aired on ABC.
Carey has appeared in several films, television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game. As of 2012, he hosts the television game show The Price Is Right. He is interested in a variety of sports, has worked as a photographer at U.S. National Team soccer games, is a minority owner of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC and a member of the WWE Hall of Fame. Carey has written an autobiography, Dirty Jokes And Beer: Stories Of The Unrefined, detailing his early life and television career.
Carey was the youngest of Lewis and Beulah Carey's three sons and raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. When he was eight years old, his father died from a brain tumor. According to his autobiography, he was born with six toes on his right foot and he played the cornet and trumpet in the marching band of James Ford Rhodes High School, from which he graduated in 1975. Drew is of Scottish heritage from both parents.[citation needed]
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Ed Farhat
Edward George Farhat (June 9, 1924 - January 18, 2003) was an American professional wrestler best known as by his ring name The Sheik (or The Original Sheik to distinguish him from The Iron Sheik, a wrestler from the 1980s). He is also one of the originators of what became the hardcore wrestling style, and the uncle of ECW legend Sabu.
He started out wrestling in the Midwest and later in Texas but his biggest match was one he didn't wrestle in. He was set to face NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz in Chicago for his title but Thesz had a reputation for embarrassing "gimmick" wrestlers so The Sheik bailed from the ring and hid under a bus. The publicity from the event helped push the Sheik character to a more prominent level. He went to New York for Vincent J. McMahon where he teamed with Johnny Valentine and Bull Curry in feuds against Mark Lewin and Don Curtis as well as the team of Antonino Rocca and Miguel Pérez in Madison Square Garden. He returned when McMahon formed the World Wide Wrestling Federation to feud with Bruno Sammartino in the WWF's major markets in the late 1960s.
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Eddie Graham
Edward F. Gossett (January 15, 1930 – January 21, 1985), better known as Eddie Graham, was an American professional wrestler. He was also the promoter and booker for Championship Wrestling from Florida and President of the NWA in the 1970s. His son, Mike Graham, was also a professional wrestler. Eddie Graham was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Gossett started wrestling in 1947 in Texas at the age of 17 after being trained by Cowboy Luttrell. He was sometimes billed as the brother of "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers under the name of Roy Rogers. He lost a loser-leaves-town match to Pepper Gomez in May 1958.
In June 1958, he changed his ring name to Eddie Graham and was billed as the brother of Dr. Jerry Graham and "Crazy" Luke Graham. Jerry and Eddie were a very successful heel tag team on the east coast of the United States. They had popular feuds with teams such as the Fabulous Kangaroos, the Bastien Brothers, Mark Lewin and Don Curtis, and Antonino Rocca and Miguel Pérez. They held the NWA United States Tag Team Championship (Northeast version) together in Capitol Wrestling (the forerunner of World Wrestling Entertainment) four times, winning the belts three times in victories over Miguel Perez and Don Curtis, and once against Red and Lou Bastien.
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Eddie Guerrero
Eduardo Gory "Eddie" Guerrero Llanes (October 9, 1967 – November 13, 2005) was a Mexican-American professional wrestler born into the Guerrero wrestling family. He wrestled in Mexico and Japan for several major professional wrestling promotions. In the United States, Guerrero wrestled in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). Guerrero's gimmick was that of "Latino Heat", a crafty, resourceful wrestler who would do anything to win a match. His catchphrase became "I Lie! I Cheat! I Steal!," which was used in one of his entrance themes. Guerrero partly used this phrase in his autobiography Cheating Death, Stealing Life.
Despite being a villain for most of his career, he got over in and outside the ring being the youngest, yet most popular and successful of the Guerrero brothers. Guerrero was widely regarded as one of the most respected and gifted technical wrestlers in history. Throughout his career, Guerrero encountered various substance abuse problems outside of wrestling, including alcoholism and an addiction to painkillers. His real-life problems were sometimes integrated into his storylines. Notwithstanding these issues, Guerrero won 23 titles during his career, including the WWE Grand Slam Championship.
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Ernie Ladd
Ernest "Ernie" Ladd (November 28, 1938 – March 10, 2007), nicknamed "The Big Cat" was an American collegiate and professional football player and a professional wrestler.
The American Football League's San Diego Chargers selected the Grambling State University standout with their 15th pick in the 1961 draft. At 6'9" and 315 pounds, Ladd was arguably the biggest and strongest man in professional football during his era: 52-inch chest, 39-inch waist, 20-inch biceps, 19-inch neck, 20-inch calf, and size 18D shoes. (According to different sources, the tallest player in NFL history was Morris Stroud (1970 Chiefs) at 6'10", or Richard Sligh (1967 Raiders) at 7'0". The heaviest player in history was Aaron Gibson, at 410 pounds.) Ladd played in three AFL championship games, helping the Chargers win the American Football League title in 1963 with teammate Earl Faison, both members of the original Fearsome Foursome.
Ladd spent the 1966 season playing for the Houston Oilers before moving in 1967 to the Kansas City Chiefs. There, with former Grambling teammate Buck Buchanan, he filled out what was probably the biggest defensive tackle tandem in history. Both Ladd and Buchanan are members of the Grambling State University Athletic Hall of Fame.
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Ernie Roth
Ernie Roth (June 7, 1929 – October 12, 1983), best known as The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, also well known as Abdullah Farouk, was a professional wrestling manager of many infamous heels. Not a wrestler himself due to his small stature, he was noted for his flamboyant outfit of sequined jackets, wraparound sunglasses, and a brightly-colored turban decorated with jewels and feathers.
Ernie Roth got his start in the entertainment business as a disc jockey, and became involved in professional wrestling as a manager in the 1960s in Detroit-based territories. Roth first worked under the names "Mr. Clean" and "J. Wellington Radcliffe", but more famously, he also portrayed "Abdullah Farouk", a man from the Middle East who was sent by The Sheik's wealthy "family" to handle their son's affairs in the US.
Roth on many occasions (when out of character and greasepaint mustache) co-hosted the sydnicated "Big Time Wrestling" with fellow announcer Bob Finnegan until 1969 when the hosting chores went to Lord Athol Layton. For some of the Ohio Markets, Les Edwards would do the ring announcing for non TV shows.
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Frank Wayne
Frank Wayne (born Rocco Francis Rossi, Jr.; July 9, 1917 – March 18, 1988) was an American game show producer and host.
Wayne was the original executive producer of the 1972 revival of The Price Is Right until his death in 1988. He created the show's most popular game, Plinko, and many others. Both of his sons, Philip Wayne Rossi and Mark Wayne, also worked on Price.
Wayne is also credited with creating The Match Game in 1962 and Now You See It in 1974 for Mark Goodson–Bill Todman Productions. He filled in for Bud Collyer on Beat the Clock in Summer 1953 while a writer/stunt creator on the show, then later became the show's producer.
As an independent producer, Wayne created and produced Laugh Line, a game show hosted by Dick Van Dyke.
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Freddie Blassie
Frederick Kenneth Blassie (February 8, 1918 – June 2, 2003), better known as "Classy" Freddie Blassie, was an American professional wrestling villain and manager born in St. Louis, Missouri. Renowned as "The Fashion Plate of Professional Wrestling", He was also a one-time NWA Georgia Heavyweight Champion (later known as the NWA Wildside Heavyweight Championship), and a one-time NWA Florida Heavyweight Champion.
Blassie's parents, Jacob and Anna (née Sind), immigrated to the United States from Germany prior to the start of World War I, settling in St. Louis. Fred was an only child, which he claimed was because he weighed 15 pounds when he was born and his mother didn't want to go through childbirth again. His father was abusive and an alcoholic, and Fred often had to take refuge with his grandparents whenever Jacob would beat his mother. His parents continually separated, then reunited. At the age of 13, after his father hit his mother again, Fred threatened to attack his father with a baseball bat, but didn't do it and stayed with his aunt for six months until his mother asked him to return home. Throughout his life, Fred didn't touch alcohol after seeing what kind of person it turned his father into.
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Fritz Von Erich
Jack Barton Adkisson (August 16, 1929–September 10, 1997) was an American professional wrestler under the ring name Fritz Von Erich, better known today as a wrestling promoter and the patriarch of the Von Erich family. He was also the owner of the World Class Championship Wrestling territory.
Adkisson attended Southern Methodist University, where he threw discus and played football. He played one season for the now defunct Dallas Texans of the NFL (not the AFL team which became the Kansas City Chiefs) and then tried the Canadian Football League (CFL).
While in Edmonton, he met legendary wrestler and trainer Stu Hart, and Hart decided to train and book him in his Klondike Wrestling promotion, naming him Fritz Von Erich and teaming him with "brother" Waldo Von Erich as a pair of pseudo-nazi brothers (nazis still being popular villains in 50s and 60s wrestling). Adkisson's oldest son Jack Barton Adkisson, Jr. was born September 21, 1952. He, however, died in 1959 after an accidental electrocution, and Jack Sr. stopped traveling to the east coast, allowing former partner Waldo to use the Von Erich name in the World Wide Wrestling Federation.
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Gene Okerlund
Eugene "Mean Gene" Okerlund (born November 29, 1942) is a semi-retired American professional wrestling interviewer and announcer. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006 by Hulk Hogan. He is currently signed to lifetime employment with WWE and works for promotional programs mostly for television shows on WWE Classics On Demand and occasionally makes special appearances and also the host of WWE Vintage Collection.
He left the radio industry for a position at the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the early 1970s, where he occasionally filled in for ailing ring announcer and interviewer Marty O'Neill, eventually becoming O'Neill's permanent replacement by the end of the decade.
He would stay with the AWA until the end of 1983, when he was one of many AWA personnel to join the expanding World Wrestling Federation (WWF). He would stay with the WWF for nine years as their top interviewer, and was host of such WWF shows as All-American Wrestling and Tuesday Night Titans.
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George Steele
William James Myers (born April 16, 1937), better known by his ring name George "The Animal" Steele is a former American professional wrestler and actor. Steele's career lasted from 1967 until 1989, though he made occasional wrestling appearances into the 1990s and 2000s.
He also portrayed Swedish wrestler/actor Tor Johnson in Ed Wood, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp.
Myers was raised in Madison Heights, Michigan. During high school, he found success in track running, baseball, basketball and football. In 1956, Myers entered Michigan State University as a football player for the Michigan State Spartans, but his career as a football player was immediately cut short as a result of knee problems.
After gaining a bachelor of science degree from Michigan State University and a master's degree from Central Michigan University, Myers became a teacher, amateur wrestling coach, and football coach at Madison High School in Madison Heights, Michigan. There he would eventually become a member of the Michigan Coaches Hall of Fame.
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George Wagner
George Raymond Wagner (March 24, 1915 – December 26, 1963) was an American professional wrestler best known by his ring name Gorgeous George. In the United States, during the First Golden Age of Professional Wrestling in the 1940s-1950s, Gorgeous George gained mainstream popularity and became one of the biggest stars of this period, gaining media attention for his outrageous character, which was described as flamboyant and charismatic. He was inducted into Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2002 and the WWE Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2010.
George Raymond Wagner was born March 24, 1915 in Butte, Nebraska. For a time, he and his parents lived on a farm near the village of Phoenix in Holt County and probably in Seward County before they moved to Waterloo, Iowa and later Sioux City. When George was age seven, his family moved to Houston, Texas, where he associated with kids from a tough neighborhood. As a child, he trained at the local YMCA and often staged matches against his friends. In 1929, Wagner dropped out of Milby High School at age 14, and worked odd jobs to help support his family. At this time, he competed at carnivals, where he could earn 35 cents for a win. By age 17, he was getting booked by the region’s top promoter, Morris Siegel, and in 1938, he won his first title by defeating Buck Lipscomb for Northwest Middleweight crown. Moreover, on May 19, 1939, he captured the Pacific Coast Light Heavyweight Championship.
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Gerald Brisco
Floyd Gerald "Jerry" Brisco (September 19, 1946) is a former American professional wrestler, and prior to June, 2009, worked as a road agent for WWE on its Raw brand.
In the course of his career, Brisco wrestled for several National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) member promotions and won dozens of championships. In the course of his career, Brisco, along with his partner Pat Patterson, achieved more fame in the late 1990s and early 2000s as the onscreen "stooge" of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon. He is the younger brother of former professional wrestler Jack Brisco who died in early 2010. In March 2010, Brisco returned to the WWE as a talent scout.
Gerald Brisco grew up with five siblings and an absent father in Oklahoma. He followed his brother, Jack Brisco, into amateur wrestling, and was eventually awarded an athletic scholarship to Oklahoma State after winning two AAU tournaments.
During the spring break of 1968, Brisco was in Missouri with Jack, and was asked to substitute for his brother's injured tag team partner despite his lack of professional training. After Brisco contracted hepatitis and injured his knee, he decided to drop out of college and become a full-time professional wrestler.
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Gigi Sabani
Luigi Sabani, best known as Gigi (5 October 1952 – 4 September 2007) was an Italian TV impersonator, host and singer.
Born in Rome, Sabani made his television debut in the late 1970s as an impersonator: his most famous imitations included those of Adriano Celentano and Mike Bongiorno. From 1983 to 1986 he hosted the Italian version of the show The Price Is Right (OK, il Prezzo è Giusto!) along with (and later succeeded by) Italian singer Iva Zanicchi. He participated at Festival di Sanremo in 1989. His best known song was A me mi torna in mente una canzone (1983). In 1997, he was implicated in a giudicial case for fraud in sexual matters and induction to prostitution: he was arrested, but was discharged as the case was filed, and Sabani claimed damages. That was an abrupt halt to a blooming career, that made him from the early 80s one of the most popular artist of the Italian TV. (translated from La Repubblica of 5 September 2007)
On 4 September 2007, just 31 days before he would have turned 55, he died of myocardial infarction while visiting his sister. His fiancée, controversial actress Raffaella Ponzo, found out days later that she was pregnant with his child. She gave birth to his son on 19 May 2008.
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Gordon Solie
Jonard Frank Labiak (January 26, 1929 – July 27, 2000), better known as Gordon Solie, was a Florida-based professional wrestling play-by-play announcer working for World Championship Wrestling. Solie was also the regular announcer for Georgia Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida and Continental Championship Wrestling, among others.
Gordon Solie is possibly the most recognized voice from the days of "classic wrestling" (used here synonymous with the territorial system) and was nicknamed the "Dean" of wrestling announcers, the "Walter Cronkite of wrestling" and the "Howard Cosell of wrestling".
He is best known for his laconic, intelligent commentary, and he tried to impart a seriousness to ring action that many of his coworkers eschewed for the loud, bombastic style more common today. One of his trademarks was his pronunciation of "suplex" as "su-play," a term later used by the AWA's Rod Trongard and wrestler/announcer Terry Taylor and, more recently by Mauro Ranallo, during Pride FC broadcasts. Other famous Solieisms include: "he's not fast, he's sudden", "He'd fight a buzzsaw and give it the first two rounds", "five letters, two words, I Quit", "his face is becoming a Crimson mask", "They're going at it hammer and tongs", and "Pier 6 brawl".
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Gorilla Monsoon
Robert James "Gino" Marella (June 4, 1937 – October 6, 1999), better known by his ring name of Gorilla Monsoon, was an American professional wrestler, play-by-play announcer, and booker. He is famous for his run as one of the great super-heavyweights, and later as the voice of the World Wrestling Federation as announcer and as backstage manager during the 1980s and 1990s, and added on-screen President to his duties in the latter decade. In professional wrestling, the staging area just behind the entrance curtain at an event, a position which Marella established and where he could often be found during WWF shows late in his career, is named the Gorilla Position in his honor.
Marella attended Jefferson High School in Rochester, New York, becoming a standout athlete in football, amateur wrestling, and track and field. At the time, he weighed over 300 pounds (136 kg), and was affectionately called "Tiny" by his teammates.
Marella was also a standout athlete after high school at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. He continued to wrestle, now weighing over 350 pounds, and took second in the 1959 NCAA Wrestling Championships. He also held several school athletic records, including an 18-second wrestling pin, and several track-and-field distinctions. He was inducted into the Ithaca College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1973. During the summers he was at Ithaca College, he was a construction worker in Rochester. One of the buildings he helped construct was the Rochester War Memorial. He was inducted into the Section V Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2010 along with longtime childhood friend Frank Marotta who gave a speech on his behalf.
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Greg Proops
Gregory Everett "Greg" Proops (born October 3, 1959) is an American actor, stand-up comedian and television host. He is widely known for his work as an improvisational comedian on the UK and U.S. versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He also performed on Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and played Max Madigan on the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP.
Proops was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in San Carlos, California, a suburb south of San Francisco, attending San Carlos High School. He attended the College of San Mateo and spearheaded the comedy duo "Proops & Brakeman". Later, he took courses in improvisation and acting at San Francisco State University though he never finished college.
After college, he joined an improv group with Mike McShane. Both Proops and McShane impressed producers Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, who put them on their show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He frequently instigated jokes and running gags concerning various idiosyncrasies and differences between British English and American English (e.g. "lift" vs. "elevator"), and would frequently banter with Clive Anderson on these matters (among others). He lived in London for four years when he was doing the show and lists McShane and Colin Mochrie as among his best friends.
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Greg Valentine
John Wisniski, Jr. (born September 20, 1951) is an American professional wrestler, better known as Greg "The Hammer" Valentine. He is the son of wrestler Johnny Valentine.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Valentine traveled around Texas in his teens with his father. During a summer vacation, he decided to drop out of college and become a wrestler. His father initially tried to deter him, but eventually ceded to his wishes and sent him to Canada in 1970 to train under Stu Hart in Calgary. Wisniski remained in Canada for a year, wrestling his debut match in July 1970 against Angelo "King Kong" Mosca (he lost in around five minutes). Six months later, Wisniski relocated to Detroit to complete his training under The Sheik.
Initially reluctant to take his father's ring name, Wisniski wrestled as Baby Face Nelson before becoming Johnny Fargo, one half of The Fargo Brothers with Don Fargo between 1971 and 1974. The Fargo Brothers initially competed in the Buffalo and Cleveland based National Wrestling Federation before moving on to Texas. They split in 1974 and Wisniski went to Florida, where he began performing as Johnny Valentine, Jr., hopeful that he could live up to his father's legacy. He later changed his ring name to Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, and was billed as Johnny Valentine's brother, not his son, because of fears that the elder Valentine would be thought of as too old to be a legitimate threat. Valentine remained in Florida for a year while also working in Los Angeles and in Japan under Antonio Inoki in 1975 and early 1976.
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Harley Race
Harley Leland Race (born April 11, 1943) is a retired American professional wrestler and is a current promoter and trainer. During his career as a wrestler, he held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship 8 times. He worked for all of the major wrestling promotions, including the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). He was the first NWA United States Heavyweight Champion. Race is one of six men inducted into each of the WWE Hall of Fame, the WCW Hall of Fame, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.
Race was an early fan of professional wrestling, watching programming from the nearby Chicago territory on the DuMont Network. After overcoming polio as a child, he began training as a professional wrestler as a teen under former world champions Stanislaus and Wladek Zbyszko, who operated a farm in his native Missouri. While in high school, an altercation with another classmate led to the principal kneeing Race in the back of the head as he tried to break up the fight. Enraged, Race attacked him, resulting in his expulsion. Already 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) and 225 lb (102 kg), Race decided to get his start in professional wrestling.
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Howard Finkel
Howard Finkel (born June 7, 1950) is a professional wrestling ring announcer working with WWE in a variety of roles. Hired in 1975 by Vincent J. McMahon's World Wide Wrestling Federation, "The Fink" was the first person brought in to Vincent K. McMahon's nascent World Wrestling Federation and is widely credited as WWE's first and longest lasting employee.
Finkel, a native of Newark, New Jersey, began announcing wrestling shows at Madison Square Garden in 1977. By 1979, he was hired as the first employee of WWE (formerly WWF), and he was made lead ring announcer for the WWF's biggest events. Across three decades, Finkel's distinctive voice was one of the trademarks of WWF programming, and was sometimes used in the packaged intros for the company's weekly programming. Finkel's signature call was his announcement of a new champion following a change in titles, in which he would place increased emphasis while stretching out the word "New" in order to draw the greatest reaction from the crowd. Finkel also suggested the well-known pay-per-view name "WrestleMania," (he got it from The Beatles' theme in the 1960s BeatleMania) which owner Vince McMahon immediately accepted. Finkel also came up with Ricky Steamboat's "Dragon" nickname.
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Hulk Hogan
Terry Gene Bollea (born August 11, 1953), better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American professional wrestler, actor, television personality, and musician signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA).
Hogan enjoyed mainstream popularity in the mid 1980s through the early 1990s as the all-American character Hulk Hogan in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF—now WWE), and was notable in the mid-to-late 1990s as Hollywood Hogan, the villainous nWo leader, in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Following the closure of WCW, he made a brief return to WWE in the early 2000s before revising his heroic character by combining elements of his two most famous personas.
Hogan was later inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005. He is a 12-time world champion being a six-time WWF/WWE Champion, six-time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, as well as a former WWE World Tag Team Champion with Edge. He won the Royal Rumble in 1990 and 1991, making him the first to win two consecutive Royal Rumbles. He was also the first WWE wrestler to win the WWE Championship three times. In his first reign as WCW World Heavyweight Champion, Hogan held the title for 469 days from July 17, 1994 to October 29, 1995—the longest ever reign for this championship.
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Ian Gomez
Ian Gomez (born December 27, 1964) is an American actor best known for his comedic TV work, the most notable of which are his series-regular stints as Javier on Felicity and Andy on Cougar Town.
On The Drew Carey Show he played Larry Almada, a co-worker of Drew's at Winfred-Louder. He has also worked with Drew Carey on the show Whose Line is it Anyway?. On Curb Your Enthusiasm he played the "bald chef," who Larry hired to cook in the restaurant he owned with Jeff Greene, Ted Danson, Michael York, and Hugh Mellon. From 1998-2002, he played Javier Clemente Quintata on the hit WB show Felicity. In April 2006 Gomez appeared on Reba as a therapist in an episode called "Here We Go Again". He was recently in ABC's Jake in Progress, starring John Stamos, and appeared in the fourth episode of Lost's third season, "Every Man for Himself". He is currently co-starring in ABC's comedy Cougar Town alongside Courteney Cox, and fellow Drew Carey Show castmate Christa Miller.
He was born in New York City, New York to an artist father and a dancer mother. He is married to actress-writer Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame; the two can be seen together in the film Connie and Carla. Gomez is of Puerto Rican and Russian Jewish descent, and converted to the Greek Orthodox Church religion upon marrying Vardalos, which is mirrored as a plot element in Wedding. In 2008, the two adopted a little girl.
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Ian Turpie
Ian Bruce "Turps" Turpie (6 November 1943 – 11 March 2012) was an Australian television personality, best known for hosting the long-running game show The Price Is Right.
Turpie was born in Melbourne on 6 November 1943, Turpie began his entertainment career at the age of 10, when he was accepted at the Hector Crawford Drama School and gained recognition as a juvenile actor working in radio and theatre. He starred in a number of radio programmes alongside Sir Robert Helpmann and June Bronhill, and featured in the radio series D24.
During his teens, he discovered a passion for music and focused on playing guitar, songwriting and singing. By the age of 16, Turpie was a seasoned radio and stage performer, touring Australia in such hits as Peter Pan, Auntie Mame and Bye Bye Birdie, and appearing in several National Theatre productions including Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Television soon beckoned; in 1964, Turpie played a student shot dead in a mock bank robbery in the opening scene to the debut episode of the iconic Crawford police series Homicide, having earlier appeared in a featured guest role in an episode of the courtroom drama Consider Your Verdict.
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Iron Sheik
Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri (Persian:حسین خسرو علی وزیری) (born March 15, 1943) is a semi-retired Iranian professional wrestler and actor better known by his ring name The Iron Sheik. He is known for ending the near six-year World Wrestling Federation Championship reign of Bob Backlund, and for being the man Hulk Hogan defeated for his first WWF Championship.
A heel throughout the 1980s, he later gained popularity on Opie and Anthony, Kidd Chris, The Howard Stern Show, and on the internet due to his shoot interviews and outbursts on the wrestling industry and the hatred he expressed for various wrestlers.
Khosrow was born in Tehran, Iran. He made a name for himself as an amateur wrestler, and also worked as a bodyguard for Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his family for several years.
Khosrow competed to become part of the Iranian Olympic Greco Roman team for the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico.
After this, he moved to the United States and became the assistant coach of two US Olympic squads in the 1970s. In 1971, he was the Amateur Athletic Union Greco-Roman wrestling champion at 183.5 pounds. He was assistant coach to the USA team for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
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Iva Zanicchi
Iva Zanicchi (born in Ligonchio, Reggio Emilia on January 18, 1940) is an Italian pop singer.
Iva Zanicchi's career began in 1962 at the Castrocaro Festival of New Voices, where she earned third place. She won the Sanremo song festival in 1967 with Non pensare a me, in 1969 with Zingara and again in 1974 with Ciao cara, come stai?. In 1969, she represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest in Madrid with Due Grosse Lacrime Bianche, where she finished 13th. A concert at the Paris Olympia and a tour (United States, Canada, South America and the Soviet Union) followed. Iva later also toured Australia and Japan.
From 1987 to 2000 Iva hosted the very popular game show Ok, il prezzo è giusto!, the Italian version of The Price is Right as the only female host in the history of the game show worldwide.
In 2004 she was one of Forza Italia's candidates at the European Parliament elections, polling nearly 35,000 but not enough to be elected. However, as the highest-polling among the candidates failing to be elected, Iva took up her seat in Strasburg in May 2008, representing Forza Italia, when EuroMP Mario Mantovani left to become a PdL senator. She was confirmed in her post at the European elections of June 2009.
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Ivan Putski
Józef Bednarski (born January 21, 1941), is a Polish former professional wrestler and bodybuilder. He is known by the ring name Ivan Putski and was given the nicknames "The Polish Hammer" and "Polish Power".
Putski is a former WWF World Tag Team Champion with Tito Santana. Ivan was known to have an ongoing feud with another professional at the time, "Superstar" Billy Graham over the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, who also had an incredible physique and strength, which led to many pose-downs, arm wrestling bouts, and long, physical matches between the two. Other rivals included Iron Sheik, Ivan Koloff, and Jesse "The Body" Ventura, who when commentating for the WWF would refer to Putski as "Puduski" in much the same way he would later refer to Tito Santana as "Chico".
Putski was born in Poland and migrated to the United States at a young age. He and his family arrived in Texas, where Putski began his professional wrestling career. Ivan stood 5'6" and weighed around 225 pounds. In his earlier days he was weighed in at the 250 pound mark.
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Jack Black
Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American comedian, actor and musician. He makes up one half of the comedy and satirical rock duo Tenacious D. The group has three albums as well as a television series and a film. His acting career is extensive, starring primarily as bumbling, cocky, but internally self-conscious outsiders in comedy films. He was a member of the Frat Pack, a group of comedians who have appeared together in several Hollywood films, and has been nominated for a Golden Globe award. He has also won an MTV Movie Award, and a Nickelodeon Kids Choice Award as well as hosting the 2006, 2008, and 2011 Kids Choice Awards.
Black was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of two satellite engineers, Judith (née Cohen), who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope, and Thomas William Black. His mother is Jewish and his father converted to Judaism (Black attended Hebrew school). On The Tonight Show, he said his surname may have come from the occupational name Blacksmith. Black's parents divorced when he was 10; Black moved to Culver City with his father and frequently visited his mother’s home. As a child, Black appeared in a commercial for the Activision game Pitfall! in 1982, which was later shown during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live and again on The Tonight Show with Conan O' Brien. When Black entered high school, his parents enrolled him at the Poseidon School, a private secondary school engineered specifically for students struggling in the traditional school system. Black also attended the Crossroads School, where he excelled in drama. He later attended UCLA but dropped out during his sophomore year to pursue a career in entertainment, at which point his father discontinued his financial support.[citation needed] Fellow UCLA alumnus Tim Robbins later cast Black in Bob Roberts. He also had recurring roles on the HBO sketch comedy series Mr. Show.
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Jack Brisco
Freddie Joe "Jack" Brisco (September 21, 1941 – February 1, 2010) was an American professional wrestler. He performed for various territories of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), becoming a two-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and multi-time NWA Tag Team Champion with his brother Gerald Brisco. Brisco was considered one of the top wrestlers of his era; in 2005, Don Leo Jonathan called him "probably the greatest champion of the 20th century."
