Leonard Alfred Schneider was an American stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist who was born October 13, 1925 and better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce.

He was famous for his open, free-style and critical type of comedy which integrated politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His early comedy career  included writing the screenplays for Dance Hall Racket in 1953, Dream Follies and The Rocket Man in 1954. He also released four albums of original material on Berkeley-based Fantasy Records; with rants, comic routines, and satirical interviews on the themes that made him famous:jazz, moral philosophy, politics, patriotism, religion, law, drugs, abortion, the Ku Klux Klan and Jewishness.

With Lenny's growing fame, he appeared on the nationally televised Steve Allen Show, where he made his debut with an unscripted comment on the recent marriage of Elizabeth Taylor to Eddie Fisher. He also gave a famous performance at Carnegie Hall in New York which was recorded and later released as a three-disc set, titled The Carnegie Hall Concert.

Lenny also have a lot of struggles in his personal life. It was  was marked by substance abuse and promiscuity.  His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first in New York State history. This trial was viewed as a landmark trial for freedom of speech in US. He also have been arrested numerous times which led to his downfall and rendered him nearly unbookable and later on blacklisted by nearly every comedy club in America. In 1966, Lenny Bruce was found naked and dead of a morphine overdose on his toilet in Hollywood Hills.

Jason Rouse is an actor and writer, known for Russell Peter Presents (2009), The Naughty Show  (2007) and Zulu comedy galla '10 (2010). He is also a stand-up comedian turning the mainstream of comdey world upside down. He has been touring the clubs and festivals all over the world over the last decade.

Rouse has made it his mission bring a new chapter in stand up comedy. Rouse have received awards:

NOW Magazine: NOW Reader’s Poll Award for Best

Local Stand-Up Comedian, 2002

Canadian Organziation of Campus

Activities (COCA): Campus Entertainment Award for

Comedy Perfomer, 2001

Gemini Award: Best Individual Performance in

Comedy Program or Series for

Comedy Now! Season 4: Jason

Rouse– 2001

Worldfest International Film Festival – Silver Award: Jason Rouse (Houston) – 2001

Nominated for Phil Hartman Comedy Award – 2001

Humber College Comedy Writing and Performance Scholarship –2000

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William Melvin "Bill" Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, satirist, social critic and musician born on December 16, 1961. Most of his material displays dark comedy encompassing a wide range of social issues as well as religion, politics, and philosophy. He criticized consumerism, superficiality, mediocrity, and banality within the media and popular culture.

He began performing at the Comedy Workshop in Houston, Texas at the age of 16. He toured the United States during the 1980's and made a number of television appearances. It was in the UK that he became significantly famous, filling large venues during his 1991 tour.

Hicks died at the age of 32 on February 26, 1994 because of pancreatic cancer in Little Rock, Arkansas. He developed a substantial "cult" following after a series of posthumous album releases which gained a significant measure of acclaim in creative circles. He was voted the fourth greatest stand-up comic on Channel 4's  list of the UK's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups in 2007, and he maintained that ranking on the 2010 list.

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was an American stand-up comedian, actor, film director, writer, social critic, satirist and MC known for intransigent examinations of  racism and topical contemporary issues employing colorful vulgarities, and profanity, as well as racial epithets.

He is well famous for trenchant observations and storytelling style and widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential stand-up comedians of all time. He was branded “The Picasso of our profession” by Jerry Seinfield and also “the seminal comedian of the last 50 years” by Bob Bewhart.  This legacy can be ascribed, in character, to the unwonted stage of intimacy Pryor brought to yield on his comedy. "Richard Pryor drew the line between comedy and tragedy as thin as one could possibly paint it." as Bill Cosby once verbally expressed his praise to Pryor.

Many awards were presented to him including an Emmy Award (1973), and five Grammy Awards (1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, and 1982).  He also won two American Academy of Humor awards and the Writers Guild of America Award in 1974 and the first ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humorachievement, no one can ever wonder why Pryor is listed at Number 1 on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians.

The place Pryor is most recollected for and most revered since Pryor died after suffering a heart attack in December 2005, and is on stage performing stand-up comedy routines that made him one of the most consequential, influential and reverenced stand-up comedian of all time.

Roy 'Chubby' Brown is a stand-up comedian born in England on February 3, 1945. He is infamous for his sarcastic blue humour and outrageously racist, sexist and homophobic gags. He was described as most impertinent comedian. It's a distinction that's meant he's rarely been allowed to perform on TV that turned out to be more of a blessing than a curse as he's done real comfortably for himself off the back of his fans buying his videos, DVDs, audio cassettes and show tickets. The controversial nature of his act magnetized inculpation's that his comedy style is outdated whilst also being described as "the most important comedian of the past 25 years".

