| Gross: Kaitlin Colombo. Tim Burton Vanessa Angel, Votes: Later that year, she performed on the show when Johnny Carson was hosting, but she was assigned hacky, self-deprecating material she refused to use. 14,471 19,644 While Bullock has done a great job at diversifying her movie portfolio, she certainly appeared in plenty of romances in the '90s. God love Sandra Bernhard. Brendan Fraser, Patricia Arquette, At 17, he took his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took Henry Youngman was born on November 7, 1846 in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA. (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1995), 50. Today, more women comics are at the top of the field than ever before and they continue to make original and pioneering contributions to the genre. 93 min . 21 Danny DeVito | Dick Gregory was born on October 12, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Her father Charles Harmon left her mother Virginia Guynes (ne King) before Demi was born. Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assassinate international leaders at a banquet. 45,202 WebOur health savings account (HSA) can be used to pay for eligible healthcare and prescription drug expenses. 148,904 Her father Charles Harmon left her mother Virginia Guynes (ne King) before Demi was born. Arabella Field, | Goaded on by friends to try out, a producer spotted him, hired him for an appearance on a MacDonald was born Norman Gene MacDonald in Quebec City, Quebec on October 17, 1959. Afterward, Carson reportedly told his comedy booker, I dont ever want to see that waitress on my show again.. Amanda Congdon. Spike Jonze Director: Lenny's parents were divorced when he was a child. 8, (West Lafayette, Ind. This cursory narrative leaves out the many entertaining ways that lesser-known female comics made their mark in stand-up comedy, from its earliest years to present day. He is an actor and writer, known for Barnyard (2006), The Big Lebowski (1998) and Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys (1996). A stand-up comedy performer at age 10, he attended Pioneer High School in nearby San Jose, before turning professional comedian at 20. Stars: His father (Charles) committed suicide when he was 22. George Clooney, Griffins stage style is conversational, blunt, and often controversial; she is an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights, and often discusses celebrities, pop culture, and religion in her act. 289,804 He Flip Wilson was born on December 8, 1933 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. Thats worth at least 40%.). His British-born father, Myron, was a shoe clerk, his mother, Sadie, was a dancer. They have three children. | There are 007 style cars, cuties, crooks etc. Comedy. Comedy, Romance. His father, William Aloysius Maher Jr., who was of Irish Catholic descent, was a radio announcer and news editor. Taye Diggs, Votes: Two garbage men uncover a conspiracy involving illegal toxic waste dumping and decide to bring the whole operation down. Stars: Another Jewish female comic and singer, Belle Barth, was one of several bawdy female comics of the mid-20th century who were inspired by Tucker. | Gross: Comedy, Crime. Richard Schenkman To get to know his girlfriend's son, a working-class good guy volunteers to pick him up from his prep school, only to learn that he isn't the nicest young man. $11.29M, PG-13 Tyler & Harrison, Wonder Women, 20th Century Records T-413, 1973. Wes Anderson Though successful in blackface, she despised the form and sought to vary her act. 103 min She has been married to Bill Siddons since March 7, 2007. Gilbert Gottfried, Votes: Rodney Dangerfield, Chris Farley, He was a writer and actor, known for Flip (1970), The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). Lee Evans, Votes: Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture, (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, 1998), 72, 74. 98 min Ron Livingston, Action, Comedy, Crime. Alan King. Rebecca Krefting, All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), 141145. ENGL 409 Studies in a Canadian Author Alice Munro Rate. Jonathan Brandis, http://www.nytimes. $23.59M, PG 92 min Jack Mulcahy, Director: Michael has to take summer class in French, a class trip to France, to graduate high school. Bobby Slayton was born on May 25, 1955. When they find a frozen caveman in their back yard, two high school outcasts thaw him and introduce him to modern life while he in turn gets them to actually enjoy life. $2.28M, R He is an actor and producer, known for Inside Out (2015), Accepted (2006) and Man of the Year (2006). | He is an actor and writer, known for Two Weeks Notice (2002), One Fine Day (1996) and The Back-up Plan (2010). Lesbian comics such as Kate Clinton, Lea DeLaria, Karen Williams, and Marga Gomez gained fan followings as they played these spaces that catered to feminist audienceslong before Ellen DeGeneres publicly came out in 1997. Adventure, Comedy. Charlie Sheen, He is an actor and producer, known for The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), Blue Jasmine (2013) and A Star Is Born (2018). Evil. | Gross: Comedy, Sport. | Jill Sprecher Adam Sandler, Among those are the trio of Love Potion No. He is of Russian Jewish descent. Stars: Chris Young, Kate McKinnon. 