Chauna chavaria. Plate from Genera of Birds

George Robert Gray FRS (8 July 1808 - 6 May 1872) was an English zoologist and author, and head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, now the Natural History Museum, in London for forty-one years. He was the younger brother of John Edward Gray and the son of the botanist Samuel Frederick Gray.

George Gray's most important publication was his Genera of Birds (1844–49), illustrated by David William Mitchell and Joseph Wolf, which included 46,000 references.

Biography[link]

He was born in Chelsea, London to Samuel Frederick Gray, naturalist and pharmacologist. He was educated at Merchant Taylor's School.^[1]

Gray started at the British Museum as Assistant Keeper of the Zoology Branch in 1831.

Plate 8 from The Monograph of the Genus Phasma

He began by cataloguing insects, and published an Entomology of Australia (1833) and contributed the entomogical section to an English edition of Georges Cuvier's Animal Kingdom. Gray described many species of Lepidoptera.

In 1833, he was a founder of what became the Royal Entomological Society of London.

Gray's original description of the Gray's Grasshopper Warbler, which was named for him, appeared in 1860. The specimen had been collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in the Moluccas.

Works[link]

• The Entomology of Australia, in a series of Monographs. Part I. The Monograph of the Genus Phasma. London.
• 1831 The Zoological Miscellany Zool. Miscell. (1): [1] 1-40
• 1846 Descriptions and Figures of some new Lepidopterous Insects chiefly from Nepal. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
• 1852 Catalogue of Lepidopterous Insects in the British Museum. Part 1. Papilionidae. [1853 Jan], "1852" iii + 84pp., 13pls.
• 1871 A fasciculus of the Birds of China. London, Taylor and Francis.
• with Richard Bowdler Sharpe, The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Erebus & HMS Terror. Birds of New Zealand., 1875. The revised edition of Gray (1846) (1875).

See also[link]

• European and American voyages of scientific exploration

External links[link]

• Plates and text from Gray's 1833 Monograph on Phasmidae
• BHL Genera of Birds 1855 edition. No plates

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References[link]

• Biographies for Birdwatchers, Mearns and Mearns, ISBN 0-12-487422-3

Robert Gray may refer to:

• Robert Gray (bishop of Bristol) (1762–1834), father of the Bishop of Cape Town
• Robert Gray (bishop of Cape Town) (1809–1872), first Anglican Bishop of Cape Town
• Robert Gray (sea captain) (1755–1806), American merchant sea-captain and explorer
• Robert Gray (poet) (born 1945), Australian poet
• Robbie Gray (born 1988), Australian rules footballer
• Robert Hampton Gray (1917–1945), Canadian naval officer, pilot, and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Robert Isaac Dey Gray ((c. 1772–1804), Canadian politician
• Robert Gray (writer), executive producer of The Paul O'Grady Show and Like It Is
• Robert Whytlaw-Gray (1877–1958), English chemist
• Robert Gray (actor) (born 1945), actor in Armed and Dangerous
• Robert M. Gray (born 1943), American information theorist
• Robert Gray (accountancy academic) (born 1948), British social and environmental accounting theorist
• Robert Gray (ornithologist) (1825–1887), Scottish ornithologist
• Robert Keith Gray, Republican activist and public relations executive
• Robert Gray (businessperson) (born 1956), advertising entrepreneur and venture capitalist
• Robert K. Gray (born 1922), U.S. Navy officer and government official
• Bob Gray (footballer) (born 1923), English football goalkeeper
• Bob Gray (soccer), head men's soccer coach at Marshall University
• Bobby Gray (boxer), boxer from San Jose, California
• Bobby Gray (American football) (born 1978), former safety in the National Football League
• Rob Gray (born 1962), Canadian production designer
• The true name of "It" from Stephen King's novel It

See also[link]

• R. Henry Grey (1891–1934), American silent film actor who was sometimes credited as Robert Gray
• Robert Grey (disambiguation)

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Robert Elms (born 12 June 1959) is an English writer and broadcaster. Elms was a writer for The Face magazine in the 1980s, and has a self-confessed love of clothes and fashion. His book The Way We Wore, charts the changing fashions of his own youth, linking them with the social history of the times.^[1][2]

Education[link]

Elms was born in Hendon and educated at Orange Hill Grammar School for Boys, a state grammar school on Abbots Road in the North West London suburb of Burnt Oak, predominantly in the London Borough of Barnet, south of Edgware, after passing the Eleven Plus examination for state school pupils.^[3] From there Elms studied at the London School of Economics in Central London.

