Global Talent Directory

Comedians Directory

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1695 comedians

Alan Carr

Alan Graham Carr hails from England and works as a comedian, broadcaster, writer and TV personality. He first attracted attention in 2001 when he took home both the City Life Best Newcomer of the Year prize and the BBC New Comedy Award. Over the next several years he built his reputation on the Manchester stand‑up scene, eventually gaining wider recognition as the co‑host of The Friday Night Project alongside Justin Lee Collins from 2006 to 2009. The partnership spawned a brief entertainment series titled Alan Carr’s Celebrity Ding Dong in 2008. Carr later fronted the acclaimed talk‑show Alan Carr: Chatty Man, which ran from 2009 until 2017.

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Ukraine

Aleksandr Revva

Александр Владимирович Ревва, более известный под сценическим именем Артур Пирожков, — российский стендап‑комик, ведущий телепрограмм и актёр озвучивания, имеющий украинские корни. Раньше выступал в КВН, а в 2006 году стал резидентом проекта «Русский Comedy Club».

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Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., an English comic actor, filmmaker, singer, film editor and composer, first achieved notoriety during the silent‑film period. He attained global fame by embodying the Tramp character and is regarded as a pivotal figure in cinema history. His professional life stretched over more than three‑quarters of a century, beginning in his Victorian‑era youth and concluding roughly a year prior to his 1977 death.

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Douglas Adams

Douglas Noël Adams, an English writer of novels, comedy and scripts, created The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as a BBC radio comedy in 1978; the concept later grew into a five‑book “trilogy” that moved more than 14 million copies during his life. He went on to turn the story into a television series in 1981, a video game in 1984, and, after his death, a feature film released in 2005.

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Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie is a British actor, comedian and musician. He first came to public attention as one half of the comedy partnership Fry and Laurie, working with Stephen Fry. During the 1980s and 1990s the pair collaborated on numerous programmes, notably the BBC sketch series A Bit of Fry & Laurie and the television adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster. From 1986 through 1989 Laurie also appeared in three series of the historical sitcom Blackadder.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese, a British actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and TV presenter, first came to public attention through the Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s. His initial break came at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and as a writer‑performer on The Frost Report between 1966 and 1967. In the latter part of the decade he helped establish Monty Python, the troupe that created the surreal sketch series Monty Python’s Flying Circus (1969‑1974). Joined by fellow Python members Graham Chapman, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, Cleese appeared in the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979) and The Meaning of Life (1983).

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France

Loris Giuliano

Born on 16 April 1994 in Montpellier, in the Hérault department, Loris Giuliano works in France as a creator of video content for the web and radio host.

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Othman

Othmane, originally from France, exercises the he trades as singer, actor, dancer and model. 2, he appears alongside Mathis Chevalier on Marc Martin's queer musical poster, Mon CRS. In this film, he plays a non-binary cabaret singer and features a pop-R&B version of Annie Cordy's track.

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Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, a British actor, writer and philanthropist, achieved global fame as a storyteller and spent much of his career appearing on television talk programmes and delivering public lectures. His honours list comprises two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmys, a Golden Globe, a Silver Bear, a Laurel Award, a Photoplay Award and a Grammy, while he earned nominations for three BAFTAs, two Tonys, two Laurence Olivier Awards and a Gemini. In 1992 the British Academy presented him with the Britannia Award.

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Sacha Baron Cohen

Sacha Noam Baron Cohen is a British actor, filmmaker, comedian and anti‑racist campaigner. He is best known for inventing and embodying the satirical figures Ali G, Borat Sagdiyev, Brüno Gehard and Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen. His work has garnered two British Academy Television Awards, three Golden Globe trophies and has earned him nominations for three Academy Awards and six Primetime Emmy Awards. Observers often label his character‑driven work as performance art.

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Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance Gilliam, born in the United States and later naturalized British, works as a director, comic performer, collage‑style animator and screen actor. Over a professional life that exceeds fifty years, he has been honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement in 2009 and has earned nominations for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.

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Tim Curry

Timothy James Curry, an English actor and vocalist, built a résumé of more than 240 screen and stage appearances across a career that stretched close to six decades. He first stepped onto the professional stage in the West End run of Hair (1968‑1969) and later became widely known for embodying Dr. Frank‑N‑Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (1973‑1975) and its 1975 cinematic version, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Curry earned three Tony Award nods for his Broadway work: as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus (1980‑1981), as Alan Swann in My Favorite Year (1992‑1993), and as King Arthur in Spamalot (2005). He was also twice nominated for an Olivier Award for his West End performances in The Pirates of Penzance (1982) and Spamalot (2006‑2007).

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