1,010,410 Mark Wahlberg, | Lena Dunham. Seymour Cassel, Votes: | 81 min Stars: The last years of her career were marked by television appearances, performances at The Kennedy Center and The Playboy Club, and invitations to visit the White House under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. | Gross: com/us/media-release/hbo-0/tig-notaro- returns-hbo-animated-stand-special. Barth and another comic, Patsy Abbott, even owned their own nightclubs in Miami in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to co-creating and starring on the critically-acclaimed NBC series, Mad About You (1992), which garnered him Emmy, Golden Globe, American Comedy Award and Screen Cedric the Entertainer is an African-American comedian and actor known for being one of the Original Kings of Comedy. Penelope Spheeris Tia Carrere, Votes: 6. He died on November 11 Tell us what you think about this feature. She is the creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, which debuted on Comedy Central in 2013 and has received a Peabody Award. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a Soundtrack | George Burns was an American actor, comedian, singer, and published author. Christine Taylor, Jon Favreau, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Votes: | 226,486 , but it sat untouched for over a year. Shari Albert, Votes: For example, in, (1961), Mabley offered her take on traveling to the South: Im not goin to let the Greyhound take me down there and the bloodhounds run me back.. Though its cast was unknown when it premiered, it boosted the careers of now-A-list celebrities like Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, and Kirstie Alley. Director: Belle Barth, If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends album cover. She booked her first spot on The Tonight Show only when Helen Reddy guest-hosted in 1977. , she performed the final 20 minutes shirtless, putting her mastectomy scars on full display. John Cusack, | While the men she came up with were on their second specials, female comics were yet to film even one. The original 1970s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever. 40,608 Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal. Bill Murray, John Waters (Others included Pearl Williams and Totie Fields.) Stars: 101 min The bumbling Mr. Bean travels to America when he is given the responsibility of bringing a highly valuable painting to a Los Angeles museum. $121.70M, PG-13 2. | | Gross: He was the youngest of five children of Chana "Anna" (Siegel) and Jacob Gottlieb, a bicycle repairman. Parker Posey, com/us/media-release/hbo-0/tig-notaro- returns-hbo-animated-stand-special. (2003). (1986) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday. | Stars: David Alan Grier was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Aretas Ruth (Dudley), a schoolteacher, and William Henry Grier, a psychiatrist and writer. Despite such obstacles, Barth and her contemporaries still achieved commercial success. Fellow comic Richard Lewis told The New York Times in 1984 that Boosler was the Jackie Robinson of my generation for breaking into the ranks of male stand-ups. Bruce is said to have confessed that it was really Barth who was the sickest of them all. In fact, Barth faced similar battles as Bruce: She was arrested and fined on lewdness charges in 1953, was sued numerous times, and was eventually banned from radio and television. Fred Willard, 114 min Comedy, Drama, Romance. Christopher Guest 0000028863 00000 n * " indicates required fields. Roger Rees, Janeane, the petite woman with the acerbic wit, was born in Newton, New Jersey, in 1964, to Joan, a secretary, and Carmine Garofalo, an Exxon executive. Michelle Collins (comedian) Mo Collins. Luke Wilson, An all too uptight FBI agent must protect a larger than life mobster with a heart of gold, currently under witness protection in the suburbs. He was raised in Stony Brook, and attended SUNY Cortland, where he played fullback on the football team One of SNL's most talented alumni, comedian Dana Carvey reigned supreme during his six-season run creating some of the show's most memorable characters, including "Church Lady", "Garth" of Wayne & Garth fame, Grumpy Old Man and bodybuilding "Hans" of Hans & Franz notoriety. 