Life and career[link]

Whilst still at the LSE, Elms became deeply involved in the 'club scene' which was developing in London suburbs.^[3] He became a columnist for both The Face and NME, writing on both music and fashion.^[4] He championed the band Spandau Ballet, having suggested their name, and used to introduce the group at early concerts, performing poetry readings.^[4][5] Elms also worked as a DJ at clubs including Palladium in New York.^[6] Elms was a chronicler of the New Romantic movement of the early 1980s,^[3] which saw him become a popular interview choice for the broadcast media. Elms then developed a broadcasting career of his own, working in both radio and television. He was a contributor to Loose Ends (BBC Radio 4) and presented the Channel 4 travel series Travelog during the 1990s.^[7] In 1989 his first novel was published, In Search Of The Crack by Penguin Books.

Elms served as a patron for the Arts Council's Architecture Week until the demise of the event in 2007.^[8]

Current activities[link]

Elms, as of August 2010, broadcasts a long running radio show on BBC London 94.9 (formerly GLR), in 1999 being referred to as "its top presenter".^[9] The show features reports, discussions, and call-ins about Greater London, the history, architecture, geography, city planning, language of London, in short, the minutiae of London. Guests who are acknowledged experts in their fields of study appear on a regular basis. An extract of the shows is published as a podcast every week.

Personal life[link]

In the 1980s he squatted with Sade Adu in Tottenham.^[10] In around 1996, Elms moved to Camden, an area of London he promotes,^[11] and where he has renovated a Georgian house. He lives there with his wife Christina, who is British-born Chinese, and their children Alice, Alfie and Maude.^[12] Elms is a Queens Park Rangers F.C fan.

Bibliography[link]

• In Search Of The Crack (1989) Penguin Books Ltd ISBN 0-14-011276-6
• Spain - A Portrait After The General (1992) William Heinemann Ltd ISBN 0-434-22824-9
• The Way We Wore: A Life in Threads (2006) Picador ISBN 0-330-42033-X

References[link]

External links[link]

• BBC London page

Edward (Ed) Gray (born September 27, 1975 in Riverside, California) is an American former professional basketball player who was selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the first round (22nd overall pick) of the 1997 NBA Draft. His two-year career in Atlanta was marked by injury, inconsistent play, and off-court troubles.

Gray began his college career at the College of Southern Idaho then transferred to the University of Tennessee and eventually transferred to the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 1997 Pac-10 Player of the Year during his senior season at Cal averaging 24.8 ppg.

External links[link]

• Career stats @ basketball-reference.com

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Gilbert Gottfried
Gottfried at the Writers Guild of America East Solidarity Rally in Washington Square in 2007
Born	(1955-02-28) February 28, 1955 (age 57) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up, film, television
Nationality	American
Years active	1980–present
Genres	Satire, crude humor, blue comedy, improvisational comedy, black comedy, insult comedy
Subject(s)	Religion, race relations, racism, pop culture, sex
Spouse	Dara Kravitz (2007–present)
Notable works and roles	Saturday Night Live Comedy Central Roasts Host of USA Up All Night Mr. Peabody in Problem Child Iago in Aladdin Digit in Cyberchase Aflac Duck in the Aflac commercials

Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28, 1955) is an American actor, voice actor and stand-up comedian best known for his trademark comedic persona of speaking in a loud, grating tone of voice.^[1] He has played numerous roles in film and television, perhaps most notably voicing the parrot Iago in Disney's Aladdin (1992), and co-starred in the Problem Child movies. He is also known for voicing Digit in the children's cartoon/educational math-based show Cyberchase, the Aflac duck until 2011 and Marley the alligator in Winnie the Pooh.

Early life[link]

Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1955, Gottfried is the youngest of three children.^[2][3]

Career[link]

Early career (1980–1994)[link]

At age fifteen, Gilbert Gottfried began doing amateur stand-up in New York City and, after a few years, became known^{[by whom?]} as "the comedian's comedian."^[4] In 1980, the popular NBC late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live was being retooled with a new staff and new comedians; the producers noticed Gottfried and hired him as a cast member. During the 1980–1981 season, Gottfried's persona in SNL sketches was very different from his later characterization: he rarely (if ever) spoke in his trademark screeching, obnoxious voice and never squinted. During his 12-episode stint, he was given very little airtime and seldom used in sketches. Gottfried recalls a low point was having to play a corpse in a sketch about a sports organist hired to play inappropriate music at a funeral. Despite this, he had one recurring character (Leo Waxman, husband to Denny Dillon's Pinky Waxman on the recurring talk show sketch, "What's It All About?") and two celebrity impersonations: David A. Stockman and controversial film director Roman Polanski.

Although not a regular, he also appeared in the short-lived 1992 TV series The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys and voiced crazed dentist "Dr. Bender" and his son Wendell on the show The Fairly OddParents and the voice of Jerry the Belly Button Elf on Ren and Stimpy. He is notably known for his voice-overs as ducks or other birds—when asked how he prepared for his role of Iago in Aladdin, he said "I did the whole DeNiro thing. I moved to South America! I lived in the trees!" He was the host of the Saturday edition of USA Up All Night. Rhonda Shear hosted the Friday version.