In the late 1970s, the Brisco brothers also discovered Terry Bollea, the future wrestling legend best known as Hulk Hogan, who they introduced to Hiro Matsuda for training.
Brisco grew up in Blackwell, Oklahoma with five siblings. He grew up as a fan of professional wrestling, and particularly a fan of NWA World Champion Lou Thesz He was followed by his younger brother, Gerald Brisco, into sport wrestling and turned down a football scholarship at University of Oklahoma to go to Oklahoma State. He was the first Native American to win an NCAA Wrestling National Championship in 1965. His winning the NCAA title was even more profound in that Brisco won it during his junior year, and didn't get taken down once during the entire season.
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Jack Lanza
John "Jack" Lanza (born October 14, 1935) is a retired professional wrestler. He was one half of The Blackjacks with Blackjack Mulligan in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) and World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). He is currently a producer in WWE. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2006.
Lanza started his career in 1962. In the American Wrestling Association (AWA), he teamed with Bobby Duncum and was managed by Bobby Heenan. During his time in the company, his gimmick was that of a Western cowboy. The duo won the AWA World Tag Team Championship on July 23, 1976.
In the 1970s, Lanza and Mulligan teamed up to form The Blackjacks. Lanza was a main-eventer when the duo began teaming together. They were managed by Bobby Heenan.
In 1975, they joined the WWWF. On August 26, 1975, The Blackjacks defeated Dominic DeNucci and Pat Barrett for the WWWF World Tag Team Championship. The match was a two-out-of-three falls match, and the Blackjacks won the match by winning the first and third falls. As part of his tenure in WWWF, Vince McMahon promised Lanza that he would receive one World singles title shot a month.
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James Dudley
James Dudley (May 12, 1910 – June 1, 2004) was an American baseball player, professional wrestling manager, and professional wrestling executive. He played Negro league baseball for nine years but is best known for his time with World Wide Wrestling Federation. Dudley was the first African-American to run a major United States arena (Turner's Arena in Washington, D.C.). He worked with four generations of wrestling's McMahon family and was particularly close with Vincent J. McMahon. At age 74, he was put back on the company's payroll to show appreciation for his work for the McMahons. He also managed several wrestlers in the WWWF and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1994.
Dudley was considered an "excellent athlete" and ran the 100 yard dash in under ten seconds on multiple occasions. Although he showed up for the trials for the 1924 United States Olympic team, he was not allowed to participate because African Americans were not permitted on the team. After playing semi-professional baseball in Baltimore, Maryland, Dudley signed with the Baltimore Elite Giants at age 27. Nicknamed "Big Train", he played catcher but started out helping pitchers warm up in the bullpen. Playing alongside two other talented catchers, Roy Campanella and Eggie Clarke, Dudley's playing time was limited. He remained with the Elite Giants until leaving professional baseball in 1945. In total, he played about 60 games in the Negro leagues.
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Jamie Kennedy
James Harvey "Jamie" Kennedy (born May 25, 1970) is an American comedian, rapper, and actor.
Kennedy, the youngest of six children, was born in Upper Darby Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His family is of Irish descent and he was raised Roman Catholic. He attended and graduated from Monsignor Bonner High School in 1988. After high school, Kennedy began his career as a Hollywood extra and honed his skills at voice impersonations.
Kennedy used his voice acting skills to create a false persona, screen agent "Marty Power". Posing as Marty Power over the telephone, he attracted the attention of real agents and managers who would later book his performances. He came to prominence in the late 1990s for playing Randy Meeks in the Scream film. He has also performed minor roles in other Hollywood films in recent years, and most often appears opposite actor Kal Penn including Malibu's Most Wanted, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, and Son of the Mask. His lead role as Tim Avery in Son of the Mask earned him a Golden Raspberry Award nomination for Worst Actor.
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Jay Wolpert
Jay Wolpert is an American television producer and screenwriter.
His first television appearance came as a contestant on the original version of Jeopardy! in 1969. He competed in the Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions that year and won.
Wolpert began his game show producing career working for Dan Enright in Canada. He later worked as a producer and creator of game shows for Chuck Barris Productions and Goodson-Todman Productions. While at Goodson-Todman, he served as producer of The Price is Right from 1972 until 1978 and also created the game show Double Dare for CBS.
Wolpert left Goodson-Todman to form his own production company, and his first game show was the 1979 series Whew! for CBS. Wolpert produced the series with Burt Sugarman for most of its run. Whew! was canceled in 1980 and Wolpert did not return to television with a series until January 1983, despite shooting several pilots in the interim. On January 3, 1983, Wolpert's Hit Man debuted on NBC with Peter Tomarken as its host. Hit Man lasted thirteen weeks on the air.
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Jerry Lawler
Jerry O'Neil Lawler (born November 29, 1949) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler, wrestling commentator, musician, businessman, commercial artist and film actor, known throughout the wrestling world as Jerry "The King" Lawler. He is currently signed to WWE, working on its Raw brand as the color commentator and occasional wrestler. He also wrestles and occasionally commentates for the Memphis Wrestling promotion.
Lawler has held 168 championships throughout his career. Overall, Lawler has held more championships than any other current WWE performer, though he has never won any WWE championships since joining the company.
While working in Memphis, Tennessee as a disc jockey, Lawler's artistic ability attracted the attention of local wrestling promoter Aubrey Griffith. The two made an agreement in which Lawler would give Griffith free publicity in exchange for free wrestling training. Lawler debuted as a wrestler in 1970 and won his first championship in September 1971 by winning a battle royal. He soon won the NWA Southern Tag Team Championship under the managerial service of Sam Bass with partner Jim White. In 1974, Lawler began feuding with Jackie Fargo, who had been his trainer and mentor. This led to a match for the NWA Southern Heavyweight Championship. On July 24, 1974, Lawler was booked to win the belt and the title of "King of Wrestling." While Lawler began his career as a heel, he became a face after splitting from Bass at the end of 1974. On November 12, 1979, while working in the Continental Wrestling Association (CWA), Lawler defeated Billy Graham to become the CWA World Champion. In 1980, his career was put on hold due to a broken leg, but he returned to the ring after several months.
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Jesse Ventura
James George Janos (born July 15, 1951), better known as Jesse Ventura, is an American statesman, actor, author, and former professional wrestler who served as the 38th Governor of Minnesota from 1999 to 2003.
Ventura served as a Navy UDT during the Vietnam War. He later embarked on an 11-year professional wrestling career from 1975 to 1986, taking up the stage name Jesse "The Body" Ventura. He had a long tenure in the World Wrestling Federation as a performer and color commentator, and was inducted into the company's Hall of Fame in 2004. After leaving wrestling, Ventura began a successful film career, appearing in films such as 1987's Predator.
Ventura first entered politics as Mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota from 1991 to 1995. He ran as the Reform Party candidate in the Minnesota gubernatorial election of 1998, running a campaign centered on grassroots events and unusual ads that implored citizens not to "vote for politics as usual". The campaign was successful, and Ventura served from January 4, 1999, to January 6, 2003, without running for a second term.
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Jim Duggan
James Edward Duggan (born January 14, 1954), better known by his ring name "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, is an American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment in the 1980s, when it was known as World Wrestling Federation (WWF), and World Championship Wrestling (WCW). His best known character is that of an American patriot, which sees him use a 2x4 length of wood as a weapon, the battle cry "Hooo!" and the U-S-A! cheer.
Duggan is a survivor of kidney cancer, an illness he was diagnosed with during his time with WCW. Duggan has claimed to have wrestled in all 50 States in America as well as in the countries/territories of Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guam, the Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Scotland, England and Wales (In The United Kingdom.)
In the WWF, Duggan was the winner of the first-ever Royal Rumble match in 1988 and in WCW, he was a one time United States Heavyweight Champion and a one time (and the final) World Television Champion.
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Jim Ross
James William "Jim" Ross (born January 3, 1952) is a professional wrestling commentator, referee, restaurateur, occasional wrestler, and former company executive of WWE, where he currently works as a talent relations consultant and on WWE NXT as a Play-by-Play announcer. Ross was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2007 and is widely regarded as one of the greatest commentators in wrestling history. He is known affectionately by wrestling fans as Good Ol' JR. In recent years, he has developed his own brand of barbecue sauces and cookbooks.
While attending Westville High School, Ross was the first baseman on the Westville baseball team. Ross was a two-time all-conference football player for the Westville Yellowjackets in 1968–69. His maternal grandparents owned a general store in Westville, Oklahoma and his paternal grandfather Dee Ross owned an off-sale beer store and was a carpenter. Ross was also President of the Student Body, a 4 year letterman in basketball, and State Vice President of the Future Farmers of America where he was State Speech Champion in 1968. Ross was also named Honorable Mention on the 1969 High School All State Football team by the Tulsa World as a center.
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Jimmy Hart
James "Jimmy" Ray Hart (born January 1, 1944) is a professional wrestling manager, executive, composer, and musician currently signed with WWE. He is best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling under his nickname "The Mouth of the South." He has managed many professional wrestlers, including Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Jim Neidhart, Jerry "The King" Lawler, Ted DiBiase, and The Honky Tonk Man. He is a one-time AWA Southern Heavyweight Champion.
Before becoming involved with professional wrestling, Hart was a member of rock band The Gentrys, best known for their 1965 top five Billboard Hot 100 hit, "Keep on Dancing".
Jimmy Hart was brought into wrestling by Jerry "The King" Lawler, with whom he had attended Memphis Treadwell High School. Having been asked to sing back-up with Lawler, Hart later became Lawler's manager.
After splitting from Lawler, Hart created a stable known as Hart's First Family of Wrestling to attack Lawler, which among others included King Kong Bundy, "Ravishing" Rick Rude, Lanny Poffo, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, Ox Baker, Kamala, Randy Savage, "Hot Stuff" Eddie Gilbert, The Iron Sheik and Kevin Sullivan.
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Jimmy Snuka
James William "Jimmy" Reiher (born May 18, 1943) is a semi-retired Fijian professional wrestler and actor, better known by his ring name Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka. Originally from the Fiji Islands, Snuka wrestled for several promotions in the 1970s and 1980s. Snuka was the first ECW Heavyweight Champion and held the title on two occasions. He is best known for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the early to mid-1980s and is credited with introducing the high-flyer style of wrestling to the WWF. His children Jimmy Reiher, Jr. and Sarona Reiher are also wrestlers.
Reiher was active in amateur bodybuilding in Hawaii in the 1960s. He also enjoyed some success as a professional bodybuilder, earning the titles of Mr. Hawaii, Mr. Waikiki and Mr. North Shore. Reiher opted to go into the more lucrative career of professional wrestling due to his uncertainty of making a living in bodybuilding. While working at Dean Ho's gym in Hawaii, Snuka met many of the wrestlers who worked in the South Pacific region and decided to try the sport. Snuka made his debut as Jimmy Kealoha fighting Maxwell "Bunny" Butler in Hawaii in 1970. He later moved to the mainland and wrestled for Don Owen’s NWA Pacific Northwest territory where he held the belt as Heavyweight Champion six times. He first won the title by pinning Bull Ramos on November 16, 1973. It was in this territory, that Reiher transformed himself into Jimmy Snuka. Snuka also held the NWA Pacific Northwest Tag Team Championship six times with partner Dutch Savage. Snuka also had a two year feud with another rookie, Jesse "The Body" Ventura.
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Jimmy Valiant
James Harold Fanning (born August 6, 1942) is a former professional wrestler and author better known as Jimmy Valiant.
Jimmy Valiant was born in Franklin County, Tennessee, near Tullahoma as the youngest of five children of James and Effie Fanning. He later incorporated the names of his four sisters - Louise, Christine, Charlena and Patrica - into the spider web tattoo on his upper arm.
He later moved to Willingboro, New Jersey. He married Clara, with whom he fathered three children: Robin, Rhonda, and Dana. With Felicia, he has his youngest son Handsome. He is now married to Angel. He has 6 grandchildren: Lonna, Jenae, Beau, Chassie, Clarissa, and Delilah.
He started wrestling in 1964 as Big Jim Vallen. He went to the World Wide Wrestling Federation in the 1970s as Handsome Jimmy Valiant and formed a team with Johnny Valiant that would dominate the tag team scene for a while as WWWF Tag Team champions.
During the late 1970s - early 1980s, Valiant was a central player in the Memphis, Tennessee wrestling scene. He feuded regularly with Jerry Lawler and teamed with Bill Dundee to dominate the tag team matches of that time. He even recorded a song, "The Ballad of Handsome Jimmy" that began, "I've been rolling into Mempho ... TWA ... [T]ell all the women Handsome Jimmy's on the way..." The song was used in wrestling arenas as his entry music, and it became a mainstay on some Memphis radio stations for a few years. Despite the Memphis promotion desperately wanting to keep him in Memphis full-time, even offering to buy him a house in Memphis according to Jerry Lawler's biography, Valiant decided to move on after holding the AWA Southern Heavyweight title for roughly a year. Valiant also spent a brief amount of time in Jim Crockett Promotions in the late 1970s as the heel King James Valiant managed by Lord Alfred Hayes.
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Joe Pasquale
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!. He also hosted the revived version of the game show The Price is Right.
Pasquale worked for the Civil Service's Department of Transport before joining Smithfields meat market. The hours at the meat market became too much for a young Pasquale, so he left to work at a building site and at the Ford factory in Dagenham.
For a few years, Pasquale worked as an entertainer at holiday camps across the UK and became entertainment manager at Warner Holidays Corton in Suffolk. Later, he became entertainment manager at Torquay. His big break arrived when he entered and came second in the New Faces competition in 1987.
Pasquale's live shows include Live And Squeaky (1996), Twin Squeaks (1997), The Crazy World Of Joe Pasquale (1998), Bubble And Squeak (2000), The Everything I Have Ever Done & The First Of Many Goodbye Tours (2004), Does He Really Talk Like That? The Live Show (2005) and Return Of The Love Monkey (2006).
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Joe Roth
Joe Roth (born July 13, 1948) is an American film executive, producer and film director. He co-founded Morgan Creek Productions in 1987 and was chairman of 20th Century Fox (1989–1993), Caravan Pictures (1993–1994), and Walt Disney Studios (1994–2000) before founding Revolution Studios in 2000.
Roth was born in New York, New York, the son of Lawrence Roth, a foreman at a plastics plant. In 1959, Roth's father volunteered his son to be a plaintiff in the ACLU's effort to abolish mandatory prayer in public schools. The case, filed in New York, wound its way through the system, finally reaching the U.S. Supreme Court in 1962. The Court ruled that such prayer was unconstitutional under the First Amendment, in the landmark case of Engel v. Vitale.
Over the course of his career, he has produced over 40 films, and has directed six to date, including 1990's Coupe de Ville (in which a Cadillac Coupe de Ville plays a big part) and 2001's America's Sweethearts.
Roth, who was ranked 6th in Premiere Magazine's 2003 Hollywood Power List, produced the 76th annual Academy Awards. Roth announced that in October 2007, when Revolution's distribution deal with Sony Pictures ends, Revolution Studios will close and he will join Sony as a producer.
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John Caponera
John Caponera is a comedian and actor. He starred in the 1994 TV series The Good Life with Drew Carey as Caponera's co-star. (Carey recalls Caponera as "one of the nicest, funniest, and hardest-working guys I've ever known".) Caponera's Harry Caray impersonation is one of his trademark bits. His material receives frequent airplay on XM Radio comedy channels.
Caponera played the part of Dave in the Bryan Spicer film For Richer or Poorer starring Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley as well as dozens of other acting parts.
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John Carroll Lynch
John Carroll Lynch (born August 1, 1963) is an American actor, known for his role as Drew Carey's cross-dressing brother on The Drew Carey Show, and for his role as Norm, the unassuming husband of Margie Gunderson (Frances McDormand) in Fargo. Lynch plays homicide Detective Bud Morris in the medical drama television series Body of Proof, which premiered on ABC in March 2011.
In the fall of 2003, he starred in the CBS show The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire, with Randy Quaid, Chris Penn, Mare Winningham, Elizabeth McGovern, and Ann Cusack. The show was cancelled after only a few episodes. He also had a recurring role in the HBO show Carnivàle, playing escaped convict Varlyn Stroud. Lynch appeared as a district attorney in the CBS series Close to Home and as NASA official Bob Gilruth in the HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon. Lynch appeared in the 2003 thriller Gothika and the 2007 biopic Zodiac.
John Carroll Lynch was born August 1, 1963 in Boulder, Colorado. He was raised in Denver.
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John Sessions
John Gibb Marshall (born 11 January 1953), better known by the stage name John Sessions, is a Scottish actor and comedian. He is known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?; as a panellist on QI; and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and in Hollywood.
Sessions was born in Largs, and spent some of his earliest years in Kempston, Bedfordshire and St Albans, Hertfordshire. He has an elder brother and a twin sister. Sessions is openly gay. His name change occurred when he became a performer, owing to the presence of a John Marshall on the Equity register already. He graduated with an M.A. in English literature from Bangor University, where he had begun to appear to audiences with his comedy in shows such as "Look back in Bangor" and "Marshall Arts". He later studied for a PhD from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, although he did not complete the doctorate.
This period in his life was unhappy. In a 'Worst of Times' column for The Independent from around 1990, he talked of how the freezing Canadian weather had depressed him, he was smoking 'far too many cigarettes', 'had a couple of disastrous flings' and described his PhD dissertation as '200 pages of rubbish'.
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Johnny Gilbert
John L. "Johnny" Gilbert III (born July 13, 1924) is an American show business personality who has worked mainly on television game shows. Originally a nightclub singer and entertainer, he has hosted and announced a number of game shows from various eras, dating as far back as the 1950s. He has become known primarily for his work as the announcer and audience host for the syndicated version of the quiz show Jeopardy! since its debut in 1984.
Gilbert was born in Newport News, Virginia. While he was still in high school, he began his career as the regular vocalist for a dance band that toured the Virginia area. Upon graduation, he became the master of ceremonies for the Sky Way club in Jacksonville, Florida. From there, he went on to perform full-time at various nightclubs throughout the United States. Gilbert also joined the United States Army's Seventh Army Special Services, where he was cast as the lead in the military musical comedy Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical. Upon returning to the United States, he continued to sing and entertain at nightclubs, until he received his first television assignment as a singer and emcee on WDSU in New Orleans.
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Johnny Olson
John Leonard "Johnny" Olson (May 22, 1910 – October 12, 1985) was an American radio personality and television announcer. His work spanned 32 game shows produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman from the late 1950s through the mid 1980s. He was also the announcer of The Jackie Gleason Show from 1962 to 1970.
Born in Windom, Minnesota, while landing jobs at WIBA and KGDA in and nearby Madison, Wisconsin after 1928, Olson enrolled in pharmacy classes at the University of Minnesota. He also worked a string of odd jobs, from soda jerk to singer.
Olson's first network job on radio was in New York City in 1944, announcing the musical game show, Ladies Be Seated, a stunt game along the lines of Truth or Consequences broadcast on the NBC Blue radio network. He previously hosted several radio shows in Chicago, including Johnny Olson's Rumpus Room, a late-night variety radio show broadcast from 10:30 pm to 12 midnight, which was also the name of a later daytime talk show he hosted on the DuMont Television Network.
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Johnny Rodz
Johnny Rodriguez (born May 16, 1938) is a retired American professional wrestler. He has previously worked as a professional wrestler under the ring name Johnny Rodz.
He was part of the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) from its early years, appearing on WWWF cards as far back as 1965. He wrestled Bob Backlund in Madison Square Garden while working for the WWWF at the time. He was dubbed "the fire brand from the Bronx" by TV announcer Ray Morgan. For much of the next two decades through mid-1985, Rodz was a mainstay of the federation, though largely used as a jobber. In 1980's Showdown at Shea, he was defeated by Ivan Putski.
For a time, he also worked with Mike and Gene LeBell's NWA Hollywood Wrestling in the '70s. He won a greater share of matches wrestling as 'Arabian Wildman' Java Ruuk and even won the promotion's battle royal in 1976.
In 1996, Rodz was inducted into the WWF Hall of Fame by Arnold Skaaland.
On the March 1, 2007 episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Impact showed The Latin American Xchange (LAX) attacking Rodz as part of their feud with Team 3D. Ten days later at Destination X, he accompanied Team 3D to the ring for their Ghettobrawl match with LAX at a Destination X pay-per-view.
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Josie Lawrence
Josie Lawrence (born Wendy Lawrence; 6 June 1959) is a British comedienne and actress best known for her work with the Comedy Store Players improvisational troupe, the television series Whose Line Is It Anyway? and more recently her role as Manda Best in EastEnders.
Josie Lawrence was born Wendy Lawrence in Old Hill, Rowley Regis (later Warley and now Sandwell). She has a brother, John, and sister, Janet, 10 years older who are twins. They were brought up in nearby Cradley Heath, where her father worked for British Leyland and her mother as a dinner lady. She says everyone in her family has a wicked, dry sense of humour. She knew she wanted to be an actress at the early age of 5 and by the time she was 16 she joined the Barlow Players in Oldbury.
She studied at Dartington College of Arts from 1978 to 1981, receiving a bachelor of arts honours degree.
Her first acting role was as a young boy in a production of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists at the Half Moon Theatre. During the 1980s, she was also involved in a play called Passionaria at the Newcastle Playhouse, starring Denise Black and Kate McKenzie, and they later formed the jazz group Denise Black and the Kray Sisters.
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Junkyard Dog
Sylvester Ritter (December 13, 1952 – June 2, 1998) was an American professional wrestler and professional football player, best known for his work in Mid-South Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation as The Junkyard Dog (or JYD for short). Entering the ring with his trademark chain attached to a dog collar, to the music of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust," JYD regularly headlined cards that sold out the Louisiana Superdome and other major venues. JYD was one of the most electrifying and charismatic wrestlers in the country, particularly during his peak in the early 1980s. JYD was most known for his head butt and upper-body strength, the latter of which saw him regularly body slam such large wrestlers as the One Man Gang, Kamala, and King Kong Bundy. The word "thump," which referred to JYD's power slam, was prominently displayed on his wrestling trunks.
Ritter played football at Fayetteville State University, twice earning honorable mention All-American status, and is a member of The Sports Hall Of Fame. He graduated with a political science degree and was selected by the Green Bay Packers organization, but knee and back surgery ended his football career. Also a member of Groove Phi Groove and All CIAA member Chet Grimsley who authored a book on their travels The White Golden Bull.
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Kathy Greenwood
Kathryn "Kathy" Greenwood (born March 21, 1962) is a Canadian actress and comedienne. She appeared on the American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway? numerous times, and played Grace Bailey on the Canadian television drama series Wind at My Back.
Kathy Greenwood was born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, and it was clear from an early age she wanted to be a performer; by the time she was in high school at Agincourt Collegiate Institute, she was usually the star of the school plays and concerts. When it came time to graduate in 1980, she feared that she would never get to act again, until a concerned friend gave her a brochure for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where Greenwood spent the next two years studying acting.
In 1987, when she returned to Canada in Toronto, she managed to find work for a small night club act called A Wedge of Night, which led to her five year stint with the Toronto branch of the famous Second City comedy troupe; where she served as both a writer and a performer - two of her shows won Dora Mavor Moore awards in 1988, and 1992. Shortly afterwards, she and her friends Jonathan Wilson, and Ed Sahely developed what she called their "Second City" spin-off, Not to Be Repeated, in which the three would improvise an entire situation comedy in front of a live audience, based solely on ideas and suggestions that are thrown at them from the audience. Other notable appearances in Canada include the popular sketch shows This Hour Has 22 Minutes and Royal Canadian Air Farce.
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Kathy Kinney
Kathy Kinney (born November 3, 1954) is an American actress and comedian. She gained considerable popularity in the late 1990s for playing Mimi Bobeck, the outrageously made-up, flamboyantly vulgar, and vindictive nemesis of Drew Carey on the sitcom The Drew Carey Show. She had been involved with television, feature films, and stage work for years.
Kinney was born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, the daughter of Marian and Harold Kinney, an automobile dealer, and grew up in an Irish American family. She attended the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point, and in 1976 moved to New York City, where she found work as a secretary at WCBS-TV. Her boss enjoyed hunting, and sometimes she chatted with him about his hunting trips, occasionally quipping, "So, did you kill anything this week?" She used this experience to inspire herself for the role of Mimi. During this time at WCBS she also worked nights at New York comedy clubs to improve her improvisational comedy skills. This eventually led to a job teaching improv classes. One such class had in its attendance Bill Sherwood, a director. He later wrote a part for her in his 1986 film, Parting Glances.
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Kerry Von Erich
Kerry Gene Adkisson (February 3, 1960 – February 18, 1993) was an American professional wrestler under the ring names Kerry Von Erich, The Modern Day Warrior, and The Texas Tornado and was part of the Von Erich family of professional wrestlers. He is best known for his time with his father's promotion World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), where he spent eleven years of his career, and his time in World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Adkisson held forty championships in various promotions during his career. Among other accolades, he was a five-time world champion: a four-time WCWA World Heavyweight Champion and one-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and a one-time WWF Intercontinental Champion.
Kerry was the son of wrestler Fritz Von Erich. His brothers, David, Kevin, Mike, and Chris, were also wrestlers. Kerry was also a standout in high school track and field and possessed a record-breaking discus throw. He debuted in his father's promotion, NWA Texas/Big Time Wrestling on June 17, 1979 against Gary Hart. In Big Time Wrestling, he held many Texas Tag Team and American Tag Team titles.
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Kevin Von Erich
Kevin Ross Adkisson (born May 15, 1957) is a retired professional wrestler under the ring name Kevin Von Erich of the Von Erich Family. He is the last surviving son of wrestler Fritz Von Erich and had four brothers that wrestled, David, Kerry, Mike and Chris, as well as an older brother, Jack, Jr., who died in 1959.
Kevin Adkisson played football at North Texas State University as a fullback, second string to Garry Smith, until an injury ended his football career and dream of playing in the National Football League.
Kevin started wrestling as Kevin Von Erich in 1976. He spent most of his career wrestling for his father's promotion, World Class Championship Wrestling. Kevin's natural athletic ability and good looks made him one of the promotion's biggest stars. He achieved great success in the company both as a singles and tag team wrestler, often participating in many of the company's high profile feuds. Kevin was also known for wrestling barefoot, highly unusual in a sport where almost all wrestlers wear high-topped boots. World Class announcers often jokingly referred to him as "The Barefoot Boy" on WCCW broadcasts. Kevin later admitted in an interview that he never set out to wrestle barefoot, but that before one of his matches someone hid his boots as a rib, and he wasn't able to find them before his match, so just went out barefoot to wrestle, and it later became his trademark. Contrary to popular belief, He wore boots in matches in his early career, including his debut match against Paul Perschmann aka Playboy Buddy Rose and in a match against Superfly Jimmy Snuka. Kevin was a big fan of Snuka's, who also wrestled barefoot, and Kevin often performed a moved similar to Snuka's flying body splash from the top rope, which Snuka calls The Superfly.
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Killer Kowalski
Władek (later Walter) "Killer" Kowalski (October 13, 1926 – August 30, 2008), born Edward Władysław Spulnik, was a Polish Canadian professional wrestler. Kowalski wrestled for numerous promotions during his career, including the NWA and WWF, and was a known heel wrestler. He held numerous championships including the WWWF World Tag Team Championship with Big John Studd billed as The Executioners and managed by Lou Albano. After retiring in 1977, Kowalski started a professional wrestling school in Malden, Massachusetts and trained many professional wrestlers, including Triple H, Ron Zombie, Chyna, Former Ring of Honor World Heavyweight Champion Eddie Edwards and Kofi Kingston. He was also a vegetarian.
The man later known as "Killer Kowalski" (he legally changed his name in 1963) was the son of Polish immigrants Antoni Spulnik and Maria Borowska, he and his brother Stanley were raised in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Years later, he would tell interviewers that he never expected to be a wrestler. By the age of fourteen, he was already 6 feet 4 inches (193 cm), and because he was thin for his height, he began working out at the local YMCA, but he had no plan to go into athletics at that time. When he entered college, his major was electrical engineering. He worked part-time at the Ford plant in Detroit to help pay his way.
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Kris Aquino
Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino (born February 14, 1971), commonly known as Kris Aquino, is a Filipino television and movie personality who gained prominence from her talk shows, game shows, and numerous endorsements. Known as the Queen of All Media, and Philippines' Queen of Talk, she is the youngest daughter of former Philippine senator Benigno S. Aquino, Jr. and Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, and sister of Benigno S. Aquino, III, the current President of the Philippines.