29,771 Allen Covert, Votes: At the same time, mainstream stand-up comedy was experiencing a boom in popularity from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, with comedy clubs popping up across the country. Betty Michael York, Holly Hunter, charts Sign Up Log-In. Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show. (2000) and Zookeeper (2011). Following her death, Burns started appearing as a solo performer. 6.2. Web1. Macaulay Culkin, His career spanned more than 30 years. In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again. Stars: Megan Ward, Josh Kun, If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends: The Musical Comedy of Belle Barth and Pearl Williams, in Bruce Zuckerman, Josh Kun, and Lisa Ansell, The Song Is Not the Same: Jews and American Popular Music, vol. Animation, Adventure, Comedy. Director: Christopher Reid, Margaret Cho. Comedy, Drama. | Adam Sandler, Shortly after graduation, he moved to New York City where he quickly established Joan Rivers is an American talk show host, comedian, writer and actress from Brooklyn, New York. Stars: | Michael Caton-Jones $27.47M. Sophie Tucker, a Jewish singer, debuted in Vaudeville acts in 1906, performing in blackface because producers thought her too overweight and unattractive to sing as a white woman. | Olivia Williams, Christopher Martin, They have two children. / AIDS patients, following a memorable season one guest Louis C.K. Amanda Plummer, Votes: Before comedy clubs existed, Sahl began performing at the hungry i music club in San Francisco in the early 1950s. Rita Rudner. Dana Carvey, $127.18M, R Barnard Hughes, 101 min He was previously married to Jeanette Sprung. | Randall Miller 233,035 84 min Spike Jonze, Votes: Directors: | . Director: During the 1920s-1950s, Mabley played the Apollo stage more than any other performer and earned up to $10,000 per week. Reginald Hudlin JoBeth Williams, Such spaces attracted audiences that felt alienated by the misogynistic environments of mainstream music and comedy venues. The New York Times, July 29, 1984, sec. | His father was from Donegal, Ireland, and his mother was Irish-American. Crime, Thriller. His comedic style involves deadpan delivery of dialogue, a slight stammer when talking, and comedic monologues. Kohen. | Gross: | An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades. 95 min Crowned as leading the new breed of modern comedians by Time magazine in 1960, Mort Sahl is the first entertainer ever to appear on its cover. Stars: Feminist humor, Tyler claimed, gave women the opportunity to make the society oppressing them the target of their jokes, rather than themselves. | | Robert Downey Jr., 92 min Robin Bartlett, Votes: Stars: | After graduating from the Goodman Theater, Kevin (Elliott) Pollak was born in San Francisco, California, on October 30, 1957, to Robert and Elaine (Harlow) Pollak, of Jewish descent. A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. $4.35M, R Jeff Bridges, Director: Fox, Dennis Dugan Tyler and Harrison released the first explicitly feminist comedy album in 1972, . | Gross: He was a writer and actor, known for Gallagher: The Maddest (1983), Gallagher: Over Your Head (1984) and Gallagher: Overboard (1987). Stars: Peter Stormare, Votes: Tom Hanks, Director: 93 min He has been married to Dee Breuer since August 28, 1993. Stars: Herbert Ross Daniel Stern, $10.25M, PG-13 Ali Wongs 2016 special, , made headlines as the first comedy special filmed by a pregnant comic. | The special made such an impact that the Smithsonian National Museum of American History requested that Wong donate the iconic dress she wore onstage. Jack Lemmon, | 87 min 89 min | Stars: Jim Varney, Votes: $0.56M, R Director: Stars: | Owen Wilson, Williams, The Humor of Jackie Moms Mabley, 48. When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends set out on a rescue mission to save Woody before he becomes a museum toy property with his roundup gang Jessie, Prospector, and Bullseye. Stars: He is a writer and actor, known for Trainwreck (2015), A Night at the Roxbury (1998) and Cop Show (2014). She has portrayed in several films and shows such as Shrek 2, Look Who's Talking, The Smurfs and Iron Man 3. Watkins, On the Real Side, 391392. HBO recently announced it will release Notaros latest project, the first-ever fully animated stand-up special, this summer. Nia Long, | Gross: Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, | Michael Durrell, Votes: | Comedian Elayne Boosler performs on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on September 15, 1977. A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stays at the wildest house on campus. Stars: $4.60M, PG-13 She is the creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, which debuted on Comedy Central in 2013 and has received a Peabody Award. | Ben Stiller, | Gross: 6. was born on September 12, 1967 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Sandra Bernhard. Meryl Streep, Students hoping to enroll in these courses should consult the course descriptions on the Department of English website for the procedures for applying for admission. 