Paul Provenza (born July 31, 1957) is an actor, comedian, filmmaker, and self-professed skeptic currently based in Los Angeles.

Provenza was born and grew up in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx, New York City, and graduated in 1975 from the Bronx High School of Science. In high school, he started performing stand-up comedy, making his stage debut at age 17 at the original The Improv in Manhattan. He continued performing while attending the University of Pennsylvania, taking a year's leave of absence to study in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. While at RADA, he joined a classical repertory theatre group, becoming one of few Americans to perform the role of Romeo on the London stage. He graduated in 1979 from the University of Pennsylvania, the year it awarded its first Theatre Arts degree. At Penn, he wrote for the Pennsylvania Punch Bowl and was a cast member of the Mask and Wig Club, where he has returned numerous times to perform in the annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival.

James "Jim" Jefferies (born 22 November 1950 in Musselburgh) is a Scottish football former player and manager currently at Dunfermline Athletic. Jefferies played for Heart of Midlothian for almost his whole playing career and enjoyed a successful first managerial spell with the club, winning the 1998 Scottish Cup. Jefferies has also managed Gala Fairydean, Berwick Rangers, Falkirk, Bradford City and Kilmarnock.

Jefferies made more than 300 competitive appearances for Heart of Midlothian. The main highlight of his playing career was playing in the 1976 Scottish Cup Final, which Hearts lost 3–1 to Rangers. Jefferies eventually left Hearts in 1981, and spent the last two seasons of his career with Berwick Rangers.

Jefferies left Berwick in 1983 to become a manager at East of Scotland Football League club Gala Fairydean, but returned to the club to begin his senior managerial career in September 1988. Despite a great deal of financial turmoil during that time, he turned the struggling team around to the extent that they set a club record of 21 games unbeaten in the league during season 1988–89. In the 1990 close season Jefferies took over at Falkirk, guiding them to the Scottish First Division title (and promotion to the Scottish Premier Division) in 1991 and 1994. Falkirk also won the Scottish Challenge Cup in 1993.

Eddie Ifft (b. 1974 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American stand-up comedian and sitcom writer. He lives in Venice, California.

Ifft graduated with honors from Fox Chapel Area High School in 1992. After graduation from the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a brother of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity and competed in Track and Field, he moved to New York City and started doing stand-up comedy on the club circuit. He performed on many stand-up comedy specials including Comedy Central's Premium Blend, NBC's Late Friday Night, BET's Comic View, ABC's Comics Unleashed, NBC's Last Comic Standing, and in July 2001 he performed at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival in "New Faces." In August 2008 he filmed his own 1/2 hour special for Comedy Central (Comedy Central Presents). He also appeared in many national commercials, including, Nokia, KFC and Arby's. He was named one of the 5 finalists in the MySpace/TBS Stand-Up or Sit-Down Competition.

Ifft briefly worked on the Queen Latifah Show, doing man-on-the-street segments and has been featured on many other TV shows including Fuel TV's Daily Habit and Showtime's "The Green Room" with Paul Provenza.