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Freddy Soto
 
Freddy Soto was born in El Paso Texas in 1970. He started out as a limousine driver for Richard Pryor. After making $5 from his first paying stand-up gig at St. Mark's Jazz Club in Venice, Soto became the doorman at the Comedy Store in West Hollywood and made $25 a night. He eventually headlined comedy clubs, opened for singer Marc Anthony on a 30-city tour, and appeared on late-night talk shows. Soto toured the nation in 2001 and 2002 as one of the Three Amigos including Hispanic comics Pablo Francisco and Carlos Mencia and a DVD of the concert tour was released by Miramax in May. Freddy died on July 10th, 2005 in his sleep. He is survived by his wife and daughter.

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Mitch Hedberg
 
Mitch Hedberg was born in St. Paul Minnesota on February 24th, 1968 to Arne and Mary Hedberg. He was raised with his parents and his two sisters Wendy and Angie. Mitch played in a death metal band with his friends as a teen, but Mitch wanted to do comedy. He started preforming stand-up in clubs and bars. He started doing television performances as well on Premium Blend and he got his own Comedy Central Presents in 1999. Mitch didn't just do stand-up. He played Lee in Los Enchiladas!, as well as directing and producing it, and made appearances on show such as Ed and That 70s Show. Mitch got married in 1999 to Lynn Shawcroft. Mitch also had done various voices on Home Movies. Mitch died in his sleep on March 30th, 2005 in Livingston New Jersey of a heart failure. Before he died he appeared in the movie Lords of Dogtown as the Urethane wheels guy. Mitch is my idol and he is very missed by his family, his friends and his fans. R.I.P.
 
 
 
 
 

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Dom Joly at his Best!
 
Trigger Happy Tv is the highlight of Dom Joly's entertainment career. The shows is extemely funny and will have laughing. Its much like Candid Camera only without a host or an audience. Dom Joly goes out a fools the english public with strange gags that leave people angry or confused or laughing. Some of his characters are the big cell phone guy and the man from Switzerland. The show also has large goofy mascots. Travis Draft, Jerry Minor and Jessica Makinson came to the show in 2003 doing gags in America along with Dom Joly. The show ended later on that year because of some legal problems but Comedy Central still shows reruns of this great hidden camera show.

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Clipboards, Yoga and Fig Newtons
 
Brian Regan gets up on stage in Comedy Central Presents: Brian Regan to discuss his problems with his health and diet. He put everything into perfect, yet funny words that will have you laughing all day. Yoga isn't the way to go with him. Niether is going to the eye doctor and having to decide if lends number one is better then lends number two. He also discusses the way people have been dieting to stay fit by eating lemon rinds and steamed raisin skins. Thats definitly not for him. He rather eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve while watching a strong man show with his favorite pillow. I don't want to give anymore away so laugh it up with Brian Regan's half hour comedy special, Comedy Central Presents: Brian Regan.
 
 
 
 

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Tom Kenny
 
Tom Kenny grew up in East Syracuse, New York. When Tom was young he was into comic books, drawing funny pictures and collecting records. Tom Turned to stand-up comedy in Boston and San Francisco. This led to appearances on every cable show spawned by the stand-up epidemic of the 80's and 90's as well as acting on Mr. Show with Bob and David on HBO and does many voices for cartoons, his most famous being Spongebob Squarepants, and various voices on Futurama, Dilbert, Fairly Oddparents and many others. Kenny also has done stand-up on Premium Blend and a monologue on Mad Tv.

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Debra Wilson

Debra was born on April 20, 1970 in Queens, New York. She started doing def comedy in the early 90s on television. The peak of her entertaining career was on Mad Tv. Debra became one of the eight original cast members in 1995. She loved working on the show. While she was on the show, she also did work in movies and other TV shows. She appeared in B*A*P*S and did a voice on The Mr. Potato Head Show. She left Mad Tv in 2003 after being the only original cast member left on the show for the past two seasons. She has made appearances on Mad Tv and is still working in movies.

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Way Beyond Two Thumbs Up!

Chappelle's Show is laugh out loud funny. Dave Chappelle and the rest of his writers really prove a point or make fun of current events or even past events going on in the world. Dave has great characters such as Tyrone Bridges, a "crackhead" who has gone out of his mind. Dave also does good celebrity impressions, his most famous being his Rick James impression.Dave always has good material with the sketches and his stand-up on the show. Some other cast members on the show are Charles Q. Murphy, Billy Burr and Randy Pearlstein. His cast really help out Dave with sketches. Charles Murphey is my favorite cast member. Charlie Murphy's True Hollywood Stories is where Dave's Rick James impression came from. Most episodes Dave has a musical guest at the end of the show. Usually the guests are rap or hip-hop musicians. Some well know performers like Snoop Dogg and Busta Rhymes have preformed of the show. There has been word that Chappelle's Show might be over and I would be very upset if that happened. Its always a party on Chappelle's Show and it always will be.

