Member of the British comedy group Monty Python, Michael Palin is the inventor of the threat "If you don't cooperate, I will get nasty and start using some Dutch words". He wrote and appeared in the "Do Not Adjust Your Set" show in the 1960s with Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones and Eric Idle, before the quartet was eventually joined by John Cleese and Graham Chapman to form Monty Python. Michael is known as the nicest Python.
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...
Mononc' Serge (real name Serge Robert) is a Quebecois musician who sings in French and is best known for his extremely (often exaggeratedly) vulgar lyrics and his irreverent songs making fun of local celebrities and politicians. He is also quite sardonic with the Quebec federalist movement, and their counterparts in the rest of Canada.
He played as a bassist for the band Les Colocs until 1995, then began a solo career as Mononc' Serge.
Weebl, (real name Jonti Picking) owner of www.weebls-stuff.com, is a comedic flash animator/musician. Most of his jokes are completely random, or deal with pie in some way. Weebl created the "Weebl and Bob" series of flash animations, which consist of two egg-like objects, a large one named Weebl, and a smaller one named Bob. They talk incoherently, but this problem is fixed with speech bubbles. They have bad grammar (e.g. "You bringed back pie!").
Comedy Club is an Russian stand-up-comedy show.
Наиболее известные артисты - Павел "Снежок" Воля, Гарик Мартирасян, Гарик "Бульдог" Харламов, Тимур "Каштан" Батрутдинов, Вадик "Рембо" Галыгин, Сестры Зайцевы.
Bill Bailey is a comedian/musician/actor from the UK. His live shows are a mixture of stand-up and original comic songs. He has four albums (two studio, two live) and four live DVDs. He plays Manny Bianco in the sitcom "Black Books" and was a permanent fixture of "Never Mind the Buzzcocks" on the BBC for 11 series' until October 2008. Bill has done 4 live tours so far:- Cosmic Jam, Bewilderness, Part Troll and Tinselworm.
Neil Hamburger is the name of a stand-up comedian character played by Gregg Turkington. Hamburger's jokes range from variations of "Why did the chicken cross the road?" to Diana, Princess of Wales jokes to Paris Hilton jokes. His pacing is off, and he clears his throat nonstop through his entire routine, which is all part of the ultimate goal: to be the world's "worst" stand-up comedian. Neil's unique brand of comedy has thrilled, perplexed and repulsed audiences from the New York University Thompson Center to Jimmy Kimmel himself.
The Axis of Awesome are a trio of human men who sing funny songs. They leave men laughing and women gasping (and also laughing). Jordan Raskopoulos, a comedian, Benny Davis, a classically trained musician and Lee Naimo, an Iron Chef enthusiast, came together to form the group in 2006. Since that time they’ve wowing audiences across the world with with their mixture of quirky original songs, catchy pop-parodies and hilarious banter.
Robin Hughes Harris (August 30, 1953 – March 18, 1990) was an African-American comedian and actor, best known for his recurring comic sketch about Bébé's Kids.