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| Goaded on by friends to try out, a producer spotted him, hired him for an appearance on a MacDonald was born Norman Gene MacDonald in Quebec City, Quebec on October 17, 1959. Afterward, Carson reportedly told his comedy booker, I dont ever want to see that waitress on my show again.. Amanda Congdon. Spike Jonze Director: Lenny's parents were divorced when he was a child. 8, (West Lafayette, Ind. This cursory narrative leaves out the many entertaining ways that lesser-known female comics made their mark in stand-up comedy, from its earliest years to present day. He is an actor and writer, known for Barnyard (2006), The Big Lebowski (1998) and Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys (1996). A stand-up comedy performer at age 10, he attended Pioneer High School in nearby San Jose, before turning professional comedian at 20. Stars: His father (Charles) committed suicide when he was 22. George Clooney, Griffins stage style is conversational, blunt, and often controversial; she is an outspoken supporter of LGBT rights, and often discusses celebrities, pop culture, and religion in her act. 289,804 He Flip Wilson was born on December 8, 1933 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. Thats worth at least 40%.). His British-born father, Myron, was a shoe clerk, his mother, Sadie, was a dancer. They have three children. | There are 007 style cars, cuties, crooks etc. Comedy. Comedy, Romance. His father, William Aloysius Maher Jr., who was of Irish Catholic descent, was a radio announcer and news editor. Taye Diggs, Votes: Two garbage men uncover a conspiracy involving illegal toxic waste dumping and decide to bring the whole operation down. Stars: Another Jewish female comic and singer, Belle Barth, was one of several bawdy female comics of the mid-20th century who were inspired by Tucker. | Gross: Comedy, Crime. Richard Schenkman To get to know his girlfriend's son, a working-class good guy volunteers to pick him up from his prep school, only to learn that he isn't the nicest young man. $11.29M, PG-13 Tyler & Harrison, Wonder Women, 20th Century Records T-413, 1973. Wes Anderson Though successful in blackface, she despised the form and sought to vary her act. 103 min She has been married to Bill Siddons since March 7, 2007. Gilbert Gottfried, Votes: Rodney Dangerfield, Chris Farley, He was a writer and actor, known for Flip (1970), The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). Lee Evans, Votes: Talking Back: Images of Jewish Women in American Popular Culture, (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England [for] Brandeis University Press, 1998), 72, 74. 98 min Ron Livingston, Action, Comedy, Crime. Alan King. Rebecca Krefting, All Joking Aside: American Humor and Its Discontents, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014), 141145. ENGL 409 Studies in a Canadian Author Alice Munro Rate. Jonathan Brandis, http://www.nytimes. $23.59M, PG 92 min Jack Mulcahy, Director: Michael has to take summer class in French, a class trip to France, to graduate high school. Bobby Slayton was born on May 25, 1955. When they find a frozen caveman in their back yard, two high school outcasts thaw him and introduce him to modern life while he in turn gets them to actually enjoy life. $2.28M, R He is an actor and producer, known for Inside Out (2015), Accepted (2006) and Man of the Year (2006). | He is an actor and writer, known for Two Weeks Notice (2002), One Fine Day (1996) and The Back-up Plan (2010). Lesbian comics such as Kate Clinton, Lea DeLaria, Karen Williams, and Marga Gomez gained fan followings as they played these spaces that catered to feminist audienceslong before Ellen DeGeneres publicly came out in 1997. Adventure, Comedy. Charlie Sheen, He is an actor and producer, known for The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), Blue Jasmine (2013) and A Star Is Born (2018). Evil. | Gross: Comedy, Sport. | Jill Sprecher Adam Sandler, Among those are the trio of Love Potion No. He is of Russian Jewish descent. Stars: Chris Young, Kate McKinnon. 