Christopher Stuart Dangerfield is an English writer, story teller, and former stand-up comedian. His material often discusses prostitution and drug use...
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November 22, 1921 – October 5, 2004), better known by the pseudonym Rodney Dangerfield, was an American stand-up comedian, actor, screenwriter, and producer...
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include Steve Martin, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Hicks, Emo Philips, and Bill Cosby. Hardwick is a recovering alcoholic...
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sitcom Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009), which was based on his early life. From 1997 to 2000 HBO aired his talk show The Chris Rock Show. Rock was cast...
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The Strange Death of Liberal England is a book written by George Dangerfield and published in 1935. Its thesis is that the Liberal Party in the United...
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Harold Ramis (category 20th-century American male writers)
Your Sleep" and "What I Like About You". Guest stars included Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, and Dan Aykroyd. Ramis got Bill Murray to host but, because...
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Doyle-Murray, Ramis and Douglas Kenney, and starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight (his final film role), Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray with...
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the 1980 sports comedy film Caddyshack starring Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe and Bill Murray. Nashawaty's book on the...
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Lucy Fisher Andrew Gray McDonnell as Michael O'Keefe Erv Dahl as Rodney Dangerfield Paul Scheer as Paul Shaffer Lindsey Kraft as Gwyneth Cravens A photo...
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About Me, Roger in The House That Jack Built, as well as episodes of Dangerfield, People Like Us, Hardware, Love Soup, The Croydon Poisonings. Nathan...
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Studies Chris Cuthbert (born 1957), Canadian sportscaster Chris Dainty, Canadian artist and animator Chris Dangerfield (born 1972), English writer, raconteur...
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Charlie Kaufman (category 20th-century American male writers)
Scanner Darkly, a pitch for a star vehicle for Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield in which they would play a washed-up, murderous comedy duo (an idea Kaufman...
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Deceit, Doc Martin, Peak Practice, Silent Witness, Hustle, Lead Balloon, Dangerfield, a cameo in the 2005 series of The Basil Brush Show. More recently, Schaal...
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Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., Rhys Ifans, and Rodney Dangerfield with supporting roles by Allen Covert, Kevin Nealon, Jon Lovitz, Michael...
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Science with Anthony Michael Hall (1985), Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield (1986), Less than Zero with Andrew McCarthy (1987), and Johnny Be Good...
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Jim Carrey (category 20th-century Canadian male writers)
appearances in the United States, Carrey was noticed by comedian Rodney Dangerfield who signed Carrey to open his tour performances. By December 1981, a...
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1959) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, playwright and magician. He is best known for his roles as Chris Potter on the Nickelodeon sitcom Kenan...
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John Hughes (filmmaker) (category 20th-century American male writers)
Hughes began selling jokes to well-established performers such as Rodney Dangerfield and Joan Rivers. Hughes used his jokes to get an entry-level job at Needham...
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reunited Rodney Dangerfield (one of the stars of the original Caddyshack) with the director Alan Metter, who had worked with Dangerfield in the comedy film...
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Ali Siddiq (category Writers from Houston)
laundromat, and his workmates were his captive audience. He describes Rodney Dangerfield as an early influence to do stand-up, adding that "he made me see that...
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film Dragonheart. That year he appeared in an episode of the series Dangerfield and the television film All the King's Men. After graduating from RADA...
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Eddie Murphy (redirect from Myles Murphy (writer))
Gooding Jr. in Coming to America, Dave Chappelle in The Nutty Professor, and Chris Rock in Beverly Hills Cop II. Naming The Nutty Professor as his favorite...
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Jeffrey L. Gurian (category American comedy writers)
by Rodney Dangerfield, whom Gurian worked for as Dangerfield first began to gain a national profile in the United States. He met Dangerfield through his...
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Carol Leifer (category American television writers)
chronologically, are: The 8th Annual Young Comedians Show (1983) Rodney Dangerfield: Nothin' Goes Right (1987) Carol Doesn't Leifer Anymore (1988) Carol...
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Chris Rock to host the 2005 ceremony. Cates explained his decision to hire Rock for the telecast in a press release saying, "I am a huge fan of Chris...
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Jennifer Jason Leigh (category Writers from Los Angeles)
supporting role in the comedy film Easy Money (1983) alongside Rodney Dangerfield, Leigh's early film work consisted of playing fragile, damaged or neurotic...
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Louis C.K. (category 20th-century American male writers)
which was adapted from a sketch that was featured on The Chris Rock Show and featured Chris Rock in a supporting role. The film received largely negative...
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Comedy website Laughspin compared Thank You favorably with Rodney Dangerfield's darkly self-deprecating persona, as did Richard Lanoie of The Serious...
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Norm Macdonald (category 21st-century Canadian male writers)
included the comedians Bob Newhart, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Dennis Miller, and the writers Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov. Speaking about Canada's...
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Richard Pryor (category 20th-century American male writers)
Show at that time, which forced the producers to cast their British writer, Chris Langham, as the guest star for that episode instead. After his "final...
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