Her first movie was Pido Dida, Sabay Tayo, which earned her a Box-office Queen title. Her 2004 films such as Feng Shui and So... Happy Together also gave her the Box-office Queen title again.[citation needed] In 2006, she regained the same Box Office title for her movie Sukob, which is the highest-grossing Filipino film of all time. She is also the Executive Editor of her own bi-monthly magazine called K! The Kris Aquino Magazine. In December 2009, Aquino showcased her own Home Collection called K Everyday. In partnership with ABS-CBN Licensing, K Everyday features cooking collection, kitchen collection, plastic collection, and stationery collection.
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Larry Emdur
Larry Emdur (born 9 December 1964) is an Australian television personality.
Emdur is currently co-host of The Morning Show alongside Kylie Gillies. He also hosts a reboot of The Price Is Right, which premiered on the Seven Network on 7 May 2012. He also formerly hosted the show on the Nine Network.
He is perhaps best known to Australian audiences for his hosting duties on several game shows, including Cash Bonanza (Nine Network), The Price Is Right (Currently Seven Network and formerly Nine Network) and Wheel of Fortune (Seven Network).
Emdur hosted Hey Hey it's Saturday twice in 1998, and substituted as host of It Takes Two once in 2006 and again in 2007. He has also hosted Celebrity Dog School on Network Ten.
Emdur was born in Melbourne. Growing up near the beach at Bondi NSW, he developed a keen interest in surfing from an early age. He dropped out of school at age 15. It is believed that he is of Maltese descent. Emdur began his career as a copyboy at The Sydney Morning Herald, before moving into television, where at age 17 he became Australia’s youngest national newsreader, presenting the overnight news for Seven Network in Australia. After some time in news and current affairs as a reporter and newsreader, and presenter on Good Morning Australia, Emdur switched to hosting game shows and variety television.
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Leslie Crowther
Leslie Douglas Sargent CrowtherCBE (6 February 1933 – 29 September 1996) was an English comedian, actor and gameshow host.
Crowther was born in West Bridgford in Nottinghamshire. At the end of 1944 he moved to London with his parents, but was evacuated for a few months to Bute until just after the war ended.
Crowther had stage experience from the mid-1940s. As a youngster, he showed promise as a pianist and in 1944 won a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. He attended the respected Cone-Ripman Drama School in London, where he met his future wife, and at 16, he appeared as a member of the Ovaltineys Concert Party of the Air on Radio Luxembourg. He also attended Nottingham High School and then Thames Valley Grammar School.
When Crowther was 18, his mother died. His father, Leslie Frederick Crowther, was also an actor. Leslie snr was an alcoholic, and died in early January 1955, at the age of 67, ten days after being hit by a car. Leslie jnr had a half-brother, Frank Ronald, from his father's first marriage.
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Lou Albano
Louis Vincent "Captain Lou" Albano (July 29, 1933 – October 14, 2009) was an Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor. He was active as a professional wrestler from 1953 until 1969, then he became a manager, until 1995.
Throughout his 42-year career, Albano guided 15 different tag teams and four singles competitors to championship gold. Albano was part of the "Triumvirate of Terror," a threesome of nefarious WWF managers that also included The Grand Wizard of Wrestling and Fred Blassie. The trio would be fixtures in the company for a decade, until the Grand Wizard's death in 1983.
A unique showman, with an elongated beard, rubber band facial piercings, and loud outfits, Albano was the forefather of the 1980s Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection. Collaborating with Cyndi Lauper, Albano helped usher in wrestling's crossover success with a mainstream audience. Capitalizing on his success, he later ventured into Hollywood with various television, film, and music projects.
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Mae Young
Johnnie Mae Young (born March 12, 1923) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and currently WWE Ambassador.
Young was an influential pioneer in women's wrestling, helping to increase its popularity during World War II and training many generations of wrestlers. She wrestled throughout the United States and Canada, and won multiple titles in the National Wrestling Alliance.
Beginning in 1999, Young had a high-profile "second career" in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Young was part of a recurring comedic duo with best friend The Fabulous Moolah in appearances on WWE televised events. She is a member of the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the WWE Hall of Fame. Young holds the distinction of being the only professional wrestler to wrestle documented matches in nine different decades, having her first in 1939 and her latest match in 2010.
Johnnie Mae Young was an amateur wrestler on her high school's boys' wrestling team at the age of fifteen. Her brothers Fred, Eugen, Lawarence, and Everett taught her to wrestle and helped her join the team. She was the youngest of eight children (one died at birth). Her mother Lilly Mae Young was a single mother (her partner left to find work and never returned) living during the Great Depression. Young's oldest sister Inie was severely disabled by whooping cough at a very young age. Young also played softball with Tulsa's national championship team. While still in high school, Young went to a professional wrestling show and challenged then-champion Mildred Burke when she visited Tulsa to wrestle Gladys Gillem. Because the promoters told her she could not wrestle the champion, she wrestled Gillem in a shoot fight, beating her within seconds. After the fight, promoter Billy Wolfe wanted Young to become a professional wrestler. She left home two years later to wrestle professionally.
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Marc Breslow
Marc Breslow is a former American television director, specializing in game shows for Mark Goodson Productions. Breslow was the director throughout the CBS and syndicated run of Match Game during the 1970s and early 1980s, and was the original director of the 1972 version of The Price Is Right.
Breslow was relieved of his position as director of The Price Is Right by Mark Goodson due to clashes with the show's host, Bob Barker.Paul Alter replaced Breslow as director of The Price Is Right, though Breslow remained on The Price Is Right credits until 1996 under the title of Creative Consultant as part of a 10-year, $1 million severance package. He continued to direct other shows for Mark Goodson Productions.
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Marco Antonio Regil
Marco Antonio Regil (born December 27, 1969) is a Mexican television personality and game show host, born in Tijuana, Mexico. He began his career as a Radio D.J. when he was 15 years old. He has hosted the Mexican (Spanish) and US live casino show version (English) of The Price is Right, the Mexican version of which is called Atinale Al Precio, and both the US Spanish and Mexican versions of Family Feud, as well as Miss Mexico, Dancing with the Stars, Hazme Reir-Make Me Laugh, Telethon and Premio Lo Nuestro.
He was awarded many times as Mexico's number one TV host and was invited by United States President George W. Bush to host the Cinco de Mayo celebration in the White House in 2004.
He is one of the few international quiz show hosts to appear on a US game show. He appeared on The Price Is Right in 1997 and 1998 at the VIP section, where he was introduced by Bob Barker, and appeared on Family Feud in 2002. In 2008 he hosted the live Las Vegas casino show in English. He has also worked on both the 1972 Showcase and the British Showcase formats (as the Mexican version of Price in 2010 has adopted the Forsyth version).
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Mark Goodson
Mark Goodson (January 14, 1915 – December 18, 1992) was an American television producer who specialized in game shows.
Mark Goodson was born in Sacramento, California on January 14, 1915. His parents, Abraham Ellis and Fannie Goodson, emigrated from Russia in the early 1900s. As a child, Goodson acted in amateur theater with the Plaza Stock Company. The family later moved to Hayward, California. Originally intending to become a lawyer, Goodson attended the University of California, Berkeley. He financed his education through scholarships and by working at the Lincoln Fish Market. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1937 with a degree in Economics. That year, he began his broadcasting career in San Francisco, working as a disc jockey at station KJBS. In 1939 he joined radio station KFRC, where he produced and hosted a radio quiz called "Pop the Question" in which contestants selected questions by throwing darts at multi-colored balloons.
In 1941, Goodson married his first wife, Bluma Neveleff, and moved to New York City, where he teamed up with partner Bill Todman. The pair's first radio show, Winner Take All, premiered on CBS in 1946. Outside of television production, Goodson and Todman went on to own several newspapers in New England as well as radio station KOL in Seattle, Washington. Bill Todman died in 1979, and in the early 1980s the Goodsons acquired the Todman heirs' portion of the company.
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Matt Groening
Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening ( /ˈɡreɪnɪŋ/ GRAY-ning; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell (1978–present) as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons (1989–present) and Futurama (1999–2003, 2008–present)
Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The cartoon is still carried in 250 weekly newspapers. Life in Hell caught the attention of James L. Brooks. In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his Life in Hell characters for the show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening decided to create something new and came up with a cartoon family, The Simpsons, and named the members after his own parents and sisters — while Bart was an anagram of the word brat. The shorts would be spun off into their own series: The Simpsons, which has since aired 508 episodes. In 1997, Groening and former Simpsons writer David X. Cohen developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999. After four years on the air, the show was canceled by Fox in 2003, but Comedy Central commissioned 16 new episodes from four direct-to-DVD movies in 2008. Then, in June 2009, Comedy Central ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama, to be aired over two seasons.
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Maurice Vachon
Maurice Vachon (born September 14, 1929) is a retired Canadian professional wrestler, best known by his ring name "Mad Dog" Vachon. He is the brother of wrestlers Paul and Vivian Vachon, and the uncle of wrestler Luna Vachon. He was among the AWA's all-time great heels with a career spanning four decades, while also serving as the leader of one of the sport’s most accomplished families.
Born on September 14, 1929, Maurice Vachon was one of 13 children of Montreal policeman Ferdinand Vachon. He grew up in the district of Ville-Émard, a working-class borough southwest of Montreal. As a child, he regularly attended wrestling shows at the nearby Montreal Forum, where he grew up idolizing local ring legend Yvon Robert; and at just 12 years old, he had already begun grappling at the area's YMCA. He entered a wrestling course advertised at the back of a comic book, and he began training under Chief Jim Crowley. He trained hard and even worked in the docks and on the canal to build up his muscle. By age 14, Vachon eventually established himself among Canada’s premier amateur grapplers.
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Mike McShane
Michael "Mike" McShane (born June 25, 1955) is an American actor, singer, and improvisational comedian. He is best known through his appearances in the early 1990s on the British version of the television show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He is also best known for voicing Marlon, Caracticus P. Doom and various other characters in Cosgrove Hall's Avenger Penguins.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Roeland Park, Kansas, McShane had performed on stage, on television, and in film, and was an alumnus of Los Angeles Theatresports. One of his larger TV roles was as Kramer's nemesis Franklin Delano Romanowski (FDR) on Seinfeld. He also had a cameo role as a doomed hypnotherapist in the film Office Space and played the friendly scientist, Professor Keenbean, in the 1994 movie Ri¢hie Ri¢h.
In 1995, McShane starred as Harley in the BBC Screen Two TV Movie Crazy For A Kiss, about a young boy who is sent to a mental institution for teenagers in Kansas. Touted as being somewhat biographical of McShane's childhood, the film has never been released on video or DVD. McShane appeared in Tom and Huck as Muff Potter and on Brotherly Love as the experienced but wisecracking mechanic, Lloyd.
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Mike Tyson
Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American professional boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with 12 of them occurring in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to individually unify them.
In 1988, Tyson became the lineal champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks in the first 91 seconds of the fight. Tyson successfully defended the world heavyweight championship nine times, including victories over Larry Holmes and Frank Bruno. Tyson lost his titles to 42-to-1 underdog James "Buster" Douglas on February 11, 1990, in Tokyo, Japan, by a knockout in round 10. Tyson continued in his quest to regain the titles, defeating Donovan Ruddock twice in 1991. Tyson was then scheduled to take on the undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield but pulled out due to injury.
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Mike Von Erich
Michael Brett Adkisson (March 2, 1964 – April 12, 1987) was an American professional wrestler under the ring name Mike Von Erich. His four brothers, David, Kerry, Kevin and Chris, also wrestled. He was the son of longtime Texas wrestler and wrestling promoter Fritz Von Erich and a member of the famous Von Erich family.
Several wrestlers associated with Mike, such as his brother Kevin, King Kong Bundy, "Gentleman" Chris Adams, Gary Hart and Jake Roberts, have all stated that he never wanted to be a wrestler. He was not a natural athlete like his older brothers and wanted to work for his father's company, World Class Championship Wrestling, as a cameraman. He also played guitar and wanted to be a musician away from the industry.
Mike made his debut on November 24, 1983 at "WCCW Wrestling Star Wars" at the Reunion Arena in a match against Skandar Akbar and won that match. Mike was then involved in several encounters with The Freebirds. Mike and Michael Hayes brawled on October 17, 1983 in Ft. Worth, when Hayes ripped a jacket Kerry gave Mike. Then Mike and Kevin teamed up against Terry Gordy and Buddy Roberts on December 25. The only time Mike and David ever teamed up was in January 1984 when, along with Kerry, they battled the Freebirds.
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Mikel Scicluna
"Baron" Mikel Scicluna (July 29, 1929 – March 20, 2010) was a Maltese-born professional wrestler who gained his fame during the 1960s and 1970s.
Scicluna started wrestling during the 1950s, and used the name Mike Valentino early in his career. Scicluna worked primarily in Canada until 1965, when he ventured to the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), now known as WWE, using his most famous moniker "Baron" Mikel Scicluna.
Scicluna was famous for entering the ring with a royal blue cape over his shoulders, indicating that he was of Maltese royal descent. Scicluna was also known for being a master of the "foreign object", mainly utilizing a roll of coins to bash opponents out of sight of the referee. He enjoyed success as a tag team wrestler, winning the WWWF United States Tag Team Championship with Smasher Sloan on September 22, 1966 in Washington, D.C. (though they eventually lost the belts in the same city to Spiros Arion and Antonio Pugliese), then the WWWF World Tag Team Championship with King Curtis Iaukea on February 1, 1972 in Philadelphia.
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Mil Máscaras
Aaron Rodríguez (born July 15, 1942), best known as Mil Máscaras (A Thousand Masks), is a semi-retired Mexican professional wrestler and actor, who has starred in several films with fellow luchadores. He is a member of one of Mexico's most prominent wrestling families—his brothers José and Pablo respectively wrestle as Dos Caras and Sicodélico, José's son Alberto wrestles as Alberto Del Rio, and Pablo's son Aaron is better known as Sicodélico, Jr.
Mil Máscaras made his professional wrestling debut in April 1965 in Guadalajara. Máscaras became popular in Mexico for being one of the best conditioned luchadores in the heavyweight division, which was dominated by foreigners at the time. It was also his size which permitted him to wrestle in the US and Japan under the heavyweight division. Máscaras was one of the first masked luchadores outside of Mexico to play a non-heel role. He rarely resorted to rule breaking, instead relying on his repertoire of moves and counter-moves. Máscaras was also one of the first wrestlers to introduce the high-flying moves of lucha libre, such as the plancha and tope suicida, to Japanese fans. This brought him international fame as one of the first high-flyers, something he was not considered in Mexico where he fell under the mat-power category.
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Mister Geppetto
Mister Geppetto (Italian: [dʒepˈpetto];English: /dʒɨˈpɛtoʊ/, US dict: jɨ·pĕt′·ō; Mastro Geppetto) is a fictional character in the novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi. Geppetto is an elderly, impoverished woodcarver and the creator (and thus father) of Pinocchio. He wears a yellow wig that looks like cornmeal mush (or polendina), and subsequently the children of the neighborhood (as well as some of the adults) call him "Polendina", which greatly annoys him. "Geppetto" is a nickname for Giuseppe.
Geppetto is introduced when carpenter Mister Antonio finds a talking block of pinewood which he was about to carve into a leg for his table. Geppetto drops by looking for a piece of wood to build a marionette, seeing a perfect opportunity, Antonio gives the block to Geppetto. Geppetto is extremely poor and plans on making a living as a puppeteer in hopes of earning "a crust of bread and a glass of wine". He carves the block into a boy and names him "Pinocchio". Before he is even built Pinocchio already has a mischievous attitude; no sooner than Geppetto is finished carving Pinocchio's feet does the puppet proceed to kick him. Once the puppet has been finished and Geppetto teaches him to walk, Pinocchio runs out the door and away into the town. He is caught by a carabiniere (a police officer), but when people say that Geppetto dislikes children, the carabiniere assumes that Pinocchio has been treated poorly and imprisons Geppetto. The next morning, Geppetto is released from jail and finds that Pinocchio's feet have burnt off, so makes his son a new pair of feet. Geppetto has with him three pears for a meal, and since Pinocchio says he is starving, Geppetto gives him the pears and teaches Pinocchio to waste nothing. In gratitude, Pinocchio promises to go to school. Since Geppetto has no money to buy school books, he sells his only coat.
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Nick Bockwinkel
Nicholas Warren Francis "Nick" Bockwinkel (born December 6, 1934) is a retired American professional wrestler. He mainly competed in the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the United States. He is a former multi-time AWA World Heavyweight Champion and co-holder of the AWA World Tag Team Championship.
Bockwinkel was considered by his peers and many industry experts to be an excellent wrestler, known for his exceptional technical ability and ring psychology. He was also known for his calm, charismatic, articulate promos, which distinguished him from many of his contemporaries.
Bockwinkel began his career in 1955, after a knee injury forced the University of Oklahoma to withdraw his football scholarship. After training to become a wrestler by his father Warren, a regional star in the 1940s, and Lou Thesz, he spent the early years of his career teaming with his father. At the age of 16, he had his debut match against Thesz. He won his first major singles title in 1963, defeating Tony Borne for the NWA Pacific Northwest Heavyweight Championship.
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Nick Gillespie
Nick Gillespie (born August 8, 1963) is the editor of Reason.com and Reason.tv and was the editor in chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008. He has written articles or been a commentator for many media outlets and edited one anthology, Choice: The Best of Reason.
Gillespie hosts and anchors a number of the Reason TV offerings, and has become, along with Drew Carey, one of the most familiar faces of Reason TV.
Gillespie was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in New Jersey. His educational history includes a B.A. in English and psychology from Rutgers University and a M.A. in English from Temple University, as well as a Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has two sons, Jack Gillespie and Neal.
Prior to joining Reason, Gillespie worked at a number of small trade magazines and other journalistic outlets. He worked for several years at Teen Machine magazine, where he interviewed celebrities and ghost-wrote an advice column for actress Alyssa Milano.
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Nikolai Volkoff
Josip Nikolai Peruzović (born October 14, 1947), better known by his ring name of Nikolai Volkoff, is a professional wrestler who is best known for his performances for the World Wrestling Federation. Although the Volkoff character is portrayed as Russian, Peruzović actually originated from Croatia and had a mixed background that was not entirely Russian.
Peruzović grew up in the Socialist Republic of Croatia, which was then part of the Yugoslavia, a Communist country. His mother is Italian and his father was Croatian. He was on the Yugoslavian weightlifting team until 1967, when he defected to Canada while at a weightlifting tournament in Vienna, Austria. He received training in Calgary from the legendary Stu Hart, followed by his arrival in the United States in 1970.
As soon as he arrived, he began wrestling in the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) (currently known as WWE). Wrestling as Bepo Mongol, managed by "Captain" Lou Albano and partnered with Geto Mongol, he captured the WWF International Tag Team Titles from Tony Marino and Victor Rivera on June 15, 1970. After losing the titles to Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler in a match that unified the WWF International and WWF World Tag Team Titles, Peruzovic went on to singles competition under the name Nikolai Volkoff.
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Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953) is an American investor and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. He is also the 48th richest person in the world along with Germán Larrea Mota-Velasco (and family) who ranks the same with an estimated wealth of $14.2 billion as of March 2012.. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc., which manages his business and philanthropic efforts. Allen also has a multi-billion dollar investment portfolio which includes technology companies, real estate holdings, and stakes in other technology, media, and content companies. Allen also owns two professional sports teams, the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League (NFL), and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is also part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, which joined Major League Soccer (MLS) in 2009. Allen's memoir Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft was released on April 19, 2011.
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Paul Alter
Paul Alter (March 11, 1922 – June 11, 2011) was an American television director, specializing in game shows for Mark Goodson Productions. Alter was best known as the original director of Family Feud from the show's origin in in the mid-1970s until the early 1990s.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Alter studied piano with Teddy Wilson, from the Benny Goodman Quartet. Alter became a talented musician. Later on, Alter would put his talent to use composing the 1969 theme for To Tell the Truth.
His first job as a game show director was on the original CBS version of Beat the Clock in 1950. He then began a long association with Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions, where he worked on many of their shows including What's My Line?, I've Got A Secret and To Tell The Truth. Alter directed the original version of Family Feud which ran on ABC from 1976 to 1985. When Family Feud was revived in 1988, Alter directed on that version as well until October 1990, when Alter left the show to direct the revival of To Tell the Truth. Another show for which he directed both versions was The Price Is Right. He first worked on the original incarnation in New York starring Bill Cullen that ran from 1956 to 1965. In 1986 he became director of the current version of the show, replacing original director Marc Breslow. Alter was relieved of his position as director of The Price Is Right in 2000 by Pearson Television due to an unfavorable deposition against host Bob Barker. Bart Eskander replaced Alter as director of The Price Is Right, though Alter briefly regained his position as part of a special agreement with Pearson.
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Paul Ellering
Paul Ellering (born August 22, 1953) is a retired professional wrestling manager.
Before entering the wrestling business, Ellering was an accomplished weightlifter. He could dead lift 745 lbs.
Ellering was trained in Minneapolis, Minnesota at a camp run by American Wrestling Alliance (AWA) owner and promoter Verne Gagne and wrestler/trainer Eddie Sharkey in the mid 1970s. According to Ellering's RF Video shoot interview, of the thirty-plus trainees in the camp, only himself and later AWA mid-card wrestler Steve Olsonoski (a.k.a. Steve O) made it through the camp. Ellering would later go on to wrestle in singles and tag teams for Gagne in the AWA, Bill Watts's Mid-South promotion, and for Jerry Jarrett's Memphis promotion, where he was paired with manager Jimmy Hart. His notable feuds were with Jesse Ventura as a face, and as a heel with Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Valiant, from whom he won the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship.
While wrestling for Georgia Championship Wrestling, Ellering severely injured his knee in a match with Robert Gibson, reinjuring it after returning to the ring, which ended his full-time wrestling career. Georgia booker Ole Anderson recognized his speaking ability, however, and gave him a job as a manager.
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Paul Merton
Paul Merton (born Paul James Martin; 9 July 1957) is a British comedian, writer, actor and television presenter. Known for his improvisation skill, his humour is rooted in deadpan, surreal and sometimes dark comedy. Considered by a number of critics, fellow comedians and members of the public to be among Britain's greatest comedians, he is well known for his regular appearances as a team captain on the BBC panel game Have I Got News for You, and as the former host of Room 101. He has also appeared as a regular panellist on Radio 4's Just a Minute and as one of Comedy Store's Comedy Store Players.
Merton was born on 9 July 1957 in Parsons Green, London to an English father (a train guard on the London Underground) and an Irish Roman Catholic mother. When his mother returned to work as a nurse, Merton and his younger sister were looked after by their grandfather, who lived with them in their council flat in Mitcham, South London.[citation needed]
He failed his eleven plus and went on to Wimbledon College, a Jesuit-run secondary school that had just become a comprehensive, where he received A-levels in English and History. His experience of victimisation there as a working-class boy became a frequent subject of his comedy.[citation needed] After leaving school, Merton worked at the Tooting employment office for seven years.
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Paul Orndorff
Paul Parlette Orndorff, Jr. (born October 29, 1949) is a retired American professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling as "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff. After retiring, Orndorff worked as a wrestling trainer.
After earning notoriety as a running back at the University of Tampa where he scored 21 career touchdowns and gained over 2000 all-purpose yards in his playing career, Orndorff was a 12th round selection (289th overall pick) in the 1973 NFL Draft by the New Orleans Saints but failed to pass the physical for the NFL with both the Saints and the Kansas City Chiefs. He was a teammate of the #1 pick notorious bad boy John Matuszak. However, he did play for the Jacksonville Sharks of the World Football League in 1975. After one season in the WFL, he began training as a professional wrestler.
Paul Orndorff started wrestling in 1976 in Mid-Southern Wrestling where he feuded with a young Jerry Lawler. Orndorff won his first wrestling title when he pinned Lawler for the Mid-Southern Heavyweight Title on June 7, 1977. Orndorff lost the title back to Lawler before he left the Memphis territory. Orndorff began working for the NWA Tri-State promotion where he got involved in a feud with Ernie Ladd. The feud with Ladd saw Orndorff win the NWA Tri-State North American Heavyweight Title from Ernie Ladd on two occasions (on May 29, 1978 and again in June). Both times, Orndorff’s reigns were short and were ended by Ladd.
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Pedro Morales
Pedro Morales (born October 22, 1942) is a retired Puerto Rican professional wrestler. He began his wrestling career as a teenager in 1959 and continued through to the late 1980s. Morales was the first man in wrestling history to win all three major men's titles in the World Wrestling Federation: the WWF World Heavyweight Championship, the Intercontinental Championship and the WWF World Tag Team Championship. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1995. Morales was also the first Latin American and Hispanic wrestler to win the WWWF Championship and the WWF Intercontinental Championship and to enter the WWF Hall of Fame.
Morales debuted in 1959 at the Sunnyside Gardens, beating Buddy Gilbert. He wrestled on the West Coast during the 1960s, taking on regional stars of the day such as Fred Blassie and The Destroyer, the latter from whom he took the World Wrestling Association's World Heavyweight Championship on March 12, 1965. Morales lost the title on July 23 to "Crazy" Luke Graham, but took it back from him on October 17. He held the title for nine months before being defeated by Buddy Austin on August 5, 1966. Morales then concentrated on tag team wrestling, co-holding the WWA tag belts four times during 1966-68, with four different partners: Luis Hernandez, Mark Lewin, Victor Rivera, and Ricky Romero. During a stint in the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), Morales held the Hawaiian U.S. title for two months in 1969.
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Pete Rose
Peter Edward Rose (born April 14, 1941), nicknamed "Charlie Hustle", is a former Major League Baseball player and manager. Rose played from 1963 to 1986, and managed from 1984 to 1989.
Rose, a switch hitter, is the all-time Major League leader in hits (4,256), games played (3,562), at-bats (14,053) and outs (10,328). He won three World Series rings, three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Gloves, the Rookie of the Year Award, and made 17 All-Star appearances at an unequaled five different positions (2B, LF, RF, 3B & 1B).
In August 1989, three years after he retired as an active player, Rose agreed to permanent ineligibility from baseball amidst accusations that he gambled on baseball games while playing for and managing the Reds, including claims that he bet on his own team. In 1991, the Baseball Hall of Fame formally voted to ban those on the "permanently ineligible" list from induction, after previously excluding such players by informal agreement among voters. In 2004, after years of public denial, Rose admitted to betting on baseball and on, but not against, the Reds. The issue of Rose's possible re-instatement, and election, to the Hall of Fame remains a contentious one throughout baseball.
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Peter Maivia
Fanene Leifi Pita Maivia (April 6, 1937–June 12, 1982) was an American Samoan professional wrestler better known as "High Chief" Peter Maivia. He was head of the famous Samoan wrestling family. He is the grandfather of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and was also the promoter for the National Wrestling Alliance in Hawaii.
Maivia, also known as the Flying Hawaiian, was of the Alii lineage of Malietoa. Maivia's tribal tattoos, which covered his abdomen and legs, were a symbol of his High Chief status. According to Superstar Billy Graham, they were completed in three days. Maivia's grandson Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson revealed that they were done with traditional Samoan instrumentation: a small hammer, a needle, and ink.[citation needed]
Maivia disapproved of his daughter's relationship with Rocky Johnson because he was a professional wrestler. The duo married despite Maivia's objections. His son, Peter Jr, also wrestled in Hawaii and the west coast after the passing of Peter Sr. sometimes under the name "Prince Peter Maivia".
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Ric Flair
Richard Morgan Fliehr (born February 25, 1949) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Ric Flair. Also known as "The Nature Boy", Flair is considered to be one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time with a professional career that spans 40 years. He is currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA), and is noted for his lengthy and highly decorated tenures with the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (now known as WWE). Flair is officially recognized by WWE, TNA and PWI as a 16-time World Heavyweight Champion (seven-time NWA Champion, seven-time WCW Champion and two-time WWF Champion) although his actual tally of World Championship reigns varies by source—Flair considers himself a 21-time world champion.
In World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he also had two stints as a booker—in 1989–1990 and 1994. Flair also became the first and only man to have won the WWF Championship in a Royal Rumble match, when he accomplished this in the 1992 edition of the event. In 2012, Flair became the first ever double inductee in the WWE Hall of Fame, first inducted in 2008 for his individual career, and for a second time in 2012 as a member of the Four Horsemen. He is also an NWA Hall of Famer (class of 2008). Flair's hair styles and mannerisms are based on those of Buddy Rogers, who previously and famously used the "Nature Boy" gimmick in the 1950s and '60s. Coincidentally, Flair also followed Rogers in becoming the second man to win both the WWF and the NWA World Heavyweight Championships.