1,010,410 Mark Wahlberg, | Lena Dunham. Seymour Cassel, Votes: | 81 min Stars: The last years of her career were marked by television appearances, performances at The Kennedy Center and The Playboy Club, and invitations to visit the White House under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. | Gross: com/us/media-release/hbo-0/tig-notaro- returns-hbo-animated-stand-special. Barth and another comic, Patsy Abbott, even owned their own nightclubs in Miami in the 1950s and 1960s. In addition to co-creating and starring on the critically-acclaimed NBC series, Mad About You (1992), which garnered him Emmy, Golden Globe, American Comedy Award and Screen Cedric the Entertainer is an African-American comedian and actor known for being one of the Original Kings of Comedy. Penelope Spheeris Tia Carrere, Votes: 6. He died on November 11 Tell us what you think about this feature. She is the creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, which debuted on Comedy Central in 2013 and has received a Peabody Award. After his father died, his mother married Vernon Lynch, a foreman at a Soundtrack | George Burns was an American actor, comedian, singer, and published author. Christine Taylor, Jon Favreau, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Votes: | 226,486 , but it sat untouched for over a year. Shari Albert, Votes: For example, in, (1961), Mabley offered her take on traveling to the South: Im not goin to let the Greyhound take me down there and the bloodhounds run me back.. Though its cast was unknown when it premiered, it boosted the careers of now-A-list celebrities like Ted Danson, Woody Harrelson, Kelsey Grammer, and Kirstie Alley. Director: Belle Barth, If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends album cover. She booked her first spot on The Tonight Show only when Helen Reddy guest-hosted in 1977. , she performed the final 20 minutes shirtless, putting her mastectomy scars on full display. John Cusack, | While the men she came up with were on their second specials, female comics were yet to film even one. The original 1970s TV family is now placed in the 1990s, where they're even more square and out of place than ever. 40,608 Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a Presidential sex scandal. Bill Murray, John Waters (Others included Pearl Williams and Totie Fields.) Stars: 101 min The bumbling Mr. Bean travels to America when he is given the responsibility of bringing a highly valuable painting to a Los Angeles museum. $121.70M, PG-13 2. | | Gross: He was the youngest of five children of Chana "Anna" (Siegel) and Jacob Gottlieb, a bicycle repairman. Parker Posey, com/us/media-release/hbo-0/tig-notaro- returns-hbo-animated-stand-special. (2003). (1986) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). It's Friday, and Craig and Smokey must come up with $200 they owe a local bully or there won't be a Saturday. | Stars: David Alan Grier was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Aretas Ruth (Dudley), a schoolteacher, and William Henry Grier, a psychiatrist and writer. Despite such obstacles, Barth and her contemporaries still achieved commercial success. Fellow comic Richard Lewis told The New York Times in 1984 that Boosler was the Jackie Robinson of my generation for breaking into the ranks of male stand-ups. Bruce is said to have confessed that it was really Barth who was the sickest of them all. In fact, Barth faced similar battles as Bruce: She was arrested and fined on lewdness charges in 1953, was sued numerous times, and was eventually banned from radio and television. Fred Willard, 114 min Comedy, Drama, Romance. Christopher Guest 0000028863 00000 n * " indicates required fields. Roger Rees, Janeane, the petite woman with the acerbic wit, was born in Newton, New Jersey, in 1964, to Joan, a secretary, and Carmine Garofalo, an Exxon executive. Michelle Collins (comedian) Mo Collins. Luke Wilson, An all too uptight FBI agent must protect a larger than life mobster with a heart of gold, currently under witness protection in the suburbs. He was raised in Stony Brook, and attended SUNY Cortland, where he played fullback on the football team One of SNL's most talented alumni, comedian Dana Carvey reigned supreme during his six-season run creating some of the show's most memorable characters, including "Church Lady", "Garth" of Wayne & Garth fame, Grumpy Old Man and bodybuilding "Hans" of Hans & Franz notoriety. 29,771 Allen Covert, Votes: At the same time, mainstream stand-up comedy was experiencing a boom in popularity from the late 1970s through the early 1990s, with comedy clubs popping up across the country. Betty Michael York, Holly Hunter, charts Sign Up Log-In. Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show. (2000) and Zookeeper (2011). Following her death, Burns started appearing as a solo performer. 