Freddy Soto

Wanda Does It All!
 
This was not completely a reality show. They used actors and actresses for some roles, but it still had Wanda's smart-ass personality. They did not take away the way she is, a comedian who likes to tell it like it is. Wanda can really make you laugh. Her manager Tim Brewer and her friend Sue would always be around, getting her out of trouble since shes always causing it. Sometimes she would do stuff she shouldn't have been doing. Personally, my favorite episode is when Wanda became a repo woman. She had to tow cars from people who didn't pay for the automobile. Funniest episode! Wanda Does It is on Comedy Central.

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Geoffrey Hughes
                                                        
Geoffrey Hughes was born on Feburary 2, 1944. He started his career in repertory at the Victoria Theatre in Stoke on Trent. This was followed by his first West End production, the Lionel Bart and Alun Owen musical, Maggie May. Among his many other appearances on television are, The Saint, Shadows of Fear, 7 Cars, Flying Lady, Dr. Who, Spender, Boon and others. He played Trinculo in an all filmed version of the Tempest for the BBC and Squire Clodpoll in Good Friday 1663, one of Channel Four's new avant-garde operas. His comedy appearances on TV include, The Likely Lads, Please Sir, Curry and Chips, and The Upper Hand and Onslow, the less than salubrious brother in law of Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC comedy series Keeping Up Appearances. He is currently playing Twiggy in a new drama/comedy series, The Royle Family. Geoffrey's film credits include, The Bofors Gun, Adolf Hitler My Part in his Downfall, Needle, The Man from the Pru and others. He was also the voice of Paul McCartney in the Beatles' cartoon film Yellow Submarine. His off-stage interests are Sailing, Golf Cricket, Music, Trees, and Beer. Born and brought up in Liverpool he now lives in Northamptonshire.
 

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Christian Duguay
 
Born in Standford, California and raised in Readfield, Maine, Christian Duguay attend the Berklee College of Music where he majored in Jazz Theory and Composition. After three years of playing the guitar in a tiny practice room, he decided that he wanted to be a stand-up comedian. After moving to California, Christian enrolled in the film school at Cal State University Northridge, majoring in screen writing. He performed with the improv comedy group Legitimate Freaks, and then enrolled in the Groundlings Theater, where he took classes for three years and eventually was elected to the Groundlings Sunday Company. Christian was a cast member on Mad Tv, only on season six. He has also made appearances on Arrested Development and Yes Dear.

Brian Regan

 
 
The Best Roadtrip Movie
 
If you have read reviews on Rolling Kansas that say the movie was terrible, I say they're all wrong. Rolling Kansas is a fantastic movie. Its about five guys, three of them brothers, from Texas on there way to a magical forest of marijuana in Kansas that the three brother's parents had a map of. The oldest one, Dick, just went through a divorce, losing alot of his possesions and his T-shirt business is failing due to his co-worker, Bill. Very determaned, he gets the idea for the trip, to harvest and sell the drugs for money. He buys a bad car, some bad tools for this bad idea. They meet alot of different kinds of people along the way. When they get there they have a little trouble but get help from a new friend they meet up a tree. If you want to know the rest of the story, see this great movie starring James Roday, Sam Huntington, Charlie Finn, Jay Paulson, Ryan McDow and Rip Torn.
 

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Jon Stewart
 
A New Jersey native, Jon Stewart is considered one of America's top social and comedic voices. From his anchor chair of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he has breathed new life into a show that hadn't even seemed to need it. Since taking over as the anchorman of The Daily Show for Craig Kilborn in January 1999, Stewart's presence has seen higher ratings and awareness for himself and Comedy Central. With an election year, Stewart and The Daily Show were poised to lead the way to the White House as the torch bearers of Comedy Central's Indecision 2000 election coverage. Indecision 2000 covered the elections, debates and candidates from the Iowa Caucus and New Hampshire primary straight through to the National Conventions and culminated on Election Night with a one-hour special. Prior to taking over The Daily Show, Stewart's most recent television work was on HBO's critically acclaimed series-within-a-series, The Larry Sanders Show, playing a character he should know very well, himself. The final season saw, among other things, Stewart seemingly being groomed to take over the fictitious late-night throne from the perpetually paranoid Larry Sanders. Stewart also served as a creative consultant on the series.

Debra Wilson

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