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Rich Fields
Richard Wayne "Rich" Fields (born November 30, 1960) is an American broadcaster, spokesman, announcer and meteorologist, best known for being the announcer of the American version of The Price Is Right from 2004–2010.
Fields is currently a part-time meteorologist for the CBS owned and operated television stations KCBS-TV and KCAL-TV in Los Angeles, California. Fields can also be heard on the radio on K-EARTH 101 KRTH and on KNX-AM in Los Angeles.
Fields was born in Bay Village, Ohio and raised in Avon, Ohio, before moving to Clearwater, Florida in 1976. He graduated from the University of Florida Gainesville in 1983 with a degree in broadcasting. While attending this university, Fields was diagnosed with both testicular cancer and lymphoma, both of which he survived.
He has had a 32-year career as a radio personality, including a ten year stint at KCBS-FM in Los Angeles, and can still be heard at times on K-EARTH 101 KRTH in Los Angeles. In his early career, Fields worked as a show host and announcer at Universal Studios in Hollywood. Fields is a well-known voice-over personality and has done hundreds of television and radio commercials. In 1995, Fields became the announcer for the Florida Lottery's Flamingo Fortune television game show (a Goodson Production) and held that position for three seasons.
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Richard Vranch
Richard Leslie Vranch (born 29 June 1959 in Frome, England) is a British comedian, actor and musician.
Vranch improvises comedy on stage with the Comedy Store Players every Wednesday and Sunday at The Comedy Store in London. He has voiced British Airways TV and radio commercials since 2003, and he narrates TV documentaries. He has performed since 1979, and formed a comedy double-act with Tony Slattery in 1981. The duo hosted the Channel 4 quiz The Music Game and over 100 episodes of Cue The Music on ITV. He was the improvising pianist and guitarist on the original British television show Whose Line Is It Anyway? in 1988, but only a small proportion of his overall work is musical. Vranch co-wrote and performed in The Paul Merton Show at the London Palladium in 1994.
Acting work includes Dogman, The Dead Set, and sketch shows touring the world from Mexico to the Palestinian Territories. He has improvised comedy in the Middle East, Far East and India - 30 countries in all. He has written for stage, radio and TV, and made several animated films with artist Lucy Allen. They have had their cartoons published in Maxim, Punch, and The Spectator.
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Ricky Steamboat
Richard Henry Blood (born February 28, 1953), better known by his ring name Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat, is a retired American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE working as a road agent. He was one of the few wrestlers who stayed a babyface throughout his career.[citation needed] He is best known for his work with the American Wrestling Association (AWA), the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
In the NWA and WCW, he was a one-time NWA World Heavyweight Champion, a four-time United States Heavyweight Champion, a four-time World Television Champion, a twelve-time World Tag Team Champion (eight-time under the WCW banner,one-time (though unofficial) under the NWA banner, and three-time under the Mid-Atlantic banner), and a two-time Mid-Atlantic Heavyweight Champion. In the WWF/E, Steamboat was a one-time Intercontinental Champion and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2009.
While little is known about Steamboat's personal life, it is a known fact that he went to high school in New York. He was a two time New York State Wrestling qualifier.
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Road Warrior Animal
Joseph Aaron "Joe" Laurinaitis (born January 26, 1960) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring names, Road Warrior Animal and Road Warrior. He is the brother to John Laurinaitis, who is the WWE's Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and the current general manager of both Raw and Smackdown brands of the WWE. Along with Road Warrior Hawk, Laurinaitis was one-half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors or also dubbed as Legion Of Doom.
While living in Chicago, Laurinatis met Michael Hegstrand, later known as Road Warrior Hawk, and the two became close friends. When Laurinaitis was around eight years old, he and Hegstrand both moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota Joe Laurinaitis grew up in Minnesota, having to work for a living from a very early age. He attended Irondale High School. Because of his size and love of power lifting, Joe was an imposing figure and thus a very effective bouncer. He worked as a bouncer at Grandma B's in the Twin Cities where he caught the eye of Eddie Sharkey, a well known wrestling trainer. Sharkey thought that Joe along with Mike Hegstrand, Richard Rood, and Barry Darsow could make it big in professional wrestling. He believed in them so much that he trained all four of them personally.
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Road Warrior Hawk
Michael James Hegstrand (January 26, 1957 – October 19, 2003) was an American professional wrestler. He is best remembered as Road Warrior Hawk, one half of the tag team known as the Road Warriors (WCW) or The Legion of Doom (WWF), with Road Warrior Animal.
While living in Chicago, Hegstrand met Joe Lauranaitis, who would be later known as Road Warrior Animal, and the two became close friends. When Lauranaitis was about eight years old, he and Hegstrand both moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. While living in Minneapolis, Hegstrand attended Patrick Henry High School where he graduated in 1976. After high school, he had various odd jobs to make ends meet. Due to his size and love of power lifting, he was an imposing figure and thus a very effective bouncer. He would work as a bouncer at Grandma B's in the Twin Cities where he caught the eye of Eddie Sharkey, a well known wrestling trainer. Sharkey thought that Hegstrand, along with Joe Laurinaitis, and Barry Darsow could make it big in professional wrestling.
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Rocky Johnson
Rocky Johnson (born Wayde Douglas Bowles; August 24, 1944) is a retired Canadian professional wrestler. Quite popular in his own right in the 1970s and 1980s, he is also known for being the father of actor and professional wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. During his wrestling career he became a 1-time National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) Georgia Champion and also became a 1-time NWA Southern Heavyweight Memphis Champion as well as winning many other championships. Along with his partner Tony Atlas, Johnson was a part of the first black tag team to win the World Tag Team championship in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
Rocky Johnson was born Wayde Douglas Bowles in Amherst, Nova Scotia, where he was raised, the fourth of five sons of Lillian and James Henry Bowles. A Black Nova Scotian, he is descended from slaves who escaped from the American South. At the age of 16, Johnson moved to Toronto, Ontario, where he began wrestling and worked as a truck driver. Initially, he trained to be a boxer and eventually sparred with greats such as Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, but he was always fascinated by wrestling.
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Rod Roddy
Robert Ray "Rod" Roddy (September 28, 1937 – October 27, 2003) was an American radio and television announcer. He is primarily known for his role as an offstage announcer on game shows. Among the shows that he announced are the CBS game shows Whew!, Press Your Luck and The Price Is Right. On the latter two, Roddy appeared on camera on many episodes. Roddy succeeded original announcer Johnny Olson on Price and held the role from 1986 until his death in 2003.
After graduating from Texas Christian University (TCU), Roddy was a disc jockey and talk show host on KLIF and KNUS-FM (Dallas, Texas). He also worked overnights and middays at the Buffalo, New York radio station WKBW AM, a big-signal station covering the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S., and at other high-profile stations. Returning to KLIF and KNUS during the 1970s, Roddy hosted a call-in program, "Rod Roddy's Hotline," whose controversial host and topics made Roddy a frequent target of death threats. He conducted a long-running on-air feud with an elderly woman, dubbed "Granny Hate" by an earlier host, who claimed to represent the local Ku Klux Klan.
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Roddy Piper
Roderick "Roddy" George Toombs (born April 17, 1954), better known by his ring name "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, is a Canadian semi-retired professional wrestler and film actor who is currently signed to WWE. In professional wrestling, he is best known for his work with WWE. Although he is Canadian, due to his Scottish heritage, he was billed as coming from Glasgow in Scotland and was known for his signature kilt and bagpipe entrance music. He earned the nickname "Rowdy" by displaying his trademark "Scottish" rage, spontaneity and quick wit. Despite being a crowd favorite for his rockstar-like persona, he often played the villain. He was also nicknamed "Hot Rod". Never a world champion, he accumulated 34 championships in various promotions during his career. Piper was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005.
Toombs was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He attended Windsor Park Collegiate. His father was an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police while they lived in The Pas, Manitoba. After being expelled from junior high[citation needed] and having a falling out with his father, Piper hit the road and stayed in youth hostels wherever he could find them.
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Roger Dobkowitz
Roger Kurt Dobkowitz (born July 30, 1945 in San Francisco, California) is the head of his own production company in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his 24-year tenure as a producer of the CBS game show The Price Is Right. He graduated from San Francisco State University in 1972 after completing a thesis, An Historical Study of Prime-Time Network Audience Participation Shows 1948-1968. He currently writes a blog that reviews current and past movies.
Other game shows that he has been involved with are Family Feud, the 1970s Double Dare, Now You See It, and the 1973-1982 era of Match Game. Dobkowitz's sister-in-law, Karen Wohlmuth, is the current production manager of Price.
Dobkowitz started as a member of the production staff with The Price Is Right when the show debuted in 1972, and became a producer in 1984. He created eighteen of the show's pricing games (one of which, Gas Money, debuted on the first new episode after his departure). He was also influential in the show's automobile restriction that until 2008 permitted automobiles and trucks from only three American manufacturers (General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler) to be offered as prizes. He won five Emmy Awards for his work on the show.
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Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Texas's 14th congressional district, which includes Galveston, since 1997, and a three-time candidate for President of the United States, as a Libertarian in 1988 and as a Republican in 2008 and currently 2012. He is an outspoken critic of American foreign and monetary policies, including the Military–industrial complex and the Federal Reserve, and is known for his libertarian-leaning views, often differing from his own party on certain issues.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Paul is a graduate of Gettysburg College and Duke University School of Medicine, where he earned his medical degree. He served as a medical officer in the United States Air Force from 1963 until 1968. He worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist from the 1960s to the 1980s, delivering more than 4,000 babies. He became the first Representative in history to serve concurrently with a child in the Senate when his son Rand Paul was elected to the United States Senate for Kentucky in 2010.
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Ron Simmons
Ronald "Ron" Simmons (born May 15, 1958) is an American former professional wrestler and American Football player. He performed for World Championship Wrestling under his real name and in the World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment (WWF/E) under both his real name and the ring names Faarooq Asaad (sometimes spelled Asad) and Faarooq (sometimes spelled Farooq).
In WCW, he was a one time World Heavyweight Champion; as the first of two African Americans to win the title, he is recognized by WWE as the first Black world champion in professional wrestling history, followed by Booker T. He was also a one time World Tag Team Champion with Butch Reed and a one time United States Tag Team Champion with Big Josh. In the WWF, he was a three time Tag Team Champion with Bradshaw as one half of the Acolytes Protection Agency. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2012.
Prior to becoming a professional wrestler, Simmons was an American college and professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL), Canadian Football League (CFL) and United States Football League (USFL) for four seasons during the 1980s. He played college football for Florida State University, and was recognized as an All-American. He played professionally for the NFL's Cleveland Browns, the CFL's Ottawa Rough Riders and the USFL's Tampa Bay Bandits.
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Ryan Stiles
Ryan Lee Stiles (born April 22, 1959) is an American actor, comedian, director, and voice actor whose work is often associated with improvisational comedy. He is best known for his improv and co-production work on the American and British versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? and the role of Lewis Kiniski on The Drew Carey Show. He plays Herb Melnick on the CBS comedy Two and a Half Men and was a performer on the show Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza.
Stiles was born in Seattle, Washington, the youngest of five children. His father Sonny was a fishing plant supervisor. Stiles lived in Vancouver, British Columbia as a teenager. At the age of seventeen, he dropped out of his high school, Richmond Secondary, to pursue a career in comedy. He briefly worked in his father's fish-processing plant to earn a living. He then began performing improv with Vancouver Theatresports League. In 1986, Stiles successfully auditioned for a berth at Toronto's renowned Second City comedy ensemble.
By 1989, Stiles had gained the attention of the producers of the British improvisational comedy show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?. Stiles was a regular on the show until 1998, and the show's short production season allowed him to make numerous television and motion picture appearances in the United States.
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Sandi Toksvig
Sandra Brigitte "Sandi" Toksvig (born 3 May 1958) is a Danish/British comedienne, author and presenter on British radio and television. She currently presents The News Quiz on BBC Radio 4.
Born in Copenhagen, Toksvig began her comedy career at Girton College, Cambridge University, where she wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Footlights. She was there at the same time as fellow members Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, and Emma Thompson, and wrote additional material for the Perrier award-winning Cambridge Footlights Revue. She was also a member of Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society, and moved via children's television onto the comedy circuit. She performed at the first night of The Comedy Store in London and was once part of The Comedy Store Players, an improvisational comedy team.
When I see comedian — and ‘comedienne’, of course I hate it — I think ‘Oh, really?’ because I think of myself as a writer and broadcaster. Sometimes it’s funny but I’ve just done a piece for Radio 3 all about Mary Wollstonecraft [the 18th-century philosopher and feminist] and there’s not a joke in it.
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Shawn Michaels
Michael Shawn Hickenbottom (born July 22, 1965), better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is a retired professional wrestler, and an American television host. He is currently signed to WWE, where he has served as an ambassador for the company since December 2010. Hickenbottom consistently wrestled for WWE, formerly the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), from 1988 until his first retirement in 1998, due to injury. He appeared in non-wrestling roles from 1998 to 2000, and resumed his in-ring career in 2002, retiring in 2010. He also hosts the show MacMillan River Adventures, airing on the Outdoor Channel.
Hickenbottom began his wrestling career with Mid-South Wrestling, now known as Universal Wrestling Federation, and American Wrestling Association (AWA). During his time with AWA, he performed in partnership with Marty Jannetty, as The Midnight Rockers; winning the AWA World Tag Team Championship twice. Hickenbottom and Jannetty briefly signed with World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in 1987, while in contract with AWA. They returned to AWA, only to go back to the WWF in 1988.
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Sherri Martel
Sherri Schrull (born Sherri Russell, February 8, 1958 – June 15, 2007) was an American professional wrestler and manager, better known by her ring names, Sherri Martel and Sensational Sherri.
Martel began her professional wrestling career as a manager. She joined the American Wrestling Association (AWA) in the mid-1980s and held its AWA World Women's Championship three times. In the late 1980s, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where she held the WWF Women's Championship. Also in the WWF, Martel continued to act as a manager to wrestlers such as Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase, and Shawn Michaels. She appeared in Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in the 1990s. In the latter, Martel acted as the manager for the tag team Harlem Heat. After leaving WCW, she made a few wrestling related appearances until her death in 2007.
Martel was first introduced to professional wrestling as a child, when her mother took her and her sister to shows in Mississippi. In 1974, Martel approached Grizzly Smith for advice on becoming a wrestler, but he questioned her conviction and told her to come back to him in five years when she was an adult. She eventually married her second husband and gave birth to a son named Jared, but she soon divorced her husband. During this time, she again became interested in becoming a professional wrestler and sought training from "Mr. Personality" Butch Moore in Memphis, Tennessee. She started wrestling as Sherri Martine, but decided she needed more training. She continued to train at The Fabulous Moolah's school, where Moolah changed her name to Sherri Martel and sent her to wrestle in Japan in 1981. Moolah claims that Martel frequented night clubs and liked to party, which resulted in Moolah kicking her out of the school.
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Sigi Schmid
Siegfried "Sigi" Schmid (born March 20, 1953) is a German-American soccer coach. Born in Tübingen, West Germany, he moved to the United States with his family when he was a child. He played college soccer from 1972 to 1975 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he was a starting midfielder in each of his four years. He coached his former college team, the UCLA Bruins, between 1980 and 1999. During that period, he became one of the most successful collegiate coaches of all time, leading the Bruins to a record of 322–63–33 (wins–losses–draws). The team made 16 consecutive playoff appearances from 1983 to 1998, winning the national championship in 1985, 1990, and 1997. Schmid also worked with US Soccer throughout the 1990s.
Schmid has coached the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer (MLS). He became the head coach of Seattle Sounders FC in 2009. Despite never having played soccer at a professional level, he has the most coaching wins in MLS history, and was the recipient of the MLS Coach of the Year Award in 1999 and 2008. Throughout his career, Schmid has received praise from critics for his ability to identify new talent. His defensive tactics are also highly regarded in the press and often cited as a factor in his success. However, their deployment in his final two seasons with Los Angeles led directly to the termination of his contract.
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Silvio Santos
Silvio Santos (real name Senor Abravanel, born on December 12, 1930) is a Brazilian TV show host and entrepreneur. He is the owner of SBT, the third largest television network in the country.
Santos was born in Rio de Janeiro, in the Lapa region. He is of Sephardi Jewish descent and was born to a Turkish mother and a Greek father. Despite his humble beginnings, working as a street vendor, he had a strong affinity for artistic endeavors and took up jobs on the radio, circus and television.
He became the major TV host in Brazil. His greatest achievement was founding SBT in 1981, where he still hosts various programs. His business, Grupo Sílvio Santos (GSS), also owns agribusiness ventures and hotels. He is the single biggest taxpayer natural person in Brazil. Additionally, Santos is known as a benefactor of the Jewish community.
He has influenced Brazilian television in many ways, particularly by producing local versions of popular international formats such as Celebrity Big Brother, Candid Camera, The Biggest Loser, Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, Deal or No Deal, the RTL Idols franchise, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. He also was the host of Show do Milhão, a game show also broadcast by ITV in England. The show received was later ported to some videogames, as SEGA Mega Drive 3, with the game built-in, manufactured by Brazilian SEGA's distributor Tectoy, and for Microsoft Windows (with his original dubbing).
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Stephen Frost
Stephen Frost (born 28 December 1955), also known as Steve Frost, is an English comedian.
Frost is known for his work in the 1980s with Mark Arden as part of the double act The Oblivion Boys on Saturday Live. Veterans of the alternative comedy scene, he and Arden appeared in The Young Ones, and later had their own TV series Lazarus and Dingwall on BBC2.
The duo appeared in a series of British TV advertisements ending with the catchphrase "I bet he drinks Carling Black Label". One spoofed the "launderette" commercial for Levi in which Nick Kamen stripped to his underwear; in their pastiche, Arden and Frost played launderette customers who were stripped entirely, with just strategically placed books maintaining their modesty.
Without Arden, Frost has appeared on Radio 4's Just a Minute, and the improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He has appeared on three episodes of Have I Got News for You (there was a 13-year gap between his second and third appearance) and on Never Mind the Buzzcocks. He also appeared as Dirk in Tony Bagley's series Married.
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Stephen Fry
Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English actor, screenwriter, author, playwright, journalist, poet, comedian, television presenter, film director, and a director of Norwich City Football Club.
After a troubled childhood and adolescence, during which he was expelled from a number of schools and eventually spent three months in prison for credit card fraud, he was able to secure a place at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied English Literature.
He first came to public attention in the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue presentation "The Cellar Tapes", which also included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery. With Hugh Laurie, as the comedy double act Fry and Laurie, he co-wrote and co-starred in A Bit of Fry & Laurie, and took the role of Jeeves (with Laurie playing Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster.
As an actor, Fry played the lead in the film Wilde, was Melchett in the BBC television series Blackadder, starred as the title character Peter Kingdom in the ITV series Kingdom, has a recurring guest role as Dr. Gordon Wyatt on the Fox crime series Bones and appeared as rogue TV host Gordon Deitrich in the dystopian thriller V For Vendetta. He has also written and presented several documentary series including the 2008 television series Stephen Fry in America, which saw him travelling across all 50 US states. Since 2003 he has been the host of the quiz show QI.
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Steve Steen
Steve Steen (born December 26, 1954) is a British actor and comedian best known for his improvisation partnership with Jim Sweeney.
The pair met at school in London and joined a theatre club in 1972. The two then wrote and starred in a show which parodied much of the other shows being held in London that year. They then formed their own theatre company and wrote and toured productions around the UK for the rest of the 1970s.
The two have worked together as writers, guest comics, support acts and improvisers ever since, although Steen has done his share of straight acting, including a part in the movie version of BBC sitcom Porridge in 1979. Although he had lines to say as young convict Wellings, the final cut showed him frequently onscreen yet without saying a word. He was, however, credited.
Steen and Sweeney appeared on television together for the first time in 1981 with the ITV children's show CBTV, followed by one of Channel 4's first comedies, Little Armadillos and a role for Steen in Ben Elton's idyllic comedy Happy Families. Rory Bremner then recruited them as resident support performers on his first sketch show for the BBC, and shortly afterwards they starred as poets Byron (Steen) and Coleridge (Sweeney) in an episode of Blackadder the Third.
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Stu Hart
Stewart Edward "Stu" Hart, CM (May 3, 1915 – October 16, 2003) was a Canadian amateur wrestler, professional wrestler, promoter and trainer. Hart founded Stampede Wrestling, a promotion based in Calgary, Alberta and associated wrestling school "The Dungeon." The patriarch of the Hart wrestling family, Stu was the father of many wrestlers, most notably Bret and Owen Hart. Along with Bret and Owen, Hart's trainees included future world champions Chris Jericho, Edge, Christian, Mark Henry, and Chris Benoit.
Hart played football for the Edmonton Eskimos in the 1938 and 1939 seasons. Stu Hart began amateur wrestling when he joined the YMCA in Edmonton in 1929. By 1937 he won a gold medal in the welterweight class from the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada. His amateur career peaked in May 1940 when Hart won the Dominion Amateur Wrestling Championship in the light heavyweight category. It must have been a bittersweet win for Hart as by that time the Phoney War had ended in Europe, and World War II had erupted. This led to the cancellation of the Olympics ending one of Hart's greatest dreams. Hart did enlist in the Canadian Navy and served as the Director of Athletics.
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Tammy Lynn Sytch
Tamara "Tammy" Lynn Sytch (born December 7, 1972) is an American professional wrestling manager, personality,and occasional wrestler. She achieved her greatest success under the ring name Sunny within the World Wrestling Federation during the 1990s, and is widely considered as one of the first Divas. She also performed under her own name in Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling and Ring of Honor.
Sytch grew up in a strict family with a father who was retired from the United States Navy. She attended the same high school as her long-time boyfriend Chris Candido.Upon entering Smoky Mountain wrestling in 1993, a kayfabe claim was made that she had come from studying pre-law at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She then switched to pre-med at the University of Tennessee, with the ambition to be a pediatrician. During college, she worked as a freelance photographer.
Sytch started out traveling with her boyfriend Chris Candido to make some extra money. In late-1992, she signed a six month deal with Smoky Mountain Wrestling. She first appeared onscreen as Tammy Fytch in 1993. She played a villain, who idolized Hillary Clinton. In her first storyline with the company, she threatened to file a sexual discrimination lawsuit due to the lack of prominent positions offered to females. She managed Brian Lee to the Heavyweight Championship and also began accompanying Candido in his matches, as well. By May 1994, she was managing the two men as a tag team, which won the Tag Team Championship from The Rock 'n' Roll Express. Both Sytch and Candido, however, left the promotion in early 1995 for jobs with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
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Ted DiBiase
Theodore Marvin "Ted" DiBiase, Sr. (born January 18, 1954) is a retired professional wrestler, manager, ordained minister and color commentator. DiBiase achieved championship success in a number of wrestling promotions, holding thirty titles during his professional wrestling career. He is best recalled by mainstream audiences for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where he wrestled as "The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase.
Among other accolades in the WWF, DiBiase was the first WWF North American Heavyweight Champion, a three-time WWF Tag Team Champion (with Irwin R. Schyster) and the 1988 King of the Ring. DiBiase also created his own championship, the Million Dollar Championship. He was well known for his cutting-edge heel promos, which were often concluded with his trademark evil laugh; DiBiase has been described by WWE as the organization's "most despised villain" during the late 1980s. He held the WWF Championship belt in 1988 after purchasing it from André the Giant, but this period is not recognized by WWE as an official title reign. Nonetheless, DiBiase frequently performed in main event matches and has been cited as one of the finest in-ring technicians in history.
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Terry Funk
Terrence "Terry" Funk (born June 30, 1944) is an American professional wrestler and actor known chiefly for the hardcore wrestling style he adopted in the latter part of his career that inspired many younger wrestlers, including Mick Foley. Funk has appeared in the NWA, AWA, WWF/E, WCW, ECW, USWA, ROH, and TNA.
Funk held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship once and ECW World Heavyweight Championship once (ECW awarded him the honorary lifetime title of ECW Champion due to his contributions to the promotion). In addition, he won the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship once, the IWA World Heavyweight Championship twice, the ECW World Heavyweight Championship once (the reign was under Eastern Championship Wrestling name), the 3PW World Heavyweight Championship once. He is the only man to have been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, the WCW Hall of Fame, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, the NWA Hall of Fame, the Hardcore Hall of Fame, and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. Funk was a primary subject of the documentary film Beyond the Mat. Funk is often noted for the longevity of his career, which has included multiple "retirement" matches.
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The Fabulous Moolah
Mary Lillian Ellison (July 22, 1923 – November 2, 2007) better known by her ring name The Fabulous Moolah, was an American female professional wrestler. She began her career working with promoter Billy Wolfe and his wife, wrestler and trainer Mildred Burke, as well as working alongside professional wrestler "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers. She won the NWA World Women's Championship in 1956 and was the most prominent holder of the title for approximately the next thirty years.
In the 1980s, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) as part of the Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection storyline, feuding with Cyndi Lauper and Wendi Richter, the latter of whom defeated her for the WWF Women's Championship in 1984. Ellison was marketed by the WWF (later World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE) as holding the record for the longest title reign by any athlete in any professional sport. According to WWE, she was also the first WWF Women's Champion and held the title a total of four times.
In addition, Ellison was a prominent trainer and promoter in woman's professional wrestling. In the 1990s, she returned to the WWF in a comedic role with longtime friend Mae Young. Ellison became the oldest champion in the history of professional wrestling when she won the WWF Women's Championship at age 76, in 1999. In 2010, WWE recognized her as the 27th best wrestler ever.
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Tito Santana
Merced Solis (born May 10, 1953) better known by his ring name Tito Santana, is an American professional wrestler whose heyday spanned from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, though he continues to appear on the independent circuit. He is best known from his time in the World Wrestling Federation. Competing almost exclusively in the WWF from 1979 to 1993, Solis helped bridge the gap between the 1980s "Rock 'n Wrestling Connection" era to the 1990s "New Generation" era. He also won the first match in WrestleMania history.
Solis played tight end for West Texas A&M University, where he was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity. The team was quarterbacked by future professional wrestler Tully Blanchard, who would introduce him into the world of professional wrestling. After graduation, Solis was cut by the Kansas City Chiefs during training camp. He played one season for the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League, appearing in 13 regular-season games.
He pro debuted in Championship Wrestling From Florida in 1977, also worked in Georgia Championship Wrestling in 1977-78, until he joined the World Wrestling Federation in 1979. After a near 3 year run in the American Wrestling Association form 1980-1982 he returned to World Wrestling Federation in 1983.
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Tony Atlas
Anthony White (born April 23, 1954) better known by his ring name "Tony Atlas" is an American bodybuilder, powerlifter, and professional wrestler who has held multiple titles and championships in each sport. He is also known by his bodybuilding title, "Mr. USA" (a distinction he earned three times), the nom de guerre the "Black Superman", as well as an alter ego named Saba Simba. He returned as an on screen manager for WWE, appearing on its now-defunct ECW brand.
Atlas started wrestling in 1975 for the National Wrestling Alliance World Wide/Mid Atlantic area. His debut, on July 10, was a tag team match with Bob Bruggers against Art Neilson and The Blue Scorpion. The match finished with Atlas winning the fall for his team with a sleeper hold on the Blue Scorpion.
Throughout his career he worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW), the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions, the World Wrestling Council (WWC), World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), the American Wrestling Association (AWA), and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). Among his regular partners were Tommy Rich (as "TNT"), Dick Murdoch, and Rocky Johnson. He was also the very first man to press slam and pin Hulk Hogan though Hogan's foot was on the rope and the referee didn't see it.[citation needed]
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Tony Slattery
Anthony Declan James "Tony" Slattery (born 9 November 1959), is an English actor and comedian. He has appeared on British television regularly since the mid 1980s, most notably as a regular on the Channel 4 improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway? His serious and comedic film work has included roles in The Crying Game, Peter's Friends, and How to Get Ahead in Advertising.