Voice acting, television and films (1999–2001)[link]

Gottfried at the 1991 Emmy Awards

He also appeared as a semi-regular in the most recent version of Hollywood Squares. He is best remembered for a 1999 episode in which a single round of play took up the entire half-hour. The contestants had each won four stars/squares, leaving Gottfried as the last square available. Because either player could win upon capturing Gottfried's square, they could not win on their competitor's wrong response and had to win it themselves. The contestants alternated agreeing or disagreeing about whether Gottfried was bluffing an answer—and missed six consecutive tries. Five of those times he admonished the contestant with an increasingly incredulous "YOU FOOL!", mimicking Penn Jillette and his partner Teller. The seventh time he and the contestant agreed, and they finally won the square and the game. This segment has been featured on game show blooper programs and it is popular on YouTube.

Gottfried has provided the voice of the duck in the AFLAC commercials and Digit in the math-mystery cartoon Cyberchase on PBS Kids GO!, as well as the magical imp Mr. Mxyzptlk on Superman: The Animated Series. He also played a nasty wisecracking criminal genius named "Nick-Nack" who used toys to commit crimes on two episodes of the TV series Superboy (he also co-wrote an issue of the tie-in Superboy: The Comic Book which featured the origin of his character, Nick-Nack). Gottfried made regular appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Recent work (2004–present)[link]

In 2004 Comedy Central featured his stand up material for an animated series called Shorties Watchin' Shorties.^[5] Gottfried was part of an online advertising campaign for Microsoft's Office XP software, showing, in a series of Flash-animated cartoons, that the Clippy office assistant would be removed. In 2006, Gottfried topped the Boston Phoenix's tongue-in-cheek list of the world's 100 Unsexiest Men. In April 2006, Gottfried performed with the University of Pennsylvania's Mask and Wig Club in their annual Intercollegiate Comedy Festival. Also in 2006, he made an appearance on the Let's Make a Deal portion of Gameshow Marathon (as a baby in a large high chair, he says "Hey Ricki, I think I need my diaper changed!"), and in the Dodge Viper in the big deal (where he tells the contestants "What were you thinking?!" because neither one picked it). He also guest-starred in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Santa Claus in the one-hour Christmas Special. He voiced Rick Platypus in an episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey entitled "That Darn Platypus". Furthermore, Gottfried appeared as Peter's horse in an episode of Family Guy entitled "Boys Do Cry". He also guest-starred in Hannah Montana as Barny Bittmen. In January 2009, Gottfried worked again with David Faustino for an episode of Faustino's show Star-ving.^[6] In 2011, Gottfried appeared in the episode "Lost Traveler" on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Leo Gerber, a sarcastic computer professional working for the NYPD's Technical Assistance Response Unit, which producer Warren Leight said could become a recurring character.^[7]

Controversy[link]

9/11 joke[link]

During his monologue at a Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner three weeks after the September 11 attacks, Gottfried joked that he had intended to catch a plane, but couldn't get a direct flight because "they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first." This was one of the first public examples of 9/11 humor. Audience members responded with hisses and a cry of "Too soon!". Gottfried then abandoned his prepared remarks and launched into the venerable Aristocrats joke, winning back the audience.^[8] Penn Jillette and Paul Provenza used Gottfried's monologue as a segment in their 2005 film, The Aristocrats.^[9]

Japanese tsunami jokes[link]

In March 2011, Gottfried made jokes on his Twitter account in reference to the earthquake disaster in Japan. He later deleted the tweets and apologized. Aflac, which does 75% of its business in Japan, dismissed Gottfried on March 14, 2011 and announced a casting call for his replacement as the voice of its duck mascot.^[10] He was replaced by Daniel McKeague on April 26, 2011.^[11]

Filmography[link]

