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Dave Gorman

Dave Gorman is an author, documentary comedian, photographer, and humorist. He is most famous for comedy shows on stage and TV in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that, unlike in most other stage presentations, they are true stories. He is a former stand-up comedian. He hosts a BBC Radio 4 show called Genius, in which members of the public submit suggestions to make a better world. Gorman and a guest then assess the idea in order to determine whether it qualifies as "genius".

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Arj Barker

Arj Barker is San Francisco Bay Area stand up comic. He has been doing his time "in the trenches" of stand up comedy, since the early 1990's. He recently gained some real overdue fame on the HBO show, named and featuring the Flight of the Conchords, on which he plays the character of Dave. Arj has been an outspoken comic, especially on the topic of the LEGALIZATION of Marijuana! Much of his comedy has been labeled as "stoner comedy", although this is an unfair tag, as there is allot more there than "stoner" comedy...

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Arse Full of Chips

- What band on their first ever show would have have The King Blues say that they were upstaged by them?
- What band with just one gig under their belts would be talked about on The Lock Up on Radio 1?
- What band the day after their first ever show would be booked for 6 more gigs?
- What sort of band would have a member cover themselves in mustard onstage? Answer: ARSE FULL OF CHIPS For more info:
http://www.myspace.com/arsefullofchips

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Otto

There's at least four artists under the name "Otto":
1.The composer, singer and percussionist Otto was born in Pernambuco, Brazil, and he was, among Chico Science, Fred 04 and others, a Manguebeat movement creator, that was a revolution to the Brazilian music. 2. aka DJ Toto from Colombia, who has avery nice release on the net-label Corporate Identity (http://www.corpid-label.de/) 3.A Turkish hardcore band from the Istanbul underground music scene To see the German comedian-act, director (and musician too) Otto Waalkes, click here: http://www.last.fm/music/Otto+Waalkes

Read more about Otto on Last.fm.

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Richard O'Brien

Richard O'Brien (born Richard Timothy Smith on March 25, 1942 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, UK) is a writer and performer. He is best known for writing the musical The Rocky Horror Show and its 1975 film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which he played the character of Riff-Raff. The stage show has been in almost continuous production since, and the cinematic version is one of the best known and most ardently followed cult films of all time.

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Chevy Chase

Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase became a sensation as a cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night Live. He also hosted the Academy Awards twice (1987 and 1988) and briefly had his own late-night talk show, The Chevy Chase Show.

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