Slattery was born in Stonebridge, London into a working class background, the fifth and last child of Irish immigrants, Michael and Margaret Slattery. Much younger than his sister Marlene and his triplet brothers, Christopher, Michael and Stephen, he tended to be a "loner." In his youth, he represented England in under-15 judo achieving a black belt before he was 16. Educated at Gunnersbury Boys' Grammar School in West London, he won a scholarship to study Modern and Medieval Languages at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, specializing in French literature and Spanish poetry. At Cambridge he discovered a love of the theatre, taking delight in making people laugh. He met Stephen Fry, who invited him to join the Cambridge Footlights, and his fellow students included Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson, Jan Ravens (first female president of the Footlights), Sandi Toksvig, Morwenna Banks and Richard Vranch. In 1981, he and Fry, Laurie, Thompson, Toksvig and director Ravens won the inaugural Perrier Award for their revue The Cellar Tapes. The following year he was made president of the Footlights. During his tenure, the touring annual revue was Premises Premises.
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Tully Blanchard
Tully Arthur Blanchard (born January 22, 1954) is a semi-retired second generation American professional wrestler. He is best known as an original member of the Four Horsemen.
He worked for most of the major professional wrestling organizations in the United States: the National Wrestling Alliance, American Wrestling Association, World Championship Wrestling, and the World Wrestling Federation (now known as WWE). As of March 31st, 2012, Tully Blanchard was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Horsemen.
As the son of wrestling promoter and former American Wrestling Association star Joe Blanchard, Tully Blanchard was involved in professional wrestling at a very young age. He began selling programs and refreshments at the arenas at the age of ten, and worked as a referee when he was older. Blanchard attended West Texas State University, where he played American football, first as a quarterback and then as a defensive end, alongside fellow future wrestlers Tito Santana and Ted DiBiase.
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Verne Gagne
Laverne Clarence "Verne" Gagne (born February 26, 1926), is a retired American professional wrestler, football player, and professional wrestling trainer and promoter. He was the former owner/promoter of the American Wrestling Association (AWA), based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was the predominant promotion throughout the Midwest and Manitoba for many years. He remained in this position until 1991, when the company folded.
Gagne is a 16-time world heavyweight champion, having held the AWA World Heavyweight Championship 10-times, the World Heavyweight Championship (Omaha version) 5-times, and the IWA World Heavyweight Championship once. Gagne holds the record for the most combined days as a world champion and is third behind Bruno Sammartino and Lou Thesz for the longest single world title reign. He is one of six men inducted into each of the WWE Hall of Fame, the WCW Hall of Fame, the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame.
Verne Clarence Gagne grew up on a farm in Corcoran, Minnesota. He left home at the age of 14 after his mother died. Verne went to Robbinsdale High School and excelled in football, baseball and wrestling, winning district, regional and state championships in high school wrestling, as well as being named to the All-State Football Team. In 1943, Gagne was recruited to play football at the University of Minnesota, where he was named to the All-Conference Team. After one year of college, he enlisted with the United States Marine Corps. Gagne chose to return to the University of Minnesota, where, as an amateur wrestler, he captured two NCAA titles. He was also an alternate for the U.S freestyle wrestling team at the 1948 Olympic Games; he later said that he might have wrestled in the Olympics, but his coaches had discovered that he had earned money winning a wrestling match at a carnival, thus putting his amateur standing in question.[citation needed]
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Wayne Brady
Wayne Alphonso Brady (born June 2, 1972) is an American actor, singer, comedian and television personality, known for his work as a regular on the American version of the improvisational comedy television series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and as the host of the daytime talk show The Wayne Brady Show. He was the original host of Fox's Don't Forget the Lyrics!, and currently hosts the 2009 revival of Let's Make a Deal.
Brady was born in Columbus, Georgia to West Indian parents, and moved to Orlando, Florida as a young child to live with his grandmother and aunt. When Brady talks about his "Mom," he is referring to his grandmother, Valerie Petersen, who raised him. At 16, he started performing in community theater and at the Orlando improv troupe SAK Comedy Lab where he first started developing his improv skills. He attended Dr. Phillips High School, in Orlando, Florida, where he graduated in 1989. In 1990, he enrolled at the University of Miami. In 1996, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he continued developing his acting skills.
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Wendi Richter
Wendi Richter (born September 6, 1961) is a retired American professional wrestler. She began her professional wrestling career in companies such as the National Wrestling Alliance, where she teamed with Joyce Grable, with whom she held the NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship twice. In the 1980s, she joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF). She held the WWF Women's Championship twice and feuded with The Fabulous Moolah over the title. She was also involved in a storyline with singer Cyndi Lauper called the "Rock 'n' Wrestling Connection." Richter, however, left the WWF after losing the championship in controversial fashion. She then worked in the World Wrestling Council and American Wrestling Association, where she held both companies' women's titles.
Wendi Richter was trained at The Fabulous Moolah's Lillian Ellison School of Professional Wrestling and made her professional debut in 1979. In early 1982, Richter tag teamed with Moolah against Velvet McIntyre and Princess Victoria for three matches for the World Wide Wrestling Federation. Richter was later paired with Joyce Grable, with whom she also trained for six weeks, to form a tag team called The Texas Cowgirls. In late 1982, they wrestled in a series of matches in Canada's Stampede Wrestling against Velvet McIntyre and Judy Martin. She continued her feud with McIntyre in Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling Association, where she was defeated twice. Richter and Grable continued their rivalry with McIntyre and Martin into April 1983 in Verne Gagne's American Wrestling Association. In May, the team reformed in Stampede Wrestling in matches against McIntyre and Penny Mitchell. The team also won the NWA Women's World Tag Team Championship twice.
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Carey, Drew Filmography
- WrestleMania XXVII (2011)
- Jack and Jill (2011)
- WWE Hall of Fame 2011 (2011)
- Dream Camp: Cal-Earth (2011)
- WTF! - Wow That's Funny! (2010)
- Reason Saves Cleveland with Drew Carey (2010)
- Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbooked Concert for Autism Education (2010)
- WTF! - Wow That's Funny! (2010)
- Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief (2010)
- 2009 Game Show Awards (2009)
- Make 'Em Forget (2009)
- Mississippi Drug War Blues: The Case of Cory Maye (2008)
- WWE Royal Rumble: The Complete Anthology, Vol. 3 (2008)
- The Bob & Tom Show (2008)
- Channel 101 (2006)
- Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures: World Cup 2006 (2006)
- Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures: World Cup 2006 (2006)
- Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures: World Cup 2006 (2006)
- Comedy Club Shoot-Out: Vol. 1 (2006)
- Comedy Club Shoot-Out: Vol. 2 (2006)
- Special Thanks to Roy London (2005)
- Fuck (2005)
- Robots (2005)
- Assembling 'Robots': The Magic, the Music, & the Comedy (2005)
- The Making of 'Robots' (2005)
- The Aristocrats (2005)
- Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie (2005)
- Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates (2004)
- Rated 'R': Republicans in Hollywood (2004)
- Green Screen Show (2004)
- Comedy Central Presents: 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of All Time (2004)
- TV's Greatest Sidekicks (2004)
- TV Guide Close Up: From Comedy Club to Primetime (2004)
- Pepsi Play for a Billion (2003)
- One Shot (2003)
- ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2003)
- 'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Ultimate Video Collection (2003)
- Playboy's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2003)
- 100 Years of Hope and Humor (2003)
- Playboy: Inside the Playboy Mansion (2002)
- Rock & Roll Back to School Special (2001)
- Comedy Central Presents: The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Hugh Hefner (2001)
- Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age of Comedy (2001)
- House of Cards (2001)
- Improv All Stars (2001)
- Just for Laughs: Montreal Comedy Festival (2001)
- Playboy Exposed: Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored (2001)
- Rock & Roll Back to School Special (2001)
- Royal Rumble (2001)
- House of Cards (2001)
- Improv All Stars (2001)
- House of Cards (2001)
- Rock & Roll Back to School Special (2001)
- Rock & Roll Back to School Special (2001)
- Geppetto (2000)
- Geppetto (2000)
- The Big Tease (1999)
- 'Weird Al' Yankovic Live! (1999)
- Al TV #8 (1999)
- 1st Annual TV Guide Awards (1999)
- Play It to the Bone (1999)
- Comedy Central Presents: The N.Y. Friars Club Roast of Drew Carey (1998)
- Sex, Drugs, and Freedom of Choice (1998)
- The 23rd Annual People's Choice Awards (1997)
- The 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1997)
- Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary Party (1997)
- Oops! The World's Funniest Outtakes 5 (1997)
- Mr. Vegas All-Night Party Starring Drew Carey (1997)
- Mr. Vegas All-Night Party Starring Drew Carey (1997)
- The 19th Annual CableACE Awards (1997)
- The 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1997)
- The 18th Annual CableACE Awards (1996)
- Caesars Palace 30th Anniversary Celebration (1996)
- Kicking Aspen: Extreme Comedy (1996)
- The 22nd Annual People's Choice Awards (1996)
- Freaky Friday (1995)
- The Drew Carey Show (1995)
- Comic Relief VII (1995)
- People Yearbook '95 (1995)
- Sounds Dangerous (1995)
- Hot Country Jam '94 (1994)
- Coneheads (1993)
- Drew Carey: Human Cartoon (1993)
- Drew Carey: Human Cartoon (1993)
- Drew Carey: Human Cartoon (1993)
- 10th Annual Montreal Comedy Festival (1992)
- The 14th Annual Young Comedians Special (1991)
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Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 1
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- Duration: 20:32
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
tv.gsn.com Catch Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and more of your favorite improv stars on the first episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
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tv.gsn.com Catch Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and more of your favorite improv stars on the first episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
Craig Ferguson 5/27/11D Late Late Show Drew Carey XD
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- Duration: 8:59
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Craig chats with Drew Carey from "The Price is Right" and "Drew Carey's Improv-a-ganza"...
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Craig chats with Drew Carey from "The Price is Right" and "Drew Carey's Improv-a-ganza"...
- published: 28 May 2011
- views: 112397
- author: TVsCraigFerguson
Whose Line is it Anyway? Africa is a CONTINENT!!!
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- Duration: 5:54
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Drew Carey accidently let's slip that Africa is a Country instead of a Continent, he pays dearly for that mistake throughout the episode... He gets his revenge on Greg at the end though
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Drew Carey accidently let's slip that Africa is a Country instead of a Continent, he pays dearly for that mistake throughout the episode... He gets his revenge on Greg at the end though
- published: 02 Aug 2007
- views: 1038083
- author: DaveofRandomness
Best of Whose Line is it Anyway - Part 1
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- Duration: 9:41
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Best of Whose Line is it Anyway - Part 1 * I don't mean to steal these from www.youtube.com/whoselinevideos , if he reposts the videos I will gladly remove these.
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Best of Whose Line is it Anyway - Part 1 * I don't mean to steal these from www.youtube.com/whoselinevideos , if he reposts the videos I will gladly remove these.
- published: 28 Feb 2008
- views: 2434826
- author: hassiii
Drew Carey loses it
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- Duration: 1:29
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
A very funny moment on America's #1 game show. I've been watching the show since it started and Drew is laughing harder than I've ever seen the show's original host (Bob Barker) ever laugh on the show.
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A very funny moment on America's #1 game show. I've been watching the show since it started and Drew is laughing harder than I've ever seen the show's original host (Bob Barker) ever laugh on the show.
- published: 20 Mar 2008
- views: 1365931
- author: LNPGuy
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 31
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- Duration: 20:32
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Jeff and Brad bring in the flavor of Jamaica, and Colin lets his wolverine loose!
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gsntv.com Jeff and Brad bring in the flavor of Jamaica, and Colin lets his wolverine loose!
- published: 03 Feb 2012
- views: 74371
- author: GSNVideos
Whose Line: Number of Words
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- Duration: 3:15
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Say it with me! I'm Fiesty! lol, Enjoy!
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Drew Carey Show - Five O'Clock World
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- Duration: 2:17
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
The complete opening sequence of The Drew Carey Show sans the credit titles. The song, 5 O'Clock world is by The Vogues. No copyright infringement intended! If copyright owner wishes the video to be removed please contact me directly. Thanks.
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The complete opening sequence of The Drew Carey Show sans the credit titles. The song, 5 O'Clock world is by The Vogues. No copyright infringement intended! If copyright owner wishes the video to be removed please contact me directly. Thanks.
- published: 17 Feb 2008
- views: 471699
- author: langsense
Drew Carey Show - Colin Mochrie scenes
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- Duration: 10:32
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
All of the moments from the Drew Carey Show featuring Colin Mochrie in the role of Eugene Anderson, who appeared in three episodes.
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All of the moments from the Drew Carey Show featuring Colin Mochrie in the role of Eugene Anderson, who appeared in three episodes.
- published: 08 Sep 2012
- views: 27417
- author: clerade
Jeff Ross - Drew Carey Roast
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- Duration: 4:06
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
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Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 2
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- Duration: 20:47
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Ryan and Colin perform a prostate exam, and Charlie Sheen stops by to do an improv game with the cast!
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Ryan and Colin perform a prostate exam, and Charlie Sheen stops by to do an improv game with the cast!
- published: 13 Sep 2011
- views: 549493
- author: GSNVideos
The Debut of Cleveland Rocks - The Drew Carey Show
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:47
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
Intro to the third episode, third season, first time we glimpse the 'Cleveland Rocks' theme, or a version of it. Go nuts! It's a song, and it's a tv show, not a war folks, relax. Overly offensive comments will get removed.
http://wn.com/The_Debut_of_Cleveland_Rocks_The_Drew_Carey_Show
Intro to the third episode, third season, first time we glimpse the 'Cleveland Rocks' theme, or a version of it. Go nuts! It's a song, and it's a tv show, not a war folks, relax. Overly offensive comments will get removed.
- published: 13 Sep 2006
- views: 283365
- author: dennywan
drew carey vid 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:21
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Drew carey first starting his comedy life on the all known "Johnny Carson Show"
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Drew carey first starting his comedy life on the all known "Johnny Carson Show"
- published: 05 Feb 2009
- views: 20734
- author: kicknit2013
Medical Marijuana by Drew Carey and Reason.tv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:44
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
One of the most outrageous consequences of the War on Drugs is the federal crackdown on medical marijuana, which is used by patients to help treat the effects of cancer, glaucoma, HIV-AIDS, chronic pain and nausea, and other severe symptoms associated with serious illnesses. Medical marijuana prescribed by a physician is legal in California and 11 other states, yet the federal agents are raiding state-approved dispensaries and preventing patients from having safe access to this drug. In Episode 2 of The Drew Carey Project at Reason.tv, Drew takes a look at patients who need and use medical marijuana in California, and how the federal government is making their lives even worse. Visit www.reason.tv for more.
http://wn.com/Medical_Marijuana_by_Drew_Carey_and_Reasontv
One of the most outrageous consequences of the War on Drugs is the federal crackdown on medical marijuana, which is used by patients to help treat the effects of cancer, glaucoma, HIV-AIDS, chronic pain and nausea, and other severe symptoms associated with serious illnesses. Medical marijuana prescribed by a physician is legal in California and 11 other states, yet the federal agents are raiding state-approved dispensaries and preventing patients from having safe access to this drug. In Episode 2 of The Drew Carey Project at Reason.tv, Drew takes a look at patients who need and use medical marijuana in California, and how the federal government is making their lives even worse. Visit www.reason.tv for more.
- published: 01 Nov 2007
- views: 109495
- author: ReasonTV
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza: Garbage Men
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:09
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
tv.gsn.com In this game of Sound Effects, there's a lot of trash to take out- just ask Jeff's muscles.
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Garbage_Men
tv.gsn.com In this game of Sound Effects, there's a lot of trash to take out- just ask Jeff's muscles.
- published: 15 Apr 2011
- views: 179495
- author: GSNVideos
Whose Line Bloopers: Greg Proops Taping 108
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:24
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
**Comments** Here's more of the great stuff with alot more bloopers and outtakes, Wayne makes one of the most gut busting jokes in hats, Drew disses Greg in Let's Make A Date, Greg gets his feelings hurt, Drew and Greg Make up, Drew screws up on introducing Props, Rap isn't a style of music, All Peaches get 500 points, Mess ups in Dead Bodies, Uncensored Props Suggestions, Wayne gets it on in the Intros, Ryan screws with Dan in Multiple Personalities, Drew tells a line from his roast, Ryan ask about the next bathroom break, Ryan and Colin do an uncensored pickup from Greatest Hits, The ending outtake is the same roast one but a different shot of the cast members. Questions - 1. Favorite Bloopers in this one?
http://wn.com/Whose_Line_Bloopers_Greg_Proops_Taping_108
**Comments** Here's more of the great stuff with alot more bloopers and outtakes, Wayne makes one of the most gut busting jokes in hats, Drew disses Greg in Let's Make A Date, Greg gets his feelings hurt, Drew and Greg Make up, Drew screws up on introducing Props, Rap isn't a style of music, All Peaches get 500 points, Mess ups in Dead Bodies, Uncensored Props Suggestions, Wayne gets it on in the Intros, Ryan screws with Dan in Multiple Personalities, Drew tells a line from his roast, Ryan ask about the next bathroom break, Ryan and Colin do an uncensored pickup from Greatest Hits, The ending outtake is the same roast one but a different shot of the cast members. Questions - 1. Favorite Bloopers in this one?
- published: 21 Jan 2009
- views: 150165
- author: 12Medbe
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 8
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:07
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Jeff and Jonathan give a divorce lawyer some love, and Chip and Greg ready their store window for the holiday season.
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_8
gsntv.com Jeff and Jonathan give a divorce lawyer some love, and Chip and Greg ready their store window for the holiday season.
- published: 24 Jan 2012
- views: 84924
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 33
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:02
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
tv.gsn.com Drew hones his skills as a pole dancer and then becomes a member of "The White Man Group".
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_33
tv.gsn.com Drew hones his skills as a pole dancer and then becomes a member of "The White Man Group".
- published: 21 Sep 2011
- views: 134713
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 34
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:02
- Updated: 29 Dec 2012
Audience member Christie gets a dreamy doo-wop love song from Chip, Brad, and Jeff, and Drew and Kathy go on a first date.
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_34
Audience member Christie gets a dreamy doo-wop love song from Chip, Brad, and Jeff, and Drew and Kathy go on a first date.
- published: 22 Sep 2011
- views: 117295
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey on Jimmy Kimmel Live PART 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:29
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
Jimmy Kimmel Live - The second part of Jimmy's interview with Drew Carey Jimmy Kimmel Live's YouTube channel features clips and recaps of every episode from the late night TV show on ABC. Subscribe for clips from the monologue, the interviews, and musical performances every day of the week. Watch your favorites parts again, or catch-up on any episodes you may have missed. Channel: www.youtube.com Subscribe: www.youtube.com For tickets: www.1iota.com
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Jimmy Kimmel Live - The second part of Jimmy's interview with Drew Carey Jimmy Kimmel Live's YouTube channel features clips and recaps of every episode from the late night TV show on ABC. Subscribe for clips from the monologue, the interviews, and musical performances every day of the week. Watch your favorites parts again, or catch-up on any episodes you may have missed. Channel: www.youtube.com Subscribe: www.youtube.com For tickets: www.1iota.com
- published: 17 May 2012
- views: 23791
- author: JimmyKimmelLive
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - The Best of Wayne Brady
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:21
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
tv.gsn.com Wayne Brady was a special guest this season, and his presence was nothing short of memorable! Here are a few of his greatest moments.
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_The_Best_of_Wayne_Brady
tv.gsn.com Wayne Brady was a special guest this season, and his presence was nothing short of memorable! Here are a few of his greatest moments.
- published: 12 Jul 2011
- views: 100159
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Green Screen Show - Jeff/Chip Underwear
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:51
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
One of my favorite episodes from the "Drew Carey's Green Screen Show." Jeff Davis, Chip Esten, and underwear.
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One of my favorite episodes from the "Drew Carey's Green Screen Show." Jeff Davis, Chip Esten, and underwear.
- published: 05 May 2009
- views: 54300
- author: bobfredkowalski
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:02
- Updated: 30 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Will Drew's aerobics center help Heather's family problems? Will Ryan and Jeff successfully reverse their rear-ending scenario? The only place you'll find answers is in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_5
gsntv.com Will Drew's aerobics center help Heather's family problems? Will Ryan and Jeff successfully reverse their rear-ending scenario? The only place you'll find answers is in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 97760
- author: GSNVideos
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Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 1
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:32
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
tv.gsn.com Catch Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and more of your favorite improv stars on the first episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_1
tv.gsn.com Catch Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and more of your favorite improv stars on the first episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 15 Apr 2011
- views: 376757
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 31
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:32
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Jeff and Brad bring in the flavor of Jamaica, and Colin lets his wolverine loose!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_31
gsntv.com Jeff and Brad bring in the flavor of Jamaica, and Colin lets his wolverine loose!
- published: 03 Feb 2012
- views: 73529
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 2
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:47
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Ryan and Colin perform a prostate exam, and Charlie Sheen stops by to do an improv game with the cast!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_2
Ryan and Colin perform a prostate exam, and Charlie Sheen stops by to do an improv game with the cast!
- published: 13 Sep 2011
- views: 545335
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 8
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:07
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Jeff and Jonathan give a divorce lawyer some love, and Chip and Greg ready their store window for the holiday season.
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_8
gsntv.com Jeff and Jonathan give a divorce lawyer some love, and Chip and Greg ready their store window for the holiday season.
- published: 24 Jan 2012
- views: 83802
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 33
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:02
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
tv.gsn.com Drew hones his skills as a pole dancer and then becomes a member of "The White Man Group".
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_33
tv.gsn.com Drew hones his skills as a pole dancer and then becomes a member of "The White Man Group".
- published: 21 Sep 2011
- views: 133979
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 34
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:02
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Audience member Christie gets a dreamy doo-wop love song from Chip, Brad, and Jeff, and Drew and Kathy go on a first date.
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_34
Audience member Christie gets a dreamy doo-wop love song from Chip, Brad, and Jeff, and Drew and Kathy go on a first date.
- published: 22 Sep 2011
- views: 116695
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 5
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:02
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Will Drew's aerobics center help Heather's family problems? Will Ryan and Jeff successfully reverse their rear-ending scenario? The only place you'll find answers is in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_5
gsntv.com Will Drew's aerobics center help Heather's family problems? Will Ryan and Jeff successfully reverse their rear-ending scenario? The only place you'll find answers is in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 96838
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 35
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:02
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Drew and Kathy do some laundry and Jeff comes to Ryan for the gold in another fantastic episodes of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_35
Drew and Kathy do some laundry and Jeff comes to Ryan for the gold in another fantastic episodes of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 15 Sep 2011
- views: 123999
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 27
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:57
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Jeff finds Ryan's hidden shoe collection, and Jonathan takes Drew to the haunted 15th floor!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_27
gsntv.com Jeff finds Ryan's hidden shoe collection, and Jonathan takes Drew to the haunted 15th floor!
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 67937
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 15
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:02
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Greg helps Ryan work on his race car, and Jonathan gets a foot massage on stage!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_15
gsntv.com Greg helps Ryan work on his race car, and Jonathan gets a foot massage on stage!
- published: 27 Jan 2012
- views: 73939
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 26
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:52
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Chickens will be slapped, twenties will be tipped, and humans will be stacked on top of each other. It's what Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza is all about!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_26
gsntv.com Chickens will be slapped, twenties will be tipped, and humans will be stacked on top of each other. It's what Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza is all about!
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 63380
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 29
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:02
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Mr. Ed, Keanu Reeves, Neil Patrick Harris Sr. and Corky the 30s newsie assemble for a game of Question This. It's the kind of combo you'll only find on Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_29
gsntv.com Mr. Ed, Keanu Reeves, Neil Patrick Harris Sr. and Corky the 30s newsie assemble for a game of Question This. It's the kind of combo you'll only find on Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 68614
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 24
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:22
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Heather interrupts Ryan's medical drafting, and Jeff and Chip soulfully serenade audience member Barbara!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_24
gsntv.com Heather interrupts Ryan's medical drafting, and Jeff and Chip soulfully serenade audience member Barbara!
- published: 01 Feb 2012
- views: 70208
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 6
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:02
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Take a stroll past Chief Giant Nose and through the House of Pasties by checking out this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_6
gsntv.com Take a stroll past Chief Giant Nose and through the House of Pasties by checking out this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 92497
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 36
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:32
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Watch a walrus give birth and learn about the literacy of kangaroos in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_36
Watch a walrus give birth and learn about the literacy of kangaroos in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 13 Sep 2011
- views: 92199
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 37
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:52
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
tv.gsn.com Ryan goes yacht shopping, and audience member Debbie is serenaded with a vivacious broadway tune!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_37
tv.gsn.com Ryan goes yacht shopping, and audience member Debbie is serenaded with a vivacious broadway tune!
- published: 12 Sep 2011
- views: 92497
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 3
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:52
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Drew and Kathy argue over food stamps, and Ryan and Jeff duel with rival garbage men. Tune in to catch the rest of the hilarity on the third episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_3
gsntv.com Drew and Kathy argue over food stamps, and Ryan and Jeff duel with rival garbage men. Tune in to catch the rest of the hilarity on the third episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 119788
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 38
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:52
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
tv.gsn.com Kathy and Jeff hop on a roller coaster and Ryan and Greg try on bikinis together in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_38
tv.gsn.com Kathy and Jeff hop on a roller coaster and Ryan and Greg try on bikinis together in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 12 Sep 2011
- views: 69080
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 11
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:52
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com episode features Drew as a rapping woodland beast and Jonathan and Chip as Jorge the Eiffel Tower tour guide. Need we say more?
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_11
gsntv.com episode features Drew as a rapping woodland beast and Jonathan and Chip as Jorge the Eiffel Tower tour guide. Need we say more?
- published: 26 Jan 2012
- views: 99169
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 21
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:02
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com "Totally Partaaaay!" Get down with Drew and the gang on another fantastic episode of Improv-A-Ganza!
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gsntv.com "Totally Partaaaay!" Get down with Drew and the gang on another fantastic episode of Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 31 Jan 2012
- views: 80506
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 10
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:42
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Ryan thinks back to his stripper days, and Drew and Sean take part in Improv's most dangerous game.
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gsntv.com Ryan thinks back to his stripper days, and Drew and Sean take part in Improv's most dangerous game.
- published: 24 Jan 2012
- views: 72002
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 4
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 21:02
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Drew helps Ryan do some stone carving, and audience member Michelle gets a sweet serenade from Jonathan and Wayne.
http://wn.com/Drew_Carey's_Improv-A-Ganza_Episode_4
gsntv.com Drew helps Ryan do some stone carving, and audience member Michelle gets a sweet serenade from Jonathan and Wayne.
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 86835
- author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 18
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 20:02
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
gsntv.com Grab some cowaoki and put on your lederhosen- it's time for another episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
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gsntv.com Grab some cowaoki and put on your lederhosen- it's time for another episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 28 Jan 2012
- views: 127345
- author: GSNVideos
20:32
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 1
tv.gsn.com Catch Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and more of your favorite improv ...
published: 15 Apr 2011
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 1
tv.gsn.com Catch Drew Carey, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, and more of your favorite improv stars on the first episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 15 Apr 2011
- views: 376757
- author: GSNVideos
20:32
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 31
gsntv.com Jeff and Brad bring in the flavor of Jamaica, and Colin lets his wolverine loose...
published: 03 Feb 2012
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 31
gsntv.com Jeff and Brad bring in the flavor of Jamaica, and Colin lets his wolverine loose!
- published: 03 Feb 2012
- views: 73529
- author: GSNVideos
20:47
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 2
Ryan and Colin perform a prostate exam, and Charlie Sheen stops by to do an improv game wi...
published: 13 Sep 2011
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 2
Ryan and Colin perform a prostate exam, and Charlie Sheen stops by to do an improv game with the cast!
- published: 13 Sep 2011
- views: 545335
- author: GSNVideos
20:07
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 8
gsntv.com Jeff and Jonathan give a divorce lawyer some love, and Chip and Greg ready their...
published: 24 Jan 2012
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 8
gsntv.com Jeff and Jonathan give a divorce lawyer some love, and Chip and Greg ready their store window for the holiday season.
- published: 24 Jan 2012
- views: 83802
- author: GSNVideos
20:02
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 33
tv.gsn.com Drew hones his skills as a pole dancer and then becomes a member of "The White ...
published: 21 Sep 2011
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 33
tv.gsn.com Drew hones his skills as a pole dancer and then becomes a member of "The White Man Group".
- published: 21 Sep 2011
- views: 133979
- author: GSNVideos
20:02
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 34
Audience member Christie gets a dreamy doo-wop love song from Chip, Brad, and Jeff, and Dr...
published: 22 Sep 2011
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 34
Audience member Christie gets a dreamy doo-wop love song from Chip, Brad, and Jeff, and Drew and Kathy go on a first date.