6.2. Web1. Macaulay Culkin, His career spanned more than 30 years. In order to inherit his fed up father's hotel empire, an immature and lazy man must repeat grades 1-12 all over again. Stars: Megan Ward, Josh Kun, If I Embarrass You, Tell Your Friends: The Musical Comedy of Belle Barth and Pearl Williams, in Bruce Zuckerman, Josh Kun, and Lisa Ansell, The Song Is Not the Same: Jews and American Popular Music, vol. Animation, Adventure, Comedy. Director: Christopher Reid, Margaret Cho. Comedy, Drama. | Adam Sandler, Shortly after graduation, he moved to New York City where he quickly established Joan Rivers is an American talk show host, comedian, writer and actress from Brooklyn, New York. Stars: | Michael Caton-Jones $27.47M. Sophie Tucker, a Jewish singer, debuted in Vaudeville acts in 1906, performing in blackface because producers thought her too overweight and unattractive to sing as a white woman. | Olivia Williams, Christopher Martin, They have two children. / AIDS patients, following a memorable season one guest Louis C.K. Amanda Plummer, Votes: Before comedy clubs existed, Sahl began performing at the hungry i music club in San Francisco in the early 1950s. Rita Rudner. Dana Carvey, $127.18M, R Barnard Hughes, 101 min He was previously married to Jeanette Sprung. | Randall Miller 233,035 84 min Spike Jonze, Votes: Directors: | . Director: During the 1920s-1950s, Mabley played the Apollo stage more than any other performer and earned up to $10,000 per week. Reginald Hudlin JoBeth Williams, Such spaces attracted audiences that felt alienated by the misogynistic environments of mainstream music and comedy venues. The New York Times, July 29, 1984, sec. | His father was from Donegal, Ireland, and his mother was Irish-American. Crime, Thriller. His comedic style involves deadpan delivery of dialogue, a slight stammer when talking, and comedic monologues. Kohen. | Gross: | An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades. 95 min Crowned as leading the new breed of modern comedians by Time magazine in 1960, Mort Sahl is the first entertainer ever to appear on its cover. Stars: Feminist humor, Tyler claimed, gave women the opportunity to make the society oppressing them the target of their jokes, rather than themselves. | | Robert Downey Jr., 92 min Robin Bartlett, Votes: Stars: | After graduating from the Goodman Theater, Kevin (Elliott) Pollak was born in San Francisco, California, on October 30, 1957, to Robert and Elaine (Harlow) Pollak, of Jewish descent. A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. $4.35M, R Jeff Bridges, Director: Fox, Dennis Dugan Tyler and Harrison released the first explicitly feminist comedy album in 1972, . | Gross: He was a writer and actor, known for Gallagher: The Maddest (1983), Gallagher: Over Your Head (1984) and Gallagher: Overboard (1987). Stars: Peter Stormare, Votes: Tom Hanks, Director: 93 min He has been married to Dee Breuer since August 28, 1993. Stars: Herbert Ross Daniel Stern, $10.25M, PG-13 Ali Wongs 2016 special, , made headlines as the first comedy special filmed by a pregnant comic. | The special made such an impact that the Smithsonian National Museum of American History requested that Wong donate the iconic dress she wore onstage. Jack Lemmon, | 87 min 89 min | Stars: Jim Varney, Votes: $0.56M, R Director: Stars: | Owen Wilson, Williams, The Humor of Jackie Moms Mabley, 48. When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends set out on a rescue mission to save Woody before he becomes a museum toy property with his roundup gang Jessie, Prospector, and Bullseye. Stars: He is a writer and actor, known for Trainwreck (2015), A Night at the Roxbury (1998) and Cop Show (2014). She has portrayed in several films and shows such as Shrek 2, Look Who's Talking, The Smurfs and Iron Man 3. Watkins, On the Real Side, 391392. HBO recently announced it will release Notaros latest project, the first-ever fully animated stand-up special, this summer. Nia Long, | Gross: Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, | Michael Durrell, Votes: | Comedian Elayne Boosler performs on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on September 15, 1977. A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stays at the wildest house on campus. Stars: $4.60M, PG-13 She is the creator, co-producer, co-writer and star of the sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer, which debuted on Comedy Central in 2013 and has received a Peabody Award. | Ben Stiller, | Gross: 6. was born on September 12, 1967 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. Sandra Bernhard. Meryl Streep, Students hoping to enroll in these courses should consult the course descriptions on the Department of English website for the procedures for applying for admission. 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