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Josh Wolf (comedian)
Josh Wolf (born 1969) is an Americans, American comedian, actor, and writer. He has written for a number of sitcoms, including ''All of Us'' and ''Cuts (TV series), Cuts''. He is best known for his regular appearances on the round table of E!'s late-night talk show ''Chelsea Lately''. Wolf hosted the ''Josh Wolf Show'' in 2015. Wolf has 3 children. Career He was introduced comedy at the age of sixteen, doing an entire set about his parents' fart, gas. Having moved to Seattle, he became a spokesperson for Nintendo and interviewed Bill Gates for an internal film for Microsoft. He moved once more to Los Angeles, and was spotted while doing a one-man show at the National Comedy Theatre, HBO Workspace. He signed a two-year deal with American Broadcasting Company, ABC to develop his own television show, but it was never broadcast. He instead concentrated on writing for sitcoms such as UPN's ''All of Us'' and ''Cuts''. Wolf was a regular on the round table of E!'s late-night talk sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chelsea Lately
''Chelsea Lately'' is an American late-night comedy talk show created by Brody Stevens and hosted by comedian Chelsea Handler. The show was produced by Handler's production company (Borderline Amazing Productions), and taped its later years at Universal Studios Stage 1, in Universal City, California. It was broadcast on E!, with the first episode aired on July 16, 2007, and the 1048th, and last, on August 26, 2014. In American markets, the show aired at 11:00 p.m. Eastern and 8:00 p.m. Pacific time having been recorded at 3:30 p.m. PT, usually the same day. On November 15, 2011, it was announced that the show's run had been extended through 2014. Handler's manager, Irving Azoff, stated that Handler would leave E! when her contract expired that year, thus ending ''Chelsea Lately''. History Handler previously starred on '' The Chelsea Handler Show'', a sketch comedy show, that aired on E! in 2006. In 2007, she was approached to host her own late night talk sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The early 1980s and home computers, rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields. Microsoft is the List of the largest software companies, largest software maker, one of the Trillion-dollar company, most valuable public U.S. companies, and one of the List of most valuable brands, most valuable brands globally. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows. During the 41 years from 1980 to 2021 Microsoft released 9 versions of MS-DOS with a median frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jewish
Jews (, , ), or the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group and nation, originating from the Israelites of History of ancient Israel and Judah, ancient Israel and Judah. They also traditionally adhere to Judaism. Jewish ethnicity, religion, and community are highly interrelated, as Judaism is their ethnic religion, though it is not practiced by all ethnic Jews. Despite this, religious Jews regard Gerim, converts to Judaism as members of the Jewish nation, pursuant to the Conversion to Judaism, long-standing conversion process. The Israelites emerged from the pre-existing Canaanite peoples to establish Kingdom of Israel (Samaria), Israel and Kingdom of Judah, Judah in the Southern Levant during the Iron Age.John Day (Old Testament scholar), John Day (2005), ''In Search of Pre-Exilic Israel'', Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 47.5 [48] 'In this sense, the emergence of ancient Israel is viewed not as the cause of the demise of Canaanite culture but as its upshot'. Originally, J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CMT (U
CMT may refer to: Television * Canal Maximo Televisión, a defunct Venezuelan regional network * Castilla–La Mancha TV, a Spanish regional channel * CMT (American TV channel) * CMT (Canadian TV channel) * CMT (Australian TV channel) Science and technology * Cadmium mercury telluride * Cold metal transfer, a welding technique * Condensed matter theory, a field of physics Computing * Clustered multi-thread, AMD CPU technology * Chip-level multithreading, a Sun Microsystems technique * Composable Memory Transactions * Container managed transactions in Enterprise JavaBeans Medicine * California mastitis test * Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease of the peripheral nervous system * Chemically modified tetracyclines, a type of tetracycline antibiotics * Certified massage therapist * Combat medical technician Organizations * Confédération Mondiale du Travail (World Confederation of Labour) * Transitional Military Council (Chad) (French: ) Education and training * Conn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Mathews
Ross Mathews (born September 24, 1979) is an American television host and personality. He rose to fame as an intern and a correspondent for ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''; he was known as "Ross the Intern" on air. Mathews has appeared on ''Celebrity Fit Club'', '' The Insider'', ''Celebrity Big Brother'', and as a weekly panelist on ''Chelsea Lately''. He is a judge on ''RuPaul's Drag Race'', hosts a weekly podcast with Westwood One Studios, and assists with hosting '' The Drew Barrymore Show''. He has been a co-host on '' Live from E!'' and a correspondent on ''The Jay Leno Show''. Early life Raised in Mount Vernon, Washington, Mathews graduated from Mount Vernon High SchoolMathews in and graduated from the University of La Verne, in La Verne, California, in 2002. He majored in communications and competed in speech and debate competitions. Career Mathews began as an intern on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno''. Beginning in December 2001, he covered movie premieres, the A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy Madison Productions
Happy Madison Productions, Inc. is an American independent film and television production company founded in 1999 by Adam Sandler, which is best known for its comedy films. Happy Madison takes its name from the films ''Happy Gilmore'' and '' Billy Madison'', written by Sandler and Tim Herlihy, and distributed by Universal Pictures. In addition to various Sandler-produced films, the company has also released films produced by others, such as Steven Brill, Dennis Dugan, Frank Coraci, Fred Wolf, Tom Brady, Peter Segal, Nicholaus Goossen, and Tyler Spindel. The 1998 films '' The Waterboy'' and ''The Wedding Singer'' helped jump start Sandler's movie career and production company. He produced ''The Waterboy'' and co-wrote the script with Tim Herlihy. The film was extremely profitable, earning over $160 million in the United States alone and made Sandler a successful actor with ''The Waterboy'' becoming his second $100 million film in a year, along with ''The Wedding Singer''. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Sandler
Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American actor, comedian, producer and screenwriter. Primarily a comedic leading actor in films, List of awards and nominations received by Adam Sandler, his accolades include an Independent Spirit Awards, Independent Spirit Award, alongside nominations for three Grammy Awards, five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. In 2023, Sandler was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Sandler was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series ''Saturday Night Live'' from 1990 to 1995. He returned to ''Saturday Night Live'' as a host in 2019 earning a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He has starred in Cinema of the United States, Hollywood comedy films that cumulatively grossed over $2 billion worldwide. Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a new four-movie deal with Netflix worth ov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Central Publishing
Grand Central Publishing is a book publishing imprint of Hachette Book Group, originally established in 1970 as Warner Books when Kinney National Company acquired the New York City-based Paperback Library. When Time Warner sold their book publishing business to Hachette Livre in March 2006, the North American operations of the Time Warner Book Group were renamed Hachette Book Group, while the group's Warner Books imprint became Grand Central Publishing, named in part by the proximity of their new offices to New York's Grand Central Terminal. In addition to the Grand Central imprint itself, Grand Central Publishing has several sub-imprints including Balance, Forever/Forever Yours, Legacy Lit, and Twelve. Twelve Twelve, founded in 2006, is known for releasing only one book per month. The imprint, which is considered "boutique," has printed titles by Christopher Hitchens, Benjamin Hale, Daniel Menaker and Ben Schreckinger Ben Schreckinger (born c. 1990) is an American journa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, LLC (commonly known as Fox; stylized in all caps) is an Television in the United States, American commercial broadcasting, commercial broadcast television broadcaster, television network serving as the flagship property of Fox Corporation and operated through Fox Entertainment. Fox is based at Fox Corporation's corporate headquarters at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and it hosts additional offices at the Fox Network Center in Los Angeles and at the Fox Media Center in Tempe, Arizona. The channel was launched by News Corporation on October 9, 1986 as a competitor to the Big Three (American television), Big Three television networks, which are the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), the CBS, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), and the NBC, National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Fox went on to become the most successful attempt at a fourth television network; it was also the highest-Nielsen ratings, rated free-to-air netwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theo Vonkurnatowski
Theodor Capitani von Kurnatowski III (born March 19, 1980), known professionally as Theo Von, is an American stand-up comedian and podcaster. He hosts the ''This Past Weekend'' podcast. Early life Kurnatowski was born on March 19, 1980, in Covington, Louisiana, to Gina Capitani and Roland Theodor Achilles von Kurnatowski (1912–1996). His mother was born and raised in Wyoming, Illinois, where Theo spent part of his childhood. His father was a native of Bluefields, Nicaragua, who later settled in New Orleans. His grandfather was a Polish missionary who settled in Cabo Gracias a Dios; he is descended from the Kurnatowski szlachta, a noble family in Poland. Von describes himself as Polish-Nicaraguan. Von's father was 67 when he was born (Von rounds the age to 70 years for his comedic material); he died of cancer in 1996 when Von was 16. He grew up in Covington with his older brother and two younger sisters and was legally emancipated at 14. He grew up in circumstances he describ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Comic Standing
''Last Comic Standing'' is an American reality television talent competition show on NBC that aired from June 1, 2003, to August 9, 2010, and again in 2014 and 2015. Each season a comedian from an initially large group of hopefuls was picked as a winner. For the first seven seasons, the winner received a cash prize and a television special; for season eight in 2014, the winner won a cash prize, a talent deal with NBC, and a half-hour scripted project developed by Universal Television. Format The show varied its format season by season. For seasons 1–2 and 4–7, NBC talent scouts Ross Mark and Bob Read held open casting calls in various locations around the United States. At each casting call, Mark and Read selected comics to participate in callback auditions in front of live audiences. Mark and Read selected a predetermined number of comics from each callback, who were invited to participate in a semifinal qualifying round. The comics who advanced to the semifinal qualifyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Comic Standing 4
On May 30, 2006, competitive reality show ''Last Comic Standing'' began airing its fourth season on NBC with a two-hour special and a new host, Anthony Clark. Auditions In the opening rounds, Buck Star once again showed up to audition in each city only to be turned down repeatedly. As in season two, he was finally allowed to perform in the last city, where he didn't impress the audience and was cut. Numerous established comedians auditioned for ''Last Comic Standing'' this season. They included: * Doug Benson (''Best Week Ever'') *Marc Price (''Family Ties'') * Larry Reeb ( Bob & Tom Show) *Jimmy Pardo * Nikki Payne (Muchmusic's '' Video On Trial'' and Comedy Network's '' Buzz'') * Kyle Cease (Comedy Central Presents) * Tig Notaro (Comedy Central Presents) Some of the finalists have also appeared elsewhere: * Gabriel "Fluffy" Iglesias (''All That'', ''Comedy Central Presents'' various stand-up specials) * Bil Dwyer (''BattleBots'', '' I've Got a Secret'', ''Extreme Dodgeball'') ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