- published: 22 Sep 2011
- views: 116695
- author: GSNVideos
21:02
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 5
gsntv.com Will Drew's aerobics center help Heather's family problems? Will Ryan and Jeff s...
published: 21 Jan 2012
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 5
gsntv.com Will Drew's aerobics center help Heather's family problems? Will Ryan and Jeff successfully reverse their rear-ending scenario? The only place you'll find answers is in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 96838
- author: GSNVideos
21:02
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 35
Drew and Kathy do some laundry and Jeff comes to Ryan for the gold in another fantastic ep...
published: 15 Sep 2011
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 35
Drew and Kathy do some laundry and Jeff comes to Ryan for the gold in another fantastic episodes of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 15 Sep 2011
- views: 123999
- author: GSNVideos
20:57
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 27
gsntv.com Jeff finds Ryan's hidden shoe collection, and Jonathan takes Drew to the haunted...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 27
gsntv.com Jeff finds Ryan's hidden shoe collection, and Jonathan takes Drew to the haunted 15th floor!
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 67937
- author: GSNVideos
20:02
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 15
gsntv.com Greg helps Ryan work on his race car, and Jonathan gets a foot massage on stage!...
published: 27 Jan 2012
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 15
gsntv.com Greg helps Ryan work on his race car, and Jonathan gets a foot massage on stage!
- published: 27 Jan 2012
- views: 73939
- author: GSNVideos
20:52
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 26
gsntv.com Chickens will be slapped, twenties will be tipped, and humans will be stacked on...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 26
gsntv.com Chickens will be slapped, twenties will be tipped, and humans will be stacked on top of each other. It's what Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza is all about!
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 63380
- author: GSNVideos
21:02
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 29
gsntv.com Mr. Ed, Keanu Reeves, Neil Patrick Harris Sr. and Corky the 30s newsie assemble ...
published: 02 Feb 2012
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 29
gsntv.com Mr. Ed, Keanu Reeves, Neil Patrick Harris Sr. and Corky the 30s newsie assemble for a game of Question This. It's the kind of combo you'll only find on Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 02 Feb 2012
- views: 68614
- author: GSNVideos
20:22
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 24
gsntv.com Heather interrupts Ryan's medical drafting, and Jeff and Chip soulfully serenade...
published: 01 Feb 2012
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 24
gsntv.com Heather interrupts Ryan's medical drafting, and Jeff and Chip soulfully serenade audience member Barbara!
- published: 01 Feb 2012
- views: 70208
- author: GSNVideos
21:02
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 6
gsntv.com Take a stroll past Chief Giant Nose and through the House of Pasties by checking...
published: 21 Jan 2012
author: GSNVideos
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 6
gsntv.com Take a stroll past Chief Giant Nose and through the House of Pasties by checking out this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 92497
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Dogs in Cars
Dogs in cars doing what they love to do.
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published: 06 Dec 2011
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Dogs in Cars
Dogs in cars doing what they love to do.
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"Anne With An E" and "Heaven's Gonna Happen Now"
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4:44
"Take Your Medicine" by Transfer | Official Music Video
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Silver Telli - Highest Honor in TV Programs, Segments, or Pro...
published: 15 Aug 2011
author: Nader Husseini
"Take Your Medicine" by Transfer | Official Music Video
http://www.radiumreelfx.com
Silver Telli - Highest Honor in TV Programs, Segments, or Promotional Pieces - Art Direction | 2012 Telly Awards
Silver Telly - Highest Honor in Non-Broadcast Productions - Art Direction | 2012 Telly Awards
Bronze Telli - Non-Broadcast Productions - Music/Concert | 2012 Telly Awards
Bronze Telli - TV Programs, Segments, or Promotional Pieces - Music Video | 2012 Telly Awards
Awarded Platinum Remi for Best Rock Music Video | 2011 Houston WorldFest
Awarded Best Special FX & Animation in a Music Video | 2011 FirstGlance Film Fest Philadelphia
Awarded Best Animation in a Music Video | 2011 DC World Music & Independent Film Festival
Awarded Most Creative Music Video | 2011 DC World Music & Independent Film Festival
Nominated in four categories at the DC World Music & Independent Film Festival: Best In Animation, Best Rock Music Video, Most Creative Video and Best Director.
Featured on Motionographer, Stash 84, The Tripatorium, Awsome Robo
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11th Annual AniFest in the Czech Republic
4th Annual SIGGRAPH Asia; Electronic Theater
38th Annual SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Fest
The San Francisco International Festival of Short Films
7th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival
14th Annual FirstGlance Film Fest Philadelphia
Chicago International Movies & Music Fest
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5th Annual Dallas International Film Festival
44th Annual International WorldFest Film Festival Houston
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“Take Your Medicine” is the second single off Transfer’s debut album,“Future Selves,” slated for a September 19th release on Cool Green Recordings/Mascot Label Group. The video is Directed by Nader Husseini and produced/edited by Amy Grieshaber. Radium/Reel FX turnkeyed the spot.
The team used After Effects as the main compositing software. They combined the 2D drawings and paintings and 3D animation and digital effects into a single space in order to create a highly textured look. In addition to lighting and compositing the CG characters and props in Maya, the team used Maya Toon, Maya Hair and Maya nCloth, manipulating and merging techniques not typically used in the studio’s CG pipeline. Pre-compositing 3D components in Nuke ensured an efficient workflow. These files were also color-corrected and incorporated into the 2D environments in After Effects. Using Maya Paint FX in conjunction with cloth simulations and digital effects added to the video’s unique style.
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Director/
Nader Husseini
Producer, Editor/
Amy Grieshaber
Executive Creative Director/
Dale Carman
Concept Artists/
Nader Husseini
Yashar Tahtolkassai
Motion Designers/
Nader Husseini
Byron Slaybaugh
Christopher Vela
Additional Design/
Erin McGuire
Dustin D'Arnault
Production Coordinator/ Taylor Lee Williams
Production Assistant/ Meghan A. Cole
Technical Director, Rigging Supervisor, Cloth Artist/
Kyle Wood
Modeling/
Nathan Smithson
Brandon Stoker
Additional Modeling/
Seth Olson
Alison Donato
Texturing Supervisor, Lighting, Compositing Supervisor/
Brandon Stoker
Texturing, Lighting/
Brandon Stoker, Lauren Davis, Seth Olson,
Chris Browne, Connon Carey, Julie Terrell, Hollan Holmes
Particle Effects, Layout/
Joseph P. Johnston, Mark Thielen
Animation Supervisor/
Ernesto Bottger
Animators/
Jeff Weidner, Randy Hayes, Trevor Young, Eric Drobile,
Ray Chase, Drew Winey, Jimm Pegan, Matt Kummer, Monica Aston
Compositors/
Dag Ivarsoy, Jared Brower
Sound Designers/
Frank Pittenger, TJ Callaway, Matt Pittman
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Mark Thielen
Live Action Producer/
Laura Wallgren
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James Boisvenue
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Julio Quintana
Special Thanks To/
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3:42
tUnE-yArDs My Country
CREDITS:
Director: Mimi Cave
Director of Photography: Joe Picard (joepicard.com)
Producer:...
published: 07 Mar 2012
author: mimi cave
tUnE-yArDs My Country
CREDITS:
Director: Mimi Cave
Director of Photography: Joe Picard (joepicard.com)
Producer: Michael MacDonald
Assistant Director: Micah Gendron
Production Design: Miriam Lakes, Adrian Elliot
Wardrobe: Christina Molcillo, Samantha Williams
Makeup: Alicia Campbell
Hair: Lorenzo Diaz
Gaffer: Drew Nelson
Assistant Camera: Jeremy Wong
2nd AC: Michael Lindemuth
Art Dept: Cory Brown, Hillary Andujar, Jill Grant, Cara Kritikos, Nina Topinko
Special Effects: Ryan Paulger
Media Manager: Samantha Bennett
Editor: Adrian Elliot
Colorist: Carey Burens
Grip & Electric: Sean Servis, Kiva Knight, Chris Fountain, Chuy Valadez, Matt Stouppe
Production Coordinator: Michael Steiner
Production Assistants: Clarissa Kritter, Brandy Troxler
Talent: Brightworks SF, SF Rock Project
Special Thanks: Terri Timely, Autofuss, SPY Post
2:27
Suicide Prevention - Drew Carey
Drew suffered from depression at an early age and attempted suicide while in high school. ...
published: 19 Jan 2011
author: 3rd Infantry Division
Suicide Prevention - Drew Carey
Drew suffered from depression at an early age and attempted suicide while in high school. He got help and changed his attitude to always having a positive approach to things. This has helped him to develop a successful career in comedy and as the host of "The Price is Right."
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20:32
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 36
Watch a walrus give birth and learn about the literacy of kangaroos in this episode of Dre...
published: 13 Sep 2011
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Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 36
Watch a walrus give birth and learn about the literacy of kangaroos in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 13 Sep 2011
- views: 92199
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20:52
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 37
tv.gsn.com Ryan goes yacht shopping, and audience member Debbie is serenaded with a vivaci...
published: 12 Sep 2011
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Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 37
tv.gsn.com Ryan goes yacht shopping, and audience member Debbie is serenaded with a vivacious broadway tune!
- published: 12 Sep 2011
- views: 92497
- author: GSNVideos
20:52
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 3
gsntv.com Drew and Kathy argue over food stamps, and Ryan and Jeff duel with rival garbage...
published: 21 Jan 2012
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Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza Episode 3
gsntv.com Drew and Kathy argue over food stamps, and Ryan and Jeff duel with rival garbage men. Tune in to catch the rest of the hilarity on the third episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 119788
- author: GSNVideos
20:52
Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 38
tv.gsn.com Kathy and Jeff hop on a roller coaster and Ryan and Greg try on bikinis togethe...
published: 12 Sep 2011
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Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza - Episode 38
tv.gsn.com Kathy and Jeff hop on a roller coaster and Ryan and Greg try on bikinis together in this episode of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza!
- published: 12 Sep 2011
- views: 69080
- author: GSNVideos
photo: AP / Altaf Qadri
29 Dec 2012
Police in India have sealed off much of the capital, Delhi, and issued an appeal for calm after the death of a woman who was gang-raped in the city. The 23-year old woman, who has not been identified, died early on Saturday at a hospital in Singapore, where she had been taken for specialist treatment. Her body is to be flown back to India for burial ... Gatherings of more than five people have been banned in the city centre ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)
photo: AP / New York City Police Department
30 Dec 2012
A woman who told police she shoved a man to his death off a subway platform because she has hated Muslims since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the US and thought he was one was charged on Saturday with murder as a hate crime, prosecutors said ... Menendez, 31, was awaiting arraignment on the charge on Saturday evening, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said. She faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted ... On Dec ... ....(size: 3.0Kb)
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28 Dec 2012
The president of Central African Republic (CAR) has urgently called on France and other foreign powers to help his government fend off rebels who are quickly seizing territory and approaching the capital. Speaking to crowds in Bangui, a city of some 600,000, Francois Bozize on Thursday pleaded with foreign powers to do what they could. He pointed in particular to France, Central African Republic's former colonial ruler ... 516 Share ... News ... ....(size: 19.5Kb)
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30 Dec 2012
London. UN-Arab League envoy to Damascus, Lakhdar Brahimi, has said that a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Syria seemed far away, adding that the country risked being slithering into ‘hell’ ... (ANI). For Zee News’s Updates, follow us on Twitter , Facebook, Google+, Pinterest. First Published ... ....(size: 1.7Kb)
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28 Dec 2012
Galaxy Note 2 vs. iPhone 5. Do The Companies Have Their Game Plans Right?. Posted by Jay099 on December 28, 2012 02.15 pm 0. via. Mountain View at California seems to be a busy center now. Google is stepping up the gas on the march towards a holistic environment and experience for the consumers ... My Blog . My FB Page ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
The Examiner
30 Dec 2012
Last time it was mentioned that Steve Doucette is a very funny man. He was formerly in a comedy team at the Funny Bone. Drew Carey helped the team write jokes and they opened for Drew. This certainly explains why we laughed so very much during our interview. Steve was gracious enough to share many things about the making of Yellow Rock. “The opening scene in Yellow Rock has a cowboy riding down a steep mountain extremely fast ... Wolves ... ... ... ....(size: 3.3Kb)
noodls
28 Dec 2012
The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of keeping Adrian Hanauer on board as the GM, but to owner Drew Carey, who was the mastermind within the organization to bring the democracy element into Major League Soccer, that's exactly how it should be when things are going well with the club. And while it was the first GM vote, the inclusion of ......(size: 5.0Kb)
LA Weekly
27 Dec 2012
Has a sketch group made it when their monthly show attracts such guest hosts as Fred Williard, Jerry O'Connell and Andy Richter? How about when its alumni include James Adomian, Josh Fadem and recent SNL castmember Abby Elliott? Or is it when improv purveyor Drew Carey presents a summer tour...the Denver date of which gets protested by the Westboro ......(size: 2.3Kb)
Detroit news
22 Dec 2012
By Melody Baetens and Jocelynn Brown The Detroit News Comments. Stefan Karl and Seth Bazacas star in How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical. (Paparazzi by Appointment). The Big Three 1. "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical" at Detroit Opera House ... 1 p.m. today, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m ... Sun ... 30) ... 2 ... Sun ... Dyer has appeared on "The Bob and Tom Show" and in opening acts for comedians Drew Carey, Lewis Black and Kathleen Madigan ... ....(size: 13.1Kb)
noodls
21 Dec 2012
But I do know that Joe Roth and myself and Paul Allen and Drew Carey take our roles as stewards of this franchise very seriously ... Carey followed the LA Galaxy prior to joining the ownership group with the Sounders FC and brought with him some unique ideas that have made the Seattle club stand alone among American professional teams ... They go through all this effort and sacrifice to support this business, Carey said....(size: 5.4Kb)
Signon San Diego
20 Dec 2012
Dec. 23. Actor Frederic Forrest ("Lonesome Dove") is 76. Actor James Stacy ("Lancer") is 76. Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna) is 72. Drummer Ron Bushy of Iron Butterfly is 71. Actor-comedian Harry Shearer ("The Simpsons") is 69. Actress Susan Lucci ("All My Children") is 66 ... Dec. 24 ... Actor Diedrich Bader ("The Drew Carey Show") is 46. Singer Ricky Martin is 41 ... Dec ... Actor Ian Gomez ("Felicity," "The Drew Carey Show") is 48....(size: 3.9Kb)
Yahoo Daily News
20 Dec 2012
In only a limited launch the Kindle book "Get Down to 150" has already appeared on 2 bestseller lists. Austin, Texas (PRWEB) December 20, 2012 Michelle Obama's "Let’s Move" program is a great first step and shines a bright light on an overwhelming problem ... "Fat and getting fatter. U.S. obesity rates to soar by 2030") ... Drew Carey, the comedian, host of 'The Price Is Right' and actor, said "I feel like I'm aging in reverse." ... Clint Evans ... ....(size: 3.3Kb)
noodls
18 Dec 2012
While Hanauer watches in a box with technical director Chris Henderson, another owner, Drew Carey is a few suites away experiencing the same emotional roller coaster. Like the mild-mannered Hanauer, Carey is a different person on gameday than the comedian who rose to success on the stand-up circuit and eventually got his own sitcom and hosted his own improv show before getting the hosting gig on The Price Is Right....(size: 6.2Kb)
noodls
15 Dec 2012
(Source ... READ ... During a question-and-answer session at Thursday's End-of-Year Business Meeting, Sounders majority owner Joe Roth even suggested that he and fellow owners Drew Carey and Hanauer would discuss the possibility of selling shares of the team to the public. Carey, who was the driving force behind the election, also made it clear that this kind of voting was here to stay. "Right now, the owners are good," Carey told the crowd....(size: 3.8Kb)
San Francisco Chronicle
15 Dec 2012
Sketchfest runs Jan. 24 to Feb. 10 ... Among the comics and actors visiting are Patton Oswalt, John Hodgman, Janeane Garofalo, Drew Carey, Reggie Watts, Jennifer Coolidge and Fred Willard. Among the highlights. Jeff Garlin, Rob Corddry and Jenny Slate are featured in the improvised storytelling show "Combo Platter" (Feb. 7) ... 8) ... 9) ... 31)....(size: 1.5Kb)
noodls
15 Dec 2012
(Source. Seattle Sounders FC). Posted by.Matt Gaschk. 12/14/2012. The results of the GM Vote were announced but that wasn't the only headline to be taken from a busy Thursday evening ... However, that wasn't the only interesting moment of the night, as owners Joe Roth, Drew Carey and Hanauer took the stage along with club president Peter McLoughlin and representatives from the Sounders FC Alliance Council ... distributed by ... (noodl....(size: 5.2Kb)
Seattle Times
14 Dec 2012
In the end, it wasn't even close. Hanauer earned support from 96 percent of the 13,775 votes cast by season-ticket holders and Alliance members, part-owner Drew Carey announced at Thursday's end-of-the-year business meeting ... "Honestly, I'm humbled ... ... It is believed to be the first of its kind in American professional sports and was inspired by an FC Barcelona model that Carey discovered on a trip to Spain ... Hurtado, Ianni ... NOTE....(size: 3.0Kb)
The Examiner
14 Dec 2012
... Powers," "Shrek"), Bob Newhart ("Elf," "The Bob Newhart Show"), Ben Stiller ("Zoolander"), Lily Tomlin ("9 to 5," Malibu Country"), Keenen Ivory Wayans, Betty White ("Hot in Cleveland," "Off Their Rockers"), Drew Carey, Robert Klein, Steve Martin ("The Jerk"), Martin Mull and Robert Schimmel....(size: 1.5Kb)
| Drew Carey | |
|---|---|
 Carey in November 2008 |
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| Birth name | Drew Allison Carey |
| Born | (1958-05-23) May 23, 1958 (age 54) Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up, television, film |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Genres | Improvisational comedy |
| Notable works and roles | The Drew Carey Show Drew Carey's Green Screen Show Host of: Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Price Is Right Power of 10 Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza |
| Website | http://www.drewfromtv.blogspot.com |
Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, sports executive, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show, and serving as host of the U.S. version of the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, both of which aired on ABC.
Carey has appeared in several films, television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game. As of 2012, he hosts the television game show The Price Is Right. He is interested in a variety of sports, has worked as a photographer at U.S. National Team soccer games, is a minority owner of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC and a member of the WWE Hall of Fame. Carey has written an autobiography, Dirty Jokes And Beer: Stories Of The Unrefined, detailing his early life and television career.
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Early life[link]
Carey was the youngest of Lewis and Beulah Carey's three sons and raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio.[1] When he was eight years old, his father died from a brain tumor.[2][3] According to his autobiography, he was born with six toes on his right foot and he played the cornet and trumpet in the marching band of James Ford Rhodes High School, from which he graduated in 1975.[4] Drew is of Scottish heritage from both parents.[citation needed]
He continued on to college at Kent State University (KSU) and was expelled twice for poor academic performance. He left KSU after three years, but not before becoming a member of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. After leaving the university, Carey enlisted into the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1980 and served for six years.[1] He relocated to Las Vegas for a few months in 1982, and for a short time worked as a bank teller and a waiter at Denny's.[1][3]
Stand-up career[link]
In 1985, he began his comedy career by following up on a suggestion by David Lawrence (a disc jockey friend who had been paying Drew to write jokes for David's radio show in Cleveland) to go to the library and borrow books on how to write jokes.[5][6] The following year, after winning an open-microphone contest, he became Master of Ceremonies at the Cleveland Comedy Club.[2] He performed at multiple comedy clubs over the next few years in both Cleveland and Los Angeles. He was first brought to the national eye as a comedian when he competed in the 1988 Star Search.[7] Carey was working as a stand-up comedian when he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in November 1991.[8] His performance that night impressed Carson, who invited Carey to the couch next to his desk; this was considered a rare honor for any comedian.[5][9] In that same year, Carey joined the 14th Annual Young Comedians Special on HBO and made his first appearance on Late Night with David Letterman.[10] In 1994, Carey wrote his own stand-up comedy special which aired on Showtime, entitled Drew Carey: Human Cartoon, for which he won a CableACE Award for Best Writing.[11]
Acting career[link]
Early roles[link]
Following on the success of his early stand-up career, he subsequently appeared in a number of supporting roles on television shows, during which he developed the character of a hapless middle-class bachelor. In 1993, Carey had a small role in the film Coneheads as a taxi passenger. Turning his attention to television, in 1994, Carey co-starred with John Caponera in The Good Life, a short-lived sitcom that aired on NBC.[12] After the show's cancellation, Carey joined up with writer Bruce Helford (who was also a writer for The Good Life), who gave Carey a job as a consultant for the television show Someone Like Me.[13]
[edit] The Drew Carey Show
Main article: The Drew Carey Show
After their stint on Someone Like Me, Carey and Helford developed and produced the storyline for The Drew Carey Show. The sitcom revolved around a fictionalized version of Carey, as he took on the stresses of life and work with his group of childhood friends. The show premiered on September 13, 1995 on ABC. In his autobiography, Carey revealed his frustration with having to deal with censors and being unable to employ the off-color humor common in his stand-up routines.[4] Carey initially earned $60,000 per episode in the first seasons, then renegotiated for $300,000.[14] By the final season, he was earning $750,000 per episode.[15] The show had high ratings for its first few seasons, but declining ratings and increasing production costs (around $3 million per episode) precipitated its cancellation.[15][16] The program had a total of 233 episodes over its nine-year run and Carey was one of four actors to appear in every episode. The show starred (in order of episode appearances) Carey, Diedrich Bader, Kathy Kinney, Ryan Stiles (all in every episode); Craig Ferguson (starring role in seasons 2-8 and guest appearances in 9); Christa Miller (seasons 1-7); and Ian Gomez (semi-regular from seasons 1-9) and John Carroll Lynch (semi-regular from seasons 3/4-9).
Improv television[link]
Main article: Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series)
While still starring in The Drew Carey Show, in 1998 Carey began hosting the American version of the improvisational comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He would announce the improv guests, direct the games, and then would usually involve himself in the final game of the episode. The show ran for a total of 220 episodes until the show's cancellation in 2006. In 1998, the New York Friars' Club made Carey the newest inductee of the group's Comedy Central Roast. His friend Ryan Stiles (who costarred in The Drew Carey Show and Whose Line Is It Anyway?) served as the roastmaster.[17] Carey's income from Whose Line Is It Anyway? and The Drew Carey Show led to his inclusion on the Forbes list of highest-paid entertainers of 1998, at 24th with $45.5 million.[18]
For the WB's 2004-2005 prime time schedule, Carey co-produced and starred in Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, a spin-off of Whose Line Is It Anyway?.[19] It was canceled by the WB, but picked up shortly afterward by Comedy Central.[20] The show's premise relied on the use of a green screen for all of the actors' improv interactions. Animation on the screen was inserted during post-production.
On November 18, 2010, the Game Show Network announced that Drew Carey would host a new improv show in primetime, called Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza. The show is filmed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada and first aired on April 11, 2011.[21] The show takes on the premise of Whose Line? and Drew Carey's Green Screen Show in that it features many of the same performers from both shows and they do improv based on audience-provided suggestions.
Improv All-Stars[link]
Carey was one of the founders of the Improv All-Stars, a group of eleven actors who perform in unscripted skits.[22] The group joined Carey in all three of his improv shows, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, and Drew Carey's Improv-a-ganza and some members had major roles or guest starred on The Drew Carey Show.[23] The Improv All-Stars travel on comedy tours, performing at comedy clubs throughout the United States.
Game show host[link]
[edit] Power of 10
Main article: Power of 10
Beginning in 2007, Carey began hosting game shows, beginning with his April selection as host of the CBS game show pilot Power of 10. The show ran from August 7, 2007 to April 7, 2008 and aired twice weekly during the late summer and early fall. Each game featured contestants predicting how a cross-section of Americans responded to questions covering a wide variety of topics in polls conducted by CBS.[24]
[edit] The Price Is Right
Main article: The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)
After taping the pilot episode for Power of 10, Carey was contacted by CBS about replacing the retiring Bob Barker at The Price Is Right. After initially turning down the offer, Carey announced on Late Show with David Letterman that he would succeed Barker as host of the program beginning in the fall of 2007.[25] His first episode of The Price Is Right was taped on August 15, and his shows began airing on October 15. In response to replacing Barker as host of the game show, Carey stated "You can't replace Bob Barker. I don't compare myself to anybody... It's only about what you're doing and supposed to do, and I feel like I'm supposed to be doing this."[26] When Carey began hosting, the set, theme music, and show logo were updated. However, Carey kept the old closing line about spaying and neutering that originated with Barker, although his version uses slightly different wording. During Carey's second year as host, he began to write some of the sketches used during the Showcase, which features guest appearances by stars of other CBS programs.
Other roles and appearances[link]
Carey began appearing in commercials for restaurants in the late 1990s in Canada with The Great Root Bear, but his two-year contract with A&W Food Services of Canada was cut short in November 1998 after an episode of The Drew Carey Show featured McDonald's. As a result of his dismissal, Carey sued A&W for compensation.[27]
Disney's Hollywood Studios (then "Disney-MGM Studios"), part of Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, debuted a 12-minute attraction in 1999 titled Sounds Dangerous!.[28] In the show, a camera follows Carey through a day as an undercover detective. When his video camera fails, the audience is left in complete darkness wearing earphones, following his adventure through sound cues. The attraction is presently[when?] running on a limited "seasonal" schedule.
File:Drew Carey TheSims.jpg
Drew Carey featured in The Sims
In 2000, Carey was given a cameo appearance in the House Party expansion pack of the computer game The Sims.[29] To make him appear, the characters in the game must throw a successful party, which causes Carey to arrive in a limo and join the festivities. Carey is a fan of The Sims series and during one April Fool's episode of The Drew Carey Show, a scene takes place completely within The Sims.[29][30] Carey made several other cameo appearances in music videos, including "Weird Al" Yankovic's "It's All About the Pentiums"[31] and Fountains of Wayne's 2004 video for "Mexican Wine", giving an introduction to the video as if it were on a stage.[32]
Although primarily known for his television work, Carey has done limited film work, with his first appearance in 1993's Coneheads. His next film was the 2000 television film, Geppetto that debuted on The Wonderful World of Disney. The film, an adaptation of Pinocchio, included actor Wayne Brady who had joined Carey on his improv shows.[33] Carey took singing lessons to prepare for the role.[3] In 2005, Carey appeared in three films: the animated film Robots, where he provided a voice-over for the character Crank; The Aristocrats where he retold a dirty joke along with other celebrities; and the documentary, Fuck, where he was interviewed.
Carey provided the entertainment for the 2002 Annual White House correspondents' dinner.[10] Once Carey completed his standup routine for the 1,800 guests, President George W. Bush, noting Carey's improv work, made a joke of his own: "Drew? Got any interest in the Middle East?"[34] In 2003, he joined Jamie Kennedy to host the WB's live special Play for a Billion.[35] In September 2003, Carey led a group of comedians, including Blake Clark and The Drew Carey Show's Kathy Kinney, on a comedy tour of Iraq.[36]
On June 8, 2006, Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures debuted on the Travel Channel. In this series, Carey traveled throughout Germany to photograph multiple FIFA World Cup soccer games while he immerses himself in the culture of the towns and states he visits.[37] In early 2008, Carey appeared in Matt Groening's The Simpsons as part of the episode "All About Lisa" as a guest on the Krusty the Clown Show.