Brown's figure is characterised by a clown-like stage costume: flying helmet and goggles, a multicoloured patchwork jacket and trousers, a white shirt, a red bow tie and moccasin slippers. "You fat bastard!" is usually shouted repeatedly by his audience on his typical stand-up show to which he dances and when he approaches the microphone, he will either say "Fuck off!" or "How Did You Know It Was Fucking Me!". Brown released a film called U.F.O starring himself as Roger Lloyd Pack abducted by aliens while staying in a hotel in Blackpool during his live shows.

One of his best known songs is a cover version of  "Living Next Door to Alice" recorded with Smokie titled "Living Next Door to Alice (Who the Fuck is Alice?)". He released a solo single called "A Rocking Good Christmas" (1996) and also released two albums, Take Fat and Party (1995) and Fat Out of Hell (1996).

Anthony Jeselnik is a stand-up comedian from America and was born December 22, 1978. He is famous for his dark comedy style emphasizing misdirection and sociopathic non-sequiturs. Jeselnik adopts an arrogant, villainous persona for his standup performance.

Jeselnik attended Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana for English literature. He later decided to move to Los Angeles to be a comedian  to earn a living, where he kicked off his dark-style comedy acting.

He is also a television host, writer and producer and actor. In concert with Jimmy Fallon, he wrote the first season of the TV series Late Night. He took up the role of hosting Comedy Central Presents in 2009. And in 2010, he produced his debut comedy album and gave it the name “Shakespeare” and moved up to performer in the 2011 roast of Donald Trump. Anthony also performed on the roasts of Roseanne Barr and Charlie Sheen in 2012. In 2013, He produced another comedy album entitled “Caligula” just last year 2013. And also began hosting his own show, which he has dubbed “The Jeselnik Offensive”.

Daniel Dwight Tosh is a German-born American stand-up comedian and television host born on May 29, 1975. He is the main host of the Comedy Central televesion show Tosh 0. He is also an actor, voice actor, writer and executive producer.

Right after graduating in college, because of his passion for comedy, he immediately started touring the comedy club circuit. He appeared in Montreal as one of the "New Faces" at the 1998 Just for Laughs. And his act was televised in Montreal at the Theatre Saint-Denis in 2000.

In 2001, Daniel Tosh’s big break came for his appearance on  Late Show with David Letterman. And eventually, he became guest on shows like Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Premium Blend, Loveline, The Bob & Tom Show, Kevin and Bean, and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He also appeared on Live at Gotham, Daniel Tosh: Completely Serious, Happy Thoughts, Brickleberry and Comedy Central Presents.

Christopher Morris was born in England on 15th of June 1962. He is known for his black humour, surrealism and controversial subject matter as a satarist and writer. He is also a director, actor, voice actor, and producer. He has been hailed by the British Film Institute for his "uncompromising, moralistic drive". He is one of the more enigmatic figures in British comedy because of his tendency to avoid the media spotlight.

     

BBC Local Radio station is where Morris began his career. In the early 1990s, Morris teamed up with Armando Iannucci who is his radio producer to create a satire of new programmes titled On The Hour and which was later expanded into a television spin off, The Day Today. This program has since been hailed as one of the most important satirical shows of the 1990s. Morris further developed the satirical news format with Brass Eye focusing on themes such as crime and drugs, and which lampooned celebrities. A Brass Eye special, which dealt with the moral panic surrounding paedophilia quickly became one of the most complained about programmes in British television history. He was then described as "the most loathed man on TV" by the Daily Mail.

Morris's postmodern sketch radio show Blue Jam helped him to gain a cult following. After expanding a Blue Jam sketch into My Wrongs 8245-8249 & 117, he won a BAFTA for Best Short Film. He also created a sitcom titled as Nathan Barley in collaboration with Charlier Brooker that satirised hipsters. And he also joined the cast of the Graham Linehan sitcom The IT Crowd which was his first project that he did not have writing or producing input.

In 2010, Morris directed Four Lions, his first feature-length film which satirised Islamic terrorism through a group of inept British Pakistanis. The film has largely positive reception earning Morris his second BAFTA, for "Outstanding Debut". Since 2012, he has directed three episodes of Iannucci's political comedy Veep.

An American stand-up comedian and actress, Sarah Kate Silverman satirical comedy addresses social taboos and controversial topics such as sexism, racism and religion. She plays this role by having her comic character endorse them in an ironic fashion.

Silverman starred in and produced The Sarah Silverman Program on Comdey Central from 2007 to 2010. She has also had small appearance in many movies including School of Rock, and got leading roles in Wreck-It Ralph and Who's the Caboose?.

She then had a supporting role in Peter Farrelly and Bobby Farrelly’s 1998 comedy smash There’s Something About Mary as a friend of Mary. Silverman on Saturday Night Live as a writer and occasional performer gave a boost in her career. And since then, she has received further exposure on various TV talk shows, television series and movies.

She is in the creative team of JASH that writes and produces the content for the YouTube comedy channel. The JASH channel premiered online March 10, 2013.