• Saturday Night Live: various sketches (1980–1981)
• Beverly Hills Cop II: Sidney Bernstein (1987)
• Hot to Trot: Dentist (1988)
• The Adventures of Ford Fairlane: Johnny Crunch (1990)
• Look Who's Talking Too: Joey (1990)
• Superboy: Nick-Nack (1990)
• Problem Child: Mr. Peabody (1990)
• Problem Child 2: Mr. Peabody (1991)
• Night Court (TV series): as Oscar Brown (1991)
• Aladdin: Iago the Parrot (voice) (1992)
• Highway to Hell: Hitler (1992)
• Bonkers: Two-Bits (1993–1995)
• Problem Child (TV series): Mr. Peabody (1993)
• The Return of Jafar: Iago the Parrot (voice) (1994)
• Thumbelina: Berkeley Beetle (voice) (1994)
• Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas: Burt Banner (1994)
• Double Dragon (1994)
• Beavis and Butthead: Gus Baker (1994)
• "The Ren and Stimpy Show" Jerry the Bellybutton Elf/ Porkchop Monster (voice) (1994)
• Duckman: (recurring role) Art DeSalvo (1994–1997)
• Married... With Children: Ship Happens: Part 2 (1995)
• Adventures in Wonderland (TV series) : Mike McNasty (1995)
• Problem Child 3: Junior in Love: Dr. Peabody (1995)
• The Cosby Show patient (1987)
• Bump in the Night: Stink Bug (1995)
• Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat: Additional Characters (1995–1996)
• Aladdin (TV series): Iago the Parrot (1994–1995)
• Aladdin and the King of Thieves: Iago the Parrot (1996)
• Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Roy (1996)
• In the House: Mr. Comstock (1996)
• Superman: The Animated Series: Mr Mxyzptlk (1996–2000)
• Adventures from the Book of Virtues (1996)
• Big Bag (Troubles the Cat segment) (1996)
• Def Jam's How to Be a Player (1997)
• Bear in the Big Blue House: Large Possum (voice) (1997)
• Noddy: Jack Frost (1998)
• Hercules: Cilon (1998)
• Dr. Dolittle: Compulsive Dog (voice) (1998)
• Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist (TV series): As himself in episodes 503 and 506 (1999)
• Clerks: The Animated Series: the voice of Jerry Seinfeld and Patrick Swayze (2000)
• Mad TV: special appearance, one episode (1997)
• Timon & Pumbaa (TV series): The Woodpecker
• Fairly Odd Parents: Dr. Bender/Wendel (2001–2005)
• Disney's House of Mouse and Mickey's House of Villains: Iago the Parrot
• Kingdom Hearts: Iago the Parrot (2002)
• Kingdom Hearts II: Iago the Parrot (2006)
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Season 3, Episode: Last Laugh:Comic (2003)
• Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Duck (2004)
• Celebrity Deathmatch :As himself in episode Gottfried in the Arena
• Cyberchase: Digit and Widget (2002–present)
• The Aristocrats (2005)
• Back by Midnight (2002): Security Guard
• Becker: A plastic surgeon
• Meet Wally Sparks: Harry Karp
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: various sketches
• Son of the Beach: Noccus Johnstein in both "Chip's A Goy" and Hamm Stroker's Suck My Blood:(2002)
• VH1's Celebrity Paranormal Project and I Love Toys
• Billy and Mandy Save Christmas: Santa Claus (voice)
• Farce of the Penguins: "I'm Freezing My Nuts Off" penguin (voice) (2007)
• Family Guy: Peter's horse (voice)
• My Gym Partner's a Monkey: Rick Platypus (voice)
• El Tigre:The Adventures of Manny Rivera: El Cerdo (voice)
• Hannah Montana Season 2 Episode "(We're So Sorry) Uncle Earl": Barney Bitman (2008)
• VH1's I Love the New Millennium 4 Episodes (2008)
• The Emperor's New School 2.season 11 Episodes (12.03.2007)
• The Comedy Central Roast: Bob Saget (2008)
• The Replacements: Himself (2008)
• Back at the Barnyard: Barn Buddy (2008)
• Gilbert Gottfried: Dirty Jokes (1 hour Showtime Special) (2008) – live stand-up performance in Manhattan, NY. Gottfried promises 'the dirtiest joke ever told'
• The Lindabury Story (2009)
• The View – Horny the Dwarf (Joy's Month in ReView)
• The Weird Al Show: himself
• Pyramid: Himself (Celebrity Guest)
• Hollywood Squares: Himself (Regular)
• The Comedy Central Roast: Joan Rivers (2009)
• Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy Himself (2009)
• Back at the Barnyard: Security System (2009)
• Jack and the Beanstalk (2010 Film): Grayson (2010)
• 'Til Death Guest starred as Tommy (2010)
• Stripperland (2010)
• The Comedy Central Roast: David Hasselhoff (2010)
• Robotomy: Tickle Me Psycho (2010)
• The Comedy Central Roast: Donald Trump (2011)
• Law & Order: SVU (2011)
• Winnie the Pooh: Marley the friendly alligator (2011)

Commercials[link]

• Aflac: Voice of the Aflac Duck (2000–2011)
• ShoeDini (voiceover): The ShoeDini is, as he describes it in the commercial, "a shoe horn on a stick."
• Public Service Announcement: He is the voice of Seymour Smoke, the talking smoke detector.
• Voiced the talking shadow puppet mascot in a series of Subway commercials in 2000.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Gilbert Gottfried at the Internet Movie Database
• The Official Site of Gilbert Gottfried