Writing[link]
File:Drew Carey Book.jpg
Cover of Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined
Carey has routinely written throughout his career, including developing his stand-up comedy routines in his early stand-up career, and then moving on to assist in writing sitcoms. In 1997, Carey published his autobiography, Dirty Jokes and Beer: Stories of the Unrefined wherein he shared memories of his early childhood and of his father's death when he was eight. He also revealed that he was once molested, had suffered bouts of depression, and had made two suicide attempts by swallowing a large amount of sleeping pills.[4] The book discusses his college fraternity years while attending Kent State University, and his professional career up to that time. The book featured large amounts of profanity and, as the title suggests, includes multiple dirty jokes (there is one at the start of each chapter) and references to beer. The book was featured on The New York Times bestseller list for three months.[38]
Personal life[link]
He adopted his crew cut hair style while serving in the United States Marine Corps. Carey has had refractive surgery to correct his vision and therefore did not really require glasses (any glasses he wore in public were merely props to help the audience recognize him).[39] However, while this was true for several years, on the May 17, 2006 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! he revealed that when he turned 40, he actually developed a need for bifocals. Carey currently[when?] lives in Los Angeles and New York City.[40]
On October 9, 2007 Carey proposed to Nicole Jaracz.[41] In January 2012, it was reported that Carey and Jaracz had called off their engagement.[42] She has appeared on The Price Is Right several times.[citation needed]
After suffering chest pains while filming The Drew Carey Show in August 2001, Carey went to the hospital where he underwent a coronary angioplasty.[43] Although his weight was a comedic topic throughout his sitcom and improv shows, in 2010 he began a diet and exercise plan, resulting in an extensive weight loss and elimination of his type-2 diabetes.[44]
Political views[link]
Carey is an outspoken libertarian.[45][46][47][48] He has expressed his political philosophy in the following terms, "I believe the answers to all the problems we face as a society won't come from Washington, it will come from us. So the way we decide to live our lives and our decisions about what we buy or don't buy are much more important than who we vote for."[49]
Carey has expressed his distaste for the Bush administration's management of the War in Iraq, specifically on the September 15, 2007, episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. He made donations to Ron Paul's presidential campaign for the 2008 election.[50] On the September 26, 2008 episode of The Late Late Show, Carey defined "libertarian" to host Craig Ferguson as "a conservative who still gets high."[51]
Carey has spoken about his various political beliefs in several interviews and in 1998, he led a "smoke-in" in defiance of California's newly passed no-smoking ordinance inside bars and restaurants.[52] Carey has hosted a series of mini-documentaries called The Drew Carey Project on Reason.tv, an online project of Reason Foundation, a libertarian think tank.[53] The first episode, "Gridlock", addresses private highway ownership and was released on October 15, 2007. Other episodes discuss topics such as eminent domain, urban traffic congestion, and medical marijuana.
Sports involvement[link]
Carey is a devoted fan of the U.S. National Soccer Team, Cleveland Browns, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Cleveland Indians. In 1999, Carey was part of the pregame ceremonies at the first game of the return of the Cleveland Browns, televised on ESPN.[18] Carey attended the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Carey is a minority owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, who began play in Major League Soccer on March 19, 2009. Carey is a fan of FC Barcelona and of the Scottish team Rangers.[54] In 2006 he was a season ticket holder for the Los Angeles Galaxy.[55]
Carey has shown his support for the Indians by throwing the first pitch at an August 12, 2006 game against the Kansas City Royals. He was rewarded by the Cleveland Indians for being "the greatest Indians fan alive" with a personal bobblehead doll made in his likeness that was given to fans. Carey responded to his bobblehead likeness by saying "Bobblehead Day, for me, is as big as getting a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame."[56]
In 2001, Carey was the first television actor to enter World Wrestling Entertainment's 30-man "Royal Rumble" match, which he did to promote an improv comedy pay-per-view at the time. He appeared in a few backstage segments before his brief participation in the match. Upon entering the ring, Carey stood unopposed for more than half a minute, but after the next entrant Kane refused a monetary bribe, Carey eliminated himself from the match by jumping over the top rope and retreated from ringside.[57] On April 2, 2011 Carey was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by Kane.[58]
Carey competed against five other celebrities in the first celebrity edition of the 2003 World Poker Tour. He placed fifth, only beating out actor Jack Black. Carey won $2,000 for his charity.[59]
On May 15, 2011, Carey completed the "Marine Corps Historic Half Marathon" in 1:57:02, then on September 4, 2011, he improved to complete the Disneyland Half Marathon in 1:50:46.
On October 30, 2011, Carey finished the Marine Corps Marathon with a chip time of: 4:37:11 and placed 10149th out of 20940.
Philanthropy[link]
Carey is a supporter of libraries, crediting them for beginning his successful comedy career. On May 2, 2000, in a celebrity edition of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, he selected the Ohio Library Foundation to receive his $500,000 winnings.[60] He later went on to win an additional $32,000 on the second celebrity Millionaire, making him one of the biggest winning contestants on Millionaire who did not win the top prize. Carey also has played on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Cleveland Public Library charity.[61] In June 2007, Carey offered to donate up to $100,000 (in $10,000 increments) to the Mooch Myernick Memorial Fund if anybody could beat him at the video game FIFA Soccer 07 for the Xbox 360. He dared five players from both the U.S. Men's and Women's National Teams to compete against him.[62] Carey ended up donating $100,000 plus $60,000 for losing two games out of the six games he played.[63]
In October 2009, Carey made a bid of $25,000 in a charity auction for the @drew Twitter account. He later increased his offer to $100,000 if the number of followers of his account @DrewFromTV reached 100,000 by the end of the auction.[64] In an interview with CBS News, he announced that he would instead donate $1 million to the charity LIVESTRONG Foundation if his follower count reached one million by December 31, 2009.[65]
Photography[link]
Carey can sometimes be seen on the sidelines of U.S. National Team soccer games as a press photographer.[66] His images are sold via wire services under the pseudonym Brooks Parkenridge.[55] He was at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in the summer of 2006, for his television show Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures.
Awards and honors[link]
- Carey won the Cable Ace Award for Best Writing for his work on Drew Carey: Human Cartoon.[10]
- In 1995, he was named one of the "10 Hottest New Faces of '95" by TV Guide.[1]
- Carey received an honorary DHL from Cleveland State University in 2000.[67]
- He won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Television Performer for his work in The Drew Carey Show, in both 2000 and 2001.[68]
- On February 21, 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[69] His star can be found at 6664 Hollywood Blvd.
- In 2004, he was ranked 84th on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest stand-ups of all time.[70]
- On June 21, 2008 Carey won second place from the Los Angeles Press Club for his feature on medical marijuana in the multimedia package category.[71]
- On June 26, 2011 Carey shared the award for "Best Advocacy Journalism" with Reason.tv Editor Nick Gillespie and Paul Feine at the 53rd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards.[72]
Filmography[link]
Carey has starred in only a few television shows and films, but also has numerous guest star appearances in a variety of sitcoms and comedy shows.
Television work[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | The Torkelsons | Herby Scroggins | Episode "Say Uncle" |
| 1993-1994 | Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (uncredited) | ACME Man | |
| 1994 | The Good Life | Drew Clark | |
| 1994 | The Adventures of Pete & Pete (uncredited) | Veteran | Episode "Grounded for Life" |
| 1995–2004 | The Drew Carey Show | Drew Carey | |
| 1996 | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Herbie Saxe | Episode "Ghosts" |
| 1997 | Home Improvement | Road Kill specialist (Seymour 'Sy' Winterfleffin) | |
| The Weird Al Show | Himself | Episode "The Competition" | |
| Sabrina the Teenage Witch | Episode "To Tell a Mortal" | ||
| 1998–2007 | Whose Line Is It Anyway? | Host | |
| 1999 | King of the Hill | Hal | Episode "Not in My Back-hoe" |
| 2000 | Baby Blues | Himself | Episode "Bizzy Moves In" |
| 2001 | WWE Royal Rumble 2001 | Himself (5th Entrant) | |
| 2004–2005 | Drew Carey's Green Screen Show | Himself | Host/Performer |
| 2006 | Drew Carey's Sporting Adventures | ||
| 2007–2008 | Power of 10 | Host | |
| 2007–present | The Price Is Right | ||
| 2008 | The Simpsons | Episode: "All About Lisa" | |
| 2010 | Community | Ted | Episode: "Accounting for Lawyers" |
| 2011 | Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza | Himself | Host/Performer |
| 2011 | Family Guy | Himself | Host of The Price Is Right |
| 2011 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Himself | |
| 2011 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Himself | 11 November |
Films[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Coneheads | Taxi passenger | |
| 2000 | Geppetto | Mister Geppetto | Made-for-TV movie |
| 2005 | Robots | Crank | Voice role |
| The Aristocrats | Himself | ||
| 2011 | Jack & Jill | Cameo appearance |
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- Drew Carey's WWE Hall of Fame Profile
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| Born | (1962-05-17) May 17, 1962 (age 50) Glasgow, Scotland |
| Medium | Stand-up, television, film, music, books |
| Nationality | Scotland; United States |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Genres | Observational comedy, satire/political satire/news satire |
| Subject(s) | Everyday life, popular culture, self-deprecation, politics |
| Spouse | Anne Hogarth (1983–86) (divorced) Sascha Corwin (1998–2004) (divorced) 1 child Megan Wallace-Cunningham (2008–present) 1 child |
| Notable works and roles | Host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson Nigel Wick on The Drew Carey Show Glaswegian in One Foot in the Grave Gobber in How to Train Your Dragon |
| Website | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson |
Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962[1]) is a Scottish-American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, and producer. He is the host of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, an Emmy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning late-night talk show that airs on CBS. In addition to hosting that program and performing stand-up comedy, Ferguson has written two books: Between the Bridge and the River, a novel, and American on Purpose, a memoir. He became a citizen of the United States in 2008.[2]
Before his career as a late-night television host, Ferguson was best known in the United States for his role as the office boss, Nigel Wick, on The Drew Carey Show from 1996 to 2003. He also wrote and starred in three films, directing one of them.
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Early life[link]
Ferguson was born in the Stobhill Hospital in the Springburn district of Glasgow, Scotland to Robert and Janet Ferguson, and raised in nearby Cumbernauld, growing up "chubby and bullied".[3][4] When he was six months old, he and his family moved from their Springburn apartment to a council house in Cumbernauld. They lived there as Glasgow was re-housing many people following damage to the city from World War II.[4] Ferguson attended Muirfield Primary School and Cumbernauld High School.[5] At age sixteen, Ferguson dropped out of Cumbernauld High School and began an apprenticeship to be an electronics technician at a local factory of American company Burroughs Corporation.[6]
His first visit to the United States was as a teenager to visit an uncle who lived on Long Island, near New York City.[7] When he moved to New York City in 1983, he worked in construction in Harlem.[8][9] Ferguson later became a bouncer at a nightclub, Save the Robots.[10]
Career[link]
British career[link]
Ferguson's experience in entertainment began as a drummer in a rock band called Exposure. He then joined a punk band called The Bastards from Hell.[11] The band, later renamed "Dreamboys", and fronted by vocalist Peter Capaldi, performed regularly in Glasgow from 1980 to 1982.[12] Ferguson credits Capaldi for inspiring him to try comedy.[3]
After a nerve-wrecking, knee-knocking first appearance, he decided to create a character that was a "parody of all the über-patriotic native folk singers who seemed to infect every public performance in Scotland."[3] The character, "Bing Hitler" (actually coined by Capaldi as Ferguson started with the monogram of "Nico Fulton" but admittedly later stole the name for his "own nefarious ends"),[12] premiered in Glasgow, and subsequently became a hit at the 1986 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. A recording of his stage act as Bing Hitler was made at Glasgow's Tron Theatre and released in the 1980s;[13] a Bing Hitler monologue ("A Lecture for Burns Night") appears on the compilation cassette Honey at the Core.
Ferguson's first television appearance was as Confidence on BBC sitcom Red Dwarf during the episode "Confidence and Paranoia".
Ferguson made his starring television debut in The Craig Ferguson Show, a one-off comedy pilot for Granada Television, which co-starred Paul Whitehouse and Helen Atkinson-Wood.[14] This was broadcast throughout the UK on 4 March 1990, but was not made into a full series.
He has also found success in musical theatre. Beginning in 1991, he appeared on stage as Brad Majors in the London production of The Rocky Horror Show, alongside Anthony Head, who was playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter at the time.[citation needed] In 1994, Ferguson played Father MacLean in the highly controversial production of Bad Boy Johnny and the Prophets of Doom at the Union Chapel in London. The same year, he appeared again at the Edinburgh Fringe, as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, opposite Gerard Kelly as Felix and Kate Anthony as Gwendolin Pidgeon, who is now much better known as Aunty Pam in Coronation Street; the play, which was relocated to 1990s Glasgow, later toured Scotland.[15]
After enjoying success at the Edinburgh Festival, Ferguson appeared on Red Dwarf, STV's Hogmanay Show,[16] his own show 2000 Not Out, and the 1993 One Foot in the Grave Christmas special One Foot in the Algarve.
In 1993, Ferguson presented his own series on Scottish archaeology for Scottish Television entitled Dirt Detective.[17] He travelled throughout the country examining archaeological history, including Skara Brae and Paisley Abbey.
U.S. career[link]
After cancellation of his show The Ferguson Theory, Ferguson moved to Los Angeles in 1994. His first U.S. role was as baker Logan McDonough on the short-lived 1995 ABC comedy Maybe This Time, which starred Betty White and Marie Osmond.
His breakthrough in the U.S. came when he was cast on The Drew Carey Show as the title character's boss, Mr. Wick, a role that he played from 1996 to 2003. He played the role with an over-the-top posh English accent "to make up for generations of English actors doing crap Scottish accents." In his comedy special "A Wee Bit O' Revolution", he specifically called out James Doohan's portrayal of Montgomery Scott on Star Trek as the foundation of his "revenge". (At the end of one episode, though, Ferguson broke the fourth wall and began talking to the audience at home in his regular Scottish accent.) His character was memorable for his unique methods of laying employees off, almost always "firing Johnson", the most common last name of the to-be-fired workers.[18] Even after leaving the show in 2003, he remained a recurring character on the series for the last two seasons, and was part of the 2-part series finale in 2004.
During production of The Drew Carey Show, Ferguson devoted his off-time as a cast member to writing, working in his trailer on set in-between shooting his scenes. He wrote and starred in three films: The Big Tease, Saving Grace, and I'll Be There, which he also directed and for which he won the Audience Award for Best Film at the Aspen, Dallas and Valencia film festivals. He was named Best New Director at the Napa Valley Film Festival. These were among other scripts that, "... in the great tradition of the movie business, about half a dozen that I got paid a fortune for but never got made."[19] His other acting credits in films include Niagara Motel, Lenny the Wonder Dog, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Chain of Fools, Born Romantic, The Ugly Truth, How to Train Your Dragon, Kick-Ass and Winnie the Pooh.
Ferguson has been touring the United States and Canada with a stand-up comedy show, and performed at Carnegie Hall on 23 October 2010.
[edit] The Late Late Show
Main article: The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
In December 2004, it was announced that Ferguson would be the successor to Craig Kilborn on CBS's The Late Late Show. His first show as the regular host aired on 3 January 2005. By May 2008, Ben Alba, an American television historian and an authority on U.S. talk shows, said Ferguson "has already made his mark, taking the TV monologue to new levels with an underlying story. But he is only just starting ... He is making up his own rules: It's the immigrant experience."[18]
The Late Late Show averaged 2.0 million viewers in its 2007 season, compared with 2.5 million for Late Night with Conan O'Brien.[20] In April 2008, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson beat Late Night with Conan O'Brien for weekly ratings (1.88 million to 1.77 million) for the first time since the two shows went head-to-head with their respective hosts.[21]
By the end of 2009, Craig Ferguson topped Jimmy Fallon in the ratings with Ferguson getting a 1.8 rating/6 share and Fallon receiving a 1.6 rating/6 share.[22]
Ferguson's success on the show has led at least one "television insider" to say he is the heir apparent to take over David Letterman's role as host of The Late Show.[18]
Television and appearances[link]
Craig Ferguson has made guest appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Rachael Ray, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Howard Stern Show, The Daily Show, The View, Loveline, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Soup, The Talk and The Dennis Miller Show. He also co-hosted Live with Regis & Kelly with Kelly Ripa.
On 4 January 2009 Ferguson was a celebrity player on Million Dollar Password.
In 2009, Ferguson made a cameo live-action appearance in the episode "We Love You, Conrad" on Family Guy. Ferguson hosted the 32nd annual People's Choice Awards on 10 January 2006.[23] TV Guide magazine printed a "Cheers" (Cheers and Jeers section) for appearing on his own show that same evening.[citation needed] From 2007 to 2010, Ferguson hosted the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on 4 July, broadcast nationally by CBS. Ferguson was the featured entertainer at the 26 April 2008 White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington, DC.[24]
Ferguson co-presented the Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama with Brooke Shields in 2008. He has done voice work in cartoons, including being the voice of Barry's evil alter-ego in the "With Friends Like Steve's" episode of American Dad; in Freakazoid! as Roddy MacStew, Freakazoid's mentor; and on Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as the robot vampire NOS-4-A2. Most recently, he was the voice of Susan the boil on Futurama, which was a parody of Scottish singer Susan Boyle. He makes stand-up appearances in Las Vegas and New York City. He headlined in the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal and in October 2008 Ferguson taped his stand up show in Boston for a Comedy Central special entitled A Wee Bit o' Revolution, which aired on 22 March 2009.
British television comedy drama Doc Martin was based on a character from Ferguson's film Saving Grace – with Ferguson getting writing credits for 12 episodes.[25] On 6 November 2009 Ferguson appeared as himself in a SpongeBob SquarePants special titled SpongeBob's Truth or Square.[26] He hosted Discovery Channel's 23rd season of Shark Week in 2010. Ferguson briefly appeared in Toby Keith's "Red Solo Cup" music video released on 10 October 2011. [27]
Literature[link]
Ferguson's novel Between the Bridge and the River was published on 10 April 2006. Ferguson appeared at the Los Angeles Festival of Books, as well as other author literary events. "This book could scare them", Ferguson said. "The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm. I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it."[28] Publishers Weekly called it "a tour de force of cynical humor and poignant reverie, a caustic yet ebullient picaresque that approaches the sacred by way of the profane."[citation needed] His novel Between the Bridge and the River is dedicated to his son and to his grandfather, Adam. Ferguson revealed in an interview that he is writing a sequel to the book, to be titled "The Sphynx of the Mississippi".[29] He also stated in a 2006 interview with David Letterman that he intends for the book to be the first in a trilogy.[30]
Ferguson signed a deal with HarperCollins to publish his memoirs.[31] The book, entitled American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot, focuses on "how and why [he] became an American" and covers his years as a punk rocker, dancer, bouncer and construction worker as well as the rise of his career in Hollywood as an actor and comic. It went on sale 22 September 2009 in the United States.[32][33] On 1 December 2010 the audiobook version was nominated for a Best Spoken Word Album Grammy.[34]
In July 2009, Jackie Collins was a guest on The Late Late Show to promote her new book Married Lovers. Collins said that a character in her book, Don Verona, was based on Ferguson because she was such a fan of him and his show.[35]
Personal life[link]
As mentioned on The Late Late Show on 3 August 2009, Ferguson holds an FAA Private Pilot's License issued 31 July 2009.[36] Ferguson announced on the 8 April 2011 broadcast that he is pursuing an instrument rating.
Ferguson is a fan of Scottish football team Partick Thistle F.C.[12] as well as the British television show Doctor Who. He has three tattoos: his latest, the Join, or Die political cartoon on his right forearm;[37][38] a Ferguson family crest with the Latin motto Dulcius ex asperis ("Sweeter out of [or from] difficulty") on his upper right arm in honour of his father;[39] and the Ingram family crest on his upper left arm in honour of his mother. He has often stated that his Join, or Die tattoo is to signal his patriotism.[37]
Family[link]
In an episode of The Late Late Show that aired 8 December 2008, a somber Ferguson talked about his mother, Janet (3 August 1933 – 1 December 2008). He ended the program by playing her favourite song, "Rivers of Babylon" by Boney M.[40]
Ferguson has two sisters (one older and one younger) and one older brother.[41] His elder sister's name is Janice and his brother's name is Scott. His younger sister, Lynn Ferguson Tweddle, is also a successful comedienne, presenter, and actress, perhaps most widely known as the voice of Mac in the 2000 stop-motion animation film Chicken Run. She is currently a writer on The Late Late Show.
Ferguson has married three times and divorced twice as a result of what he describes as "relationship issues". His first marriage was to Anne Hogarth from 1983 to 1986, during which time they lived in New York. From his second marriage (to Sascha Corwin, founder and proprietor of Los Angeles' SpySchool), he has one son, Milo Hamish Ferguson, born in 2001. He and Corwin share custody of Milo, and live near each other in Los Angeles. On 21 December 2008, Ferguson married art dealer Megan Wallace-Cunningham in a private ceremony on her family's farm in Chester, Vermont.[42] Ferguson announced 14 July 2010 on Twitter that they were expecting a child. He wrote: "Holy crackers! Mrs F is pregnant. How did that happen? ... oh yeah I know how. Another Ferguson arrives in 2011. The world trembles."[43] The child, a boy named Liam James, was born 31 January 2011.[44]
Alcoholism[link]
A recovering alcoholic, Ferguson has been sober since 18 February 1992.[45] Because of this, he declared he wouldn't mock Britney Spears' much-publicized alcohol problems in 2007.[46] He said he had considered committing suicide on Christmas Day 1991, but when offered a drink by a friend for celebrating the holiday, he was distracted from jumping off Tower Bridge in London as he had planned.[3]
Citizenship[link]
Holding dual citizenship, Ferguson is both a naturalized citizen of the United States and a British citizen.
During 2007, Ferguson, who at the time held only British citizenship, used The Late Late Show as a forum for seeking honorary citizenship from every state in the U.S. He has received honorary citizenship from Nebraska, Arkansas, Virginia, Montana, North Dakota, New Jersey, Tennessee, South Carolina, South Dakota, Nevada, Alaska, Texas, Wyoming, Pennsylvania and Indiana, and was "commissioned" as an admiral in the tongue-in-cheek Nebraska Navy.[47] Governors Jon Corzine (New Jersey), John Hoeven (North Dakota), Mark Sanford (South Carolina), Mike Rounds (South Dakota), Rick Perry (Texas), Sarah Palin (Alaska) and Jim Gibbons (Nevada) sent letters to him that made him an honorary citizen of their respective states. He received similar honors from various towns and cities, including Ozark, Arkansas; Hazard, Kentucky; and Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
Ferguson became an American citizen on 1 February 2008[2] and broadcast the taking of his citizenship test as well as his swearing in on The Late Late Show.
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1992 | The Bogie Man | ||
| 1998 | Modern Vampires | Richard | |
| 1999 | The Big Tease | Crawford Mackenzie | Writer |
| 2000 | Chain of Fools | Melander Stevens | |
| 2000 | Born Romantic | Frankie | |
| 2000 | Saving Grace | Matthew Stewart | Writer |
| 2002 | Life Without Dick | Jared O'Reilly | |
| 2002 | Prendimi l'anima (The Soul Keeper) | Richard Fraser | |
| 2003 | I'll Be There | Paul Kerr | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Person of Indeterminate Gender | |
| 2004 | Lenny the Wonder Dog | Dr. Wagner | |
| 2005 | Vampire Bats | Fisherman | |
| 2006 | Niagara Motel | Phillie | |
| 2007 | Trust Me | Ted Truman | |
| 2008 | Craig Ferguson: A Wee Bit O' Revolution | ||
| 2009 | The Ugly Truth | Himself | |
| 2010 | The Hero of Color City | ||
| 2010 | How to Train Your Dragon | Gobber | Voice only |
| 2010 | Kick-Ass | Himself | |
| 2011 | Winnie the Pooh | Owl | Voice only |
| 2011 | Totally Framed | Jeffrey Stewart | |
| 2012 | Brave | Lord Macintosh | Voice only |
| 2012 | My Fair Lady | David | Post-production |
| 2014 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 | Gobber | Voice only |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1988 | Red Dwarf | Confidence | Episode: Confidence and Paranoia |
| 1989 | The Big Gig | Himself | Regular Comic |
| 1993 | One Foot in the Grave | Glaswegian beach bully | Christmas Special "One foot in the Algarve" |
| 1994 | The Dirt Detective: A History of Scotland | Travel documentary series | Host |
| 1994 | The Ferguson Theory | Himself | Host |
| 1995–1996 | Maybe This Time | Logan McDonough | 18 episodes |
| 1995–1997 | Freakazoid! | Roddy MacStew | 7 episodes |
| 1996–2004 | The Drew Carey Show | Nigel Wick | 170 episodes |
| 2000 | Buzz Lightyear of Star Command | NOS 4 A2 | Voice only, 5 episodes |
| 2005 | Life as We Know It | Oliver Davies | 1 episode |
| 2005–present | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Himself | Host |
| 2006 | American Dad! | Evil Barry | Voice only, Episode: With Friends Like Steve's |
| 2009 | Family Guy | Himself | Episode: We Love You, Conrad |
| 2009 | SpongeBob's Truth or Square | Himself | TV movie |
| 2010 | Futurama | Susan Boil | Episode: Attack of the Killer App |
| 2010 | Shark Week | Himself | Host |
| 2010 | Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon | Gobber | Voice only, TV short film |
Bibliography[link]
- Between the Bridge and the River. Chronicle Books. 2006. ISBN 978-0-8118-5375-0.
- American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot. HarperCollins. 2009. ISBN 978-0-06-171954-7.
Comedy specials[link]
- A Wee Bit o' Revolution. Comedy Central. 2009.
- Does This Need to Be Said? EPIX, Comedy Central. 2011.
Discography[link]
- Live At The Tron (as Bing Hitler). Jammy Records. 1986. Catalogue number JRLP 861.
References[link]
- ^ Tennant, Thomas. "Bio Brief: Craig Ferguson". About.com. http://talkshows.about.com/od/craigferguson/p/BioCraig.htm. Retrieved 6 April 2012.
- ^ a b "Craig Ferguson passes citizenship test". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2008-01-28-craig-ferguson_N.htm. Retrieved 7 April 2007.
- ^ a b c d Andy Borowitz (1 October 2009). "The Scotsman". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/books/review/Borowitz-t.html. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
- ^ a b Ferguson, American on Purpose, p. 14.
- ^ Ferguson, American on Purpose, p. 31.
- ^ Ferguson, American on Purpose, pp. 66-68.
- ^ "Craig Ferguson Eulogizes his Father". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJWlNPq0ftM. Retrieved 17 August 2008.
- ^ Tucker, Ken (October 12, 2007), "Great Scot", Entertainment Weekly (958), http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20144925,00.html
- ^ Ferguson, American on Purpose, p. 110.
- ^ Ferguson, American on Purpose, pp. 112-113.
- ^ "Craig Ferguson". NNDB. Soylent Communications. http://www.nndb.com/people/262/000087998/. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
- ^ a b c Ferguson, Craig (September 2009). American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot. ISBN 0-06-171954-4.
- ^ "Live At The Tron Discogs entry". http://www.discogs.com/Bing-Hitler-Live-At-The-Tron/release/2150881. Retrieved 21 February 2010.
- ^ "The Craig Ferguson Show: listing at imdb". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0398895. Retrieved 6 November 2009.
- ^ Carter, Bill (29 September 2009). "Late Night Transplant Looks Back At His Path". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/arts/television/29fergus.html. Retrieved 6 November 2009. "We did it exactly the same except for soccer references instead of baseball, and we brought down the house every night."
- ^ "Craig Ferguson stand-up comedy clip". Scotland on TV. SMG Productions. http://www.scotlandontv.tv/scotland_on_tv/video.html?vxSiteId=60fdd544-9c52-4e17-be7e-57a2a2d76992&vxChannel=Culture%20On%20Stage&vxClipId=1380_SMG1264&vxBitrate=300. Retrieved 23 October 2008.
- ^ "Craig Ferguson in Dirt Detective". Scotland on TV. SMG Productions. http://www.scotlandontv.tv/scotland_on_tv/video.html?vxSiteId=60fdd544-9c52-4e17-be7e-57a2a2d76992&vxChannel=History%20Archaeology&vxClipId=1380_SMG124&vxBitrate=300. Retrieved 22 October 2008.
- ^ a b c Craig Ferguson 'may be next Letterman'. The Sunday Times.
- ^ Conversations with Michael Eisner
- ^ "Jay and Conan Rule The Late-Night Week, Stretching Their Year-Ago Leads". NBC Universal. http://nbcumv.com/entertainment/release_detail.nbc/entertainment-20070510000000-jayandconanrulet.html. Retrieved 18 May 2007. [dead link]
- ^ "Ferguson beats Conan in ratings for 1st time". cnn.com. Archived from the original on 12 May 2008. http://web.archive.org/web/20080512225331/http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/04/11/tv.fergusons.first.ap/. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
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- ^ "Ferguson to host U.S. "People's Choice Awards" show". The America's Intelligence Wire. 26 October 2005. http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-9810530_ITM. Retrieved 1 June 2008.
- ^ "Bush pokes fun at his successors". BBC News. 27 April 2008. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7369510.stm. Retrieved 27 April 2008.
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- ^ "SpongeBob and Sandy to Tie the Knot". http://www.onewed.com/news/2009/10/14/spongebob-squarepants-tie-knot.
- ^ "Toby Releases Star-Studded “Stupid,” “Perfect” Song". http://www.countryweekly.com/news/toby-releases-star-studded-stupid-perfect-song. Retrieved 19 October 2011.
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- ^ http://www.chroniclebooks.com/Chronicle/excerpt/0811853756a.html
- ^ "Letterman interviews Ferguson about Novel, 2006". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQA-W4htXaY.
- ^ "Craig Ferguson set to pen memoirs." Variety. May 2008.
- ^ "American on Purpose: Book Description". http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061719547/American_on_Purpose/index.aspx. Retrieved 2009.
- ^ http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061719544
- ^ http://www.grammy.com/nominees?year=2010&genre=32. Retrieved on 2010-12-2.
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- ^ "The Rallying Cry of the Robot Skeleton Army". tweetphoto. 11 February 2010. http://tweetphoto.com/10992555.
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| Colin Mochrie | |
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 Mochrie in June 2009 |
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| Birth name | Colin Andrew Mochrie |
| Born | (1957-11-30) November 30, 1957 (age 54) Kilmarnock, Scotland |
| Medium | Stand-up comedy, television |
| Nationality | Scottish Canadian |
| Years active | 1977–present |
| Genres | Improvisational comedy |
| Influences | "Anyone who made people laugh"[1] |
| Spouse | Debra McGrath (1989–present) |
| Notable works and roles | British and American versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway? This Hour Has 22 Minutes (2001-2003) |
| Website | http://www.colinmochrie.com/ |
Colin Andrew Mochrie (/ˈmɒkri/; born November 30, 1957) is a Scottish Canadian actor and improvisational comedian, most famous for his appearances on the British and U.S. versions of television improvisation show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
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Early life[link]
Colin Mochrie was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, the oldest of three children. He was shy as a child, stating that neighbours would have commented that he "watched way too much television."[2] In 1964, his family moved to a French neighbourhood just outside Montreal, Quebec, and five years later moved again to Vancouver, British Columbia.[3] Mochrie attended Killarney Secondary School, where he was a self-proclaimed loner who wanted to become a marine biologist.[4] He was persuaded by a friend to try out for a play entitled The Death and Life of Sneaky Fitch where Mochrie played the role of the undertaker.[2] He was hooked when he got his first laugh, which paved the way for a career in entertainment.[4] After graduating from high school, where he was valedictorian,[5] Mochrie attended the Studio 58 theatre school in Vancouver for four years, where he discovered the art of improvisational comedy.[6]
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Improvisational beginnings[link]
Upon graduation from Studio 58, Mochrie found his first line of work as a member of the Vancouver TheatreSports League.[4] He started working with the group in 1980. Fame was slow to start, as Mochrie "literally had to pull people out of McDonald's to come see the shows."[5] Mochrie originally had parts in plays while working for the group, though after a time working for the TheatreSports League became a full-time job for Mochrie.[5] He met fellow improv comedian Ryan Stiles during this time. He was visiting a mutual friend in New Zealand when Stiles was doing comedy at Punchlines. After the two met, Stiles and Mochrie began working at TheatreSports together.[5] It has been stated that the two met while members of Second City,[7] though, according to Mochrie, this is untrue.[5]
Following Expo '86, Mochrie ended his tenure with the Vancouver TheatreSports League and moved to Toronto. Once there, Mochrie auditioned for The Second City comedy troupe, where Stiles was working.[8] He began performing with the Second City National Touring Company where he met Debra McGrath, who was the director of the company at the time.[4] The two were married in 1989 and had a son, Luke, in 1990.
Mochrie worked for The Second City for three years, co-writing and starring in three productions and directing three seasons of their national touring company. As a member of the touring company, he performed in many skits, including one where he and two others are at a bar, and they help him to rewrite an anecdote from his youth involving his father taking him to a baseball game; and a five-minute version of a James Bond movie, complete with Mochrie in a downhill ski chase and parachuting off a cliff.[9]
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Upon finishing his stint with Second City in 1988, Mochrie's career was quiet for a while as he spent some time with his new wife and child. In 1989, he auditioned for the new British Channel 4 improv show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, but did not make the cut.[10] Mochrie has stated that audition was a good learning experience because while improv is about setting other people up to be funny, auditions should be about giving yourself chance to stand out.[11] He moved to Los Angeles the following year, and again auditioned for Whose Line, this time making the cut and was asked to fly to London. He appeared on one episode and was again let go.[12] The third time he auditioned, he earned a regular spot on the show. He spent seven years as a regular on Whose Line Is It Anyway? and remained a cast member until the show's end in 1998.
After the British version of the show ended its run, Mochrie joined the American version of Whose Line hosted by Drew Carey on ABC. He was brought on alongside Ryan Stiles, who was also a regular member of the UK cast.[13] Mochrie appeared on every episode from its debut in August 1998 to its finale in 2006. He noted his favorite sketches as "Scenes From a Hat", where he would have to act out scenes written up by audience members, and "Whose Line" where he and Stiles would act out a sketch and have to add in lines written on pieces of paper.[14] He felt that his weak spots were the musical segments and the "Hoedown" sketch, which he said was the only time during the show when he felt total fear. Mochrie, who could not sing, usually spoke his lines instead of singing them.[14]
His co-stars on the show would frequently mock him for being Canadian and for his receding hairline, though this did not come until later as very early on in the UK version, Mochrie still had a fairly full head of hair. Instead, the bald jokes were done at the expense of the UK host, Clive Anderson. In the American version, he would often perform the female role in certain frequently-performed skits, such as "Whose Line" and "Two Line Vocabulary". In the few times he played the man in the scene, the producers were making further fun of his baldness (e.g. Colin was Samson, and Ryan was his girlfriend, and Samson had lost all his strength because Ryan had cut off his hair). He would also be cast as the anchor in the "Newscasters" segment (along with Greg Proops and Brad Sherwood), wherein he would frequently begin by announcing himself with a fictitiously humorous name (e.g. Jose Canyousee) and continue with a fake news report that ended in an unexpected and pun-laden segue.
According to his agent Jeff Andrews, during the airing of Whose Line Mochrie was better known in Canada as a "commercial king", performing as characters such the Detergent Crusader for Sunlight detergent.[10] In March 2005, a Nabisco advertising campaign starred Mochrie as the "Snack Fairy", in which he wears a ballet tutu over ordinary slacks and a shirt. At the end of each commercial, he declares "Snack happy!" and waves his scepter while sporting a smile.
Mochrie remained active elsewhere during his tenure as a Whose Line member. In early 1994, he played the role of Mike Brady in a musical version of The Brady Bunch, directed by fellow Second City member Bruce Pirrie. In the production, Mochrie plays the character as caffeine-fueled, jittery, and neurotic, an exaggeration of the Mike Brady television character, who often had a coffee in his hand on the show.[15] Shortly before his move to the U.S. version of Whose Line in 1998, Mochrie starred in Supertown Challenge as the host of game shows, which the show spoofed.
1999–present[link]
In an interview, it was revealed that in 1999 Mochrie worked on the Miloš Forman film Man on the Moon, but his scenes were deleted from the final movie.[16]
Mochrie starred in the Canadian comedy series Blackfly. He appeared in This Hour Has 22 Minutes on CBC Television from 2001 through 2003, and on the WB Television Network series Drew Carey's Green Screen Show in 2004. Mochrie starred in Getting Along Famously in 2006. He was a guest star in three episodes of The Drew Carey Show: "She's Gotta Have It" (1999), "Drew Live" (1999), and "Drew Live II" (2000). He also appeared on Nickelodeon's Figure It Out as a celebrity guest panelist; in one segment of the show, he was slimed. He had a one-liner in the "Bad Hare Day" episode of Goosebumps, and he made special guest appearances in several episodes of The Red Green Show.
In 2003, Mochrie, Leslie Nielsen, Wayne Gretzky, and Roy Halladay appeared in print and television advertisements to encourage people to visit Toronto after the SARS outbreak that struck the city.
In May 2004, he hosted a tongue-in-cheek guide to surviving animal attacks on Animal Planet known as Wild Survival Guide. He has done a commercial supporting Habitat For Humanity. He appeared briefly in a commercial for Buckley's Cough Syrup, and he was featured in a commercial for New York Fries, manning a steamroller. He appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as the superhero Overly Sensitive Man (inspired from Whose Line).
By 2004 Mochrie was appearing in so many media spots that a new Canadian television series, Corner Gas, made light of it by having him do a cameo appearance in the tenth episode. The gag had Mochrie appear shortly after the character Brent mentioned that Mochrie has a cameo in nearly everything. In 2005, Mochrie appeared in "Burnt Toast", a series of eight comedic mini-operas, each depicting a different stage of a romantic relationship in a contemporary setting, produced by Canada's Rhombus Media. He also appeared in an episode of The Surreal Gourmet.
Along with Rosie O'Donnell, Mochrie hosts a video introduction to a tour of the bakery in the Pacific Wharf area of Disney California Adventure Park. In the video, he helps explain how sourdough bread is made. On December 25, 2005, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation premièred the TV movie The Magical Gathering. Mochrie starred in this, and his son Luke co-starred as Mochrie's character at a younger age. In February 2007, he made a guest appearance as a priest in the seventh episode of Little Mosque on the Prairie, a Canadian television comedy series.
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On March 28, 2007, Mochrie and his Whose Line costar Brad Sherwood hosted part of the Press Correspondents' Dinner with the President. At that event, Sherwood and Mochrie featured Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove rapping. Rove's only line was "MC Rove". On August 29, 2007, it was announced that Mochrie would host the Canadian version of the game show Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?. The first of five episodes aired on October 25, 2007. As a result, Mochrie became the fifth member of the American Whose Line? cast to become a game show host, after colleagues Brad Sherwood (The Dating Game and The Big Moment), Greg Proops (VS., Head Games and Rendez-View), Wayne Brady (Don't Forget the Lyrics! and Let's Make A Deal), and Drew Carey (Power of 10 and The Price Is Right).
Since 2002, Mochrie and Sherwood have intermittently toured North America as a two-man stage show called "An Evening with Colin and Brad," playing primarily in small theater venues.[17] A DVD of their performances, "Colin & Brad: Two Man Group" was released on March 8, 2011.
In 2010, he acted in the forthcoming Canadian television sitcom She's the Mayor, scheduled to debut in 2011.[18]
On July 19, 2010, Mochrie starred as the divorce lawyer working on the case of Spinner and Emma in Degrassi Takes Manhattan.
The image of Mochrie's face is used extensively in Animutation, a style of Flash animation. Neil Cicierega, the father of Animutation[citation needed], would place Mochrie in almost every Animutation he made, making the inclusion of him in Animutation somewhat of a running gag. Mochrie is aware of his status among Animutation artists and fans, having been quoted, "It was very odd when I first saw the animutations. Obviously the animators are more than a little crazy, but I am very proud of my standing in the animutation arena and hope that some day I can make millions off of it."[19]
In 2011, Mochrie appeared as a regular cast member on Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza on GSN.[20]
Personal life[link]
Mochrie lives in Toronto, Canada with his wife, Debra McGrath and his son Luke, who is a regular contributor on the comedic website That Guy with the Glasses with the show Film Conscience.[citation needed]
Awards[link]
Mochrie has been nominated for five Canadian Comedy Awards, and has won two. He has also won a Gemini Award and a Writers Guild of Canada award for This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
References[link]
- ^ "Colin Mochrie Biography". Colinmochrie.com. J. Johnston/eAvalon. http://colinmochrie.com. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
- ^ a b Byrne, Bridget (December 24, 2000). "Comedian keeps track of Santa". Ocala Star-Banner: p. 7D. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=WDwVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bAgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6694,4786788.
- ^ De Giorgio, Lorianna (February 23, 2006). "Funnyman Mochrie shy guy at heart". Town Crier Online (Multimedia Nova Corporation). http://www.mytowncrier.ca/story-13596-1-1.html. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ^ a b c d Fink, Jerry (November 25, 2005). "Colin doesn't make mockery of LV comedy". Las Vegas Sun. http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2005/nov/25/colin-doesnt-make-mockery-of-lv-comedy/. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
- ^ a b c d e MacPherson, Guy (November 27, 2007). "Colin Mochrie Interview". The Comedy Couch. http://www.comedycouch.com/interviews/cmochrie2.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-13.
- ^ Byrne, Bridget (December 22, 2000). "Improv crew popping up". San Antonio Express-News: p. 4F.
- ^ Markstrom, Serena (June 15, 2007). "Improv troupe rolls with it and rocks the house". Eugene Register-Guard: p. 14.
- ^ "Colin Mochrie, Brad Sherwood head for Capitol Center". New Hampshire Union Leader. November 13, 2008. http://www.newhampshire.com/article.aspx?headline=Colin+Mochrie%2C+Brad+Sherwood+head+for+Capitol+Center&articleid=2526. Retrieved 2009-07-21.
- ^ Mietkiewicz, Henry (June 7, 1989). "Second City Hits A New Plateau". Toronto Star: p. B2.
- ^ a b Branswell, Helen (August 25, 1996). "Toronto Comic Becomes British Celeb". Toronto Star: p. B4.
- ^ "Episode 40: Featuring Colin Mochrie « Conversations with Ross". Rosscarey.com. 2011-07-28. http://www.rosscarey.com/2011/07/28/episode-40-featuring-colin-mochrie/. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
- ^ Salem, Rob (August 9, 1998). "Beating Hollywood at its own game". Toronto Star: p. E1.
- ^ Salem, Rob (July 19, 1998). "ABC charts new series strategy". Toronto Star: p. 1.
- ^ a b Hill, Peggy (August 27, 2000). "Who is Colin Mochrie Anyway?". Northern Stars Magazine.
- ^ Tennant, Jamie (February 3, 1994). "Here's the story of a play named Brady". The Hamilton Spectator: p. 11.
- ^ Rice, Ian (March 2, 2005). "An Interview with...Colin Mochrie". Stony Brook Independent. http://www.sbindependent.org/node/192. Retrieved September 2, 2010.
- ^ An Evening with Colin and Brad
- ^ "She's the Mayor finds laughs in Hamilton". Hamilton Spectator, April 16, 2010.
- ^ "Ask Colin Mochrie". Colinmochrie.com. J. Johnston/eAvalon. http://colinmochrie.com/askcolin2.cfm. Retrieved 2009-07-27. [dead link]
- ^ Mipasthiewyebut, Keith. "Charlie Sheen's Improntu Improv with Drew Carey". ET HD. http://www.etonline.com/tv/109254_Charlie_Sheen_s_Impromptu_Improv_with_Drew_Carey/index.html. Retrieved 4/6/2011.
External links[link]
- Official website
- Colin Mochrie at the Internet Movie Database
- TV.com profile
- Evening with Colin & Brad live tour
Interviews[link]
- An Interview with...Colin Mochrie, 2 March 2005
- The Comedy Couch Colin Mochrie interview, 10 May 2005
- Audio interview with Colin Mochrie, 18 January 2006
- Interview, December 2006
- Tempo Toronto interview
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| Jeff Ross | |
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.jpg) Jeff Ross in 2005 |
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| Pseudonym | The Roast Master General |
| Birth name | Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz |
| Born | (1965-09-13) September 13, 1965 (age 46) Springfield, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Medium | Stand-up, television, film, books |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Genres | Roast comedian, satire |
| Subject(s) | Jewish culture, pop culture, self-deprecation |
| Influences | Eddie Murphy, Steve Martin, Cheech & Chong, The Blues Brothers[1] |
| Notable works and roles | Comedy Central Roasts Buddy in Where My Dogs At? |
Jeff Ross (born Jeffrey Ross Lifschultz; September 13, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian, insult comic, actor, director and author.
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Early life[link]
Ross was born and raised in Springfield, New Jersey.[2] He attended Jonathan Dayton High School in Springfield. He is Jewish, as mentioned in his 2008 Comedy Central stand-up special, Jeffrey Ross: No Offense. He is a graduate of Boston University's College of Communication. In a 2008 interview for the student-run BUTV10 program Full Circle, Ross mentioned that during his college years he was the director at BU's WTBU and worked at the local NPR affiliate.[citation needed] His mother died from leukemia when he was 14 years old. His father died 5 years later when Ross was 19 years old.[3]
Comedy career[link]
In 1996, he was in the movie Celtic Pride.
Ross is the current New York Friars' Club Roastmaster General, and was a roaster for the last nine Comedy Central Roasts: Pamela Anderson in 2005, William Shatner in 2006, Flavor Flav in 2007, Bob Saget in 2008, Larry the Cable Guy in 2009, Joan Rivers in 2009, David Hasselhoff in 2010, and Donald Trump and Charlie Sheen in 2011. He has also written for, performed in and/or produced several other celebrity roasts, including those for Hugh Hefner, Rob Reiner, Jerry Stiller, Drew Carey, Emmitt Smith, Carson Daly, Mike Greenberg, Mike Golic, Gene Simmons, and David Hasselhoff. In addition to his roasts, his stand-up has been featured in Comedy Central's animated series Shorties Watchin' Shorties.[4]
He is the author of a book released September 15, 2009, titled I Only Roast the Ones I Love: Busting Balls Without Burning Bridges. It recounts his rise to stardom and, includes tips on writing roast jokes and has ideas on how to put on a roast.
In addition to Ross' dramatic turn on CBS's CSI, he has appeared on HBO's Six Feet Under, Comedy Central's The Sarah Silverman Program, and Showtime's Weeds. He has also appeared as a regular cast member in Nick Cannon's Wild 'n Out on MTV. In film, he has appeared in Stuck on You and The Aristocrats. He also provided the voice for the beagle Buddy in the MTV2 Sic'emation animated satire program that he created, Where My Dogs At?. He appeared in the third tournament of Celebrity Poker, but lost in his first match.
Ross' 2005 directorial debut, Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Movie received the Best Feature Film Award at the Montreal Comedy Festival. The documentary is about Ross' life changing experience entertaining U.S. troops stationed around Iraq. It features fellow comedians/comic actors Drew Carey, Blake Clark and Kathy Kinney.
Ross competed on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars. He was partnered with Edyta Śliwińska. During rehearsal of their first dance, Ross was accidentally poked in the eye by Śliwińska, suffering a scratched cornea. Against doctor's advice, Ross continued the competition. They were the first couple to be eliminated.
| Week # | Dance/Song | Judges' score | Result | ||
| Inaba | Goodman | Tonioli | |||
| 1A | Cha-Cha-Cha – "Play That Funky Music" | 4 | 4 | 4 | Eliminated |
| 1B | Quickstep – "I Get a Kick out of You" | n/a | n/a | n/a | Not scored: performed as encore for elimination show |
In other media[link]
An animated version of Jeff Ross appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold in the opening to "Crisis: 22,300 Miles Above Earth" voiced by Ross himself. He distracted Joker and the other villains at Joker's celebrity roast in order for Batman to escape being literally roasted alive. When Joker tries to escape, Jeff gets in the way and stops Joker in his tracks. He suggests that he could be a full-time crime-fighter, but Batman advises he should just stick to comedy.
Political Engagments[link]
On October 19th, he visited the protesters of the Occupy movement in L.A to support their cause[5].
References[link]
- ^ Ross, Jeffrey (2009). I Only Roast the Ones I Love. Gallery Books. ISBN [[Special:BookSources/1-4391-0279-4|1-4391-0279-4]].
- ^ Jeffrey Ross: No Offense. Comedy Central. August 22, 2008.
- ^ The Adam Carolla podcast, 12/6/2010
- ^ comedycentral.com
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpsYHxFeA0s
External links[link]
- Official website
- Jeff Ross on Myspace
- Jeff Ross at the Internet Movie Database
- Patriot Act at the Internet Movie Database
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| Place of birth | Springfield, New Jersey |
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| Greg Proops | |
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 Official headshot of Proops |
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| Pseudonym | The Proopster |
| Birth name | Gregory Everett Proops |
| Born | (1959-10-03) October 3, 1959 (age 52)[1] Phoenix, Arizona, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Genres | Improvisational comedy Stand-up comedy |
| Spouse | Jennifer Canaga (February 14, 1990–present) |
| Notable works and roles | Whose Line Is It Anyway? Whose Line Is It Anyway? (U.S. TV series) Bob the Builder True Jackson, VP Chelsea Lately |
| Website | http://www.gregproops.com |
Gregory Everett "Greg" Proops (born October 3, 1959)[1] is an American actor, stand-up comedian and television host. He is widely known for his work as an improvisational comedian on the UK and U.S. versions of Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He also performed on Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and played Max Madigan on the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP.[2][3]
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Early life[link]
Proops was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in San Carlos, California, a suburb south of San Francisco, attending San Carlos High School.[4][5] He attended the College of San Mateo and spearheaded the comedy duo "Proops & Brakeman". Later, he took courses in improvisation and acting at San Francisco State University though he never finished college.[6]
Career[link]
Improv comedy[link]
After college, he joined an improv group with Mike McShane. Both Proops and McShane impressed producers Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, who put them on their show, Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He frequently instigated jokes and running gags concerning various idiosyncrasies and differences between British English and American English (e.g. "lift" vs. "elevator"), and would frequently banter with Clive Anderson on these matters (among others). He lived in London for four years when he was doing the show and lists McShane and Colin Mochrie as among his best friends.
Proops also appeared in every episode of the short-lived Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, where the performers would play improv games (some of which were taken from the show's main influence Whose Line Is It Anyway?) in front of a massive green screen. Later animators would draw on the background and other props.
In April 2011, a new series Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza premiered on GSN featuring Greg along with others from Whose Line is it Anyway?.
In November 2011, Greg did a week on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas with the Lewis Black Comedy Cruise Tour. He performed the entire week of stand-up with other artists, which included a live, one-hour podcast in front of his entire audience.
Film and television[link]
Proops has performed his stand-up act across Britain, mainland Europe and in New Zealand. However, he remains best known for appearances on both the US and UK versions of Whose Line is it Anyway?. His other credits include hosting Space Cadets, a mid-1990s science-fiction comedy game show on Channel 4 in the UK, which also featured Craig Charles (Dave Lister from Red Dwarf) and Bill Bailey, and appearances on BBC2's Mock the Week. He appeared as a panelist on the 2000 revival of To Tell the Truth. Proops also hosted two game shows: VS. in 1999 and Rendez-View in 2001. He was on Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn on a recurring basis. In 2004 he appeared on Drew Carey's Green Screen Show.[7] He is also a panelist on Chelsea Lately.
In addition to his stand-up and improv acts, Proops has done voice work in various films and TV shows, including the miniseries Stripperella with Pamela Anderson, and in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas alongside co-star Catherine O'Hara. He also provided the voice for the Fode, the Galactic Basic speaking half of the two-headed Pod-Race announcer in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, with Scott Capurro providing the voice for the other, Huttese-speaking half, Beed. Proops provided the voice of Bob in the TV series Bob the Builder for the four seasons of Project Build-It. He has also featured in 2003 film Brother Bear as the voice of one of the Love Bears and also provided the voice as Cryptograf in 2006 film Asterix and the Vikings.
Proops appeared as an extra in the music video for the 1987 song "Into the Night" by Frehley's Comet.
Proops also voiced the film director Quentin Hitchberg in one episode of Dennis and Gnasher.
In 2007 he started his own web show, The Greg Proops Experiment, on online humour site Super Deluxe, which consists of Proops ranting about current events.
In 2008, he was in Cyxork 7.[8]
On 28 August 2008, Greg returned to his UK improvisation roots as he guest starred on Mock the Week having first appeared as a guest in 2006. He was one of the two guest stars for that week along with Scottish comedian Fred MacAulay.
Proops has a recurring role on Nickelodeon's True Jackson, VP. He plays Max Madigan, Mad Style's CEO.
Greg appeared on "A Good Opportunity", the season premiere of the second season of the HBO sitcom Flight of the Conchords.
He is a frequent guest on Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld which airs on the Fox News Channel at 3 AM EST. He joins the show via satellite. Greg is also a frequent guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He also plays Ben, Illeana Douglas’ agent on her webshow Easy to Assemble.[9][10]
He hosted a show named Head Games, a Science Channel game show which debuted on Oct. 17th, 2009. As host, he showed clips of somewhat wacky science experiments and asked the contestants to guess the outcome.
Since October, 2010 Greg started hosting an online TV news show called "Odd News" on Yahoo!, where he reports, in less than 4 minutes, odd but real world news in a commentary, satiric style.
Star Wars[link]
Greg has been involved with the Star Wars franchise as well. He played the role of "Fode" in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. He would later work with the Expanded Universe, reprising his role as Fode in the video game Star Wars Episode I: Racer and the video game adaptation of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and he guest-starred on two episodes of the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars ("The Mandalore Plot" and "Voyage of Temptation") as Tal Merrick. When Greg was in Whose Line Is It Anyway? he occasionally used one of Fode's lines, "I don't care what universe you're from, that's gotta hurt."
Radio/Podcast[link]
Proops hosts a bi-weekly radio program, and a nightclub-atmosphere talk show at the Largo in Hollywood, and played the title role in BBC Radio 4's sci-fi comedy series Seymour the Fractal Cat.
He was a frequent guest on Marc Maron's radio show, The Marc Maron Show.
He presented Bits from Last Week's Radio on BBC Radio 1 from Jan 1995-July 1996.
He did voice work for the BBC Radio 2 series Flight of the Conchords, first broadcast in September 2005.
Greg Proops was also part of the cast for Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack and movie back in 1993. His name is listed under "Cast" in the original version of the soundtrack's booklet. He provided the vocal work for the Harlequin Demon, the Devil, and the Sax Player.
Greg currently hosts a podcast, The Smartest Man In The World,[11] in which he talks about current events, celebrity culture, and his personal life in front of a live audience.
Video games[link]
Proops provides voice-over work as Howard “Buckshot” Holmes, a game show announcer along with John DiMaggio for the Nintendo Wii game, MadWorld. Both Dimaggio and Proops play as comical announcers on a brutal game show set in the future. Proops also provided the voice of Fargus, a pyromantic court jester for the PlayStation Pandemonium game series.
Comedy albums[link]
- Back in the UK (1997)
- Houston, We Have a Problem (2007)
- Joke Book (2007)
- Elsewhere (2009)
- Greg Proops Digs In! (2010)
Personal life[link]
Proops married artist Jennifer Canaga on Valentine's Day in 1990. He resides with her in Los Angeles. They have no children. According to an interview featuring Proops, he decided he didn't want any kids when he was twenty-three. He does, however, have nieces and nephews, and he became an uncle when he was eight.
For several years, Greg upheld the idea that he owned an ocelot. However, on March 25, 2009, in a written interview, he stated that he doesn't actually own one:
"Oh, I say I have an ocelot and it’s a joke, but I’ve had so many news programs in this country say, 'So what’s it like, having an ocelot?” And I’ll say, “It’s marvelous just to see them run free. When feeding time comes and they’re mewling, it just warms your heart.' People will really believe anything. You may have noticed this. It’s not just me. Look around."[12]
References[link]
- ^ a b "Greg Proops Biography (1959-)". Filmreference.com. 1959-10-03. http://www.filmreference.com/film/45/Greg-Proops.html. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ "greg proops :: actor, standup comedian, voice talent, writer, improv artist". gregproops.com. http://www.gregproops.com/. Retrieved 2011-08-16.
- ^ McNamara, Mary (2008-11-08). "True Jackson, VP". The LA Times. Archived from the original on 2009-04-12. http://www.webcitation.org/5fyKmu50I. Retrieved 2009-04-12.
- ^ The Adam Carolla Show (podcast), 2011-08-03 show with Greg Proops, 59 minute mark
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Drew Allison Carey (born May 23, 1958) is an American actor, comedian, sports executive, and game show host. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained popularity starring on his own sitcom, The Drew Carey Show, and serving as host of the U.S. version of the improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?, both of which aired on ABC.
Carey has appeared in several films, television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game. As of 2012, he hosts the television game show The Price Is Right. He is interested in a variety of sports, has worked as a photographer at U.S. National Team soccer games, is a minority owner of the Major League Soccer team Seattle Sounders FC and a member of the WWE Hall of Fame. Carey has written an autobiography, Dirty Jokes And Beer: Stories Of The Unrefined, detailing his early life and television career.
Carey was the youngest of Lewis and Beulah Carey's three sons and raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio. When he was eight years old, his father died from a brain tumor. According to his autobiography, he was born with six toes on his right foot and he played the cornet and trumpet in the marching band of James Ford Rhodes High School, from which he graduated in 1975. Drew is of Scottish heritage from both parents.[citation needed]
