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Irwin Entertainment
Irwin Entertainment, Inc. is a television production company founded in 2004 by John Irwin. The Los Angeles, California based company specializes in reality, scripted, and live entertainment programming. Irwin Entertainment‘s credits include past VH1 reality series about addiction, Seasons 1-7 of ''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew'' starring Drew Pinsky, ''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Reunion Special'' (2008) and 2 seasons of ''Sober House'' (2009). Irwin Entertainment also produces ''Couples Therapy'', which 6th season aired during the Fall of 2015 on VH1. John Irwin and Irwin Entertainment also produced NBC's ''Must See TV: A Tribute to James Burrows,'' which premiered to over 5.5 million viewers on February 21, 2016. This iconic special reunited cast members from programs such as Friends, Cheers, Frasier, Will & Grace, Taxi, The Big Bang Theory, Mike & Molly, and Two and a Half Men. Irwin Entertainment produced the VH1 docu-series, ''Make or Break: The Linda Perry Project'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Irwin (producer)
John Irwin is an American television producer and entertainment executive. Career From 1993 to 1996, Irwin was a producer for ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''. From 1997 to 1999, he was a producer for ''Mad TV''. He also serves as Vice President of Development and Production for Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video for five years. Irwin was the Executive Producer for seven seasons on the VH1 series Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. From 2012 to 2015 he served as the Executive Producer of Couples Therapy for VH1. Irwin is the President of Irwin Entertainment, Inc., a film production company specializing in developing comedy, reality, scripted and live entertainment programming. Irwin founded the Los Angeles-based company in 2004, and has done projects with networks including NBC, VH1, E!, Netflix, Comedy Central, Oxygen Oxygen is the chemical element with the symbol O and atomic number 8. It is a member of the chalcogen group in the periodic table, a highly reactive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Tosh
Daniel Dwight Tosh (born May 29, 1975) is an American comedian, writer, and producer. After graduating from the University of Central Florida with a degree in Marketing, Tosh moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in comedy. His career accelerated in 2001 after a performance on the ''Late Show with David Letterman''. He would go on to appear in other national shows, leading to his own 30-minute special on Comedy Central Presents two years later. From 2009 to 2020, Tosh was the host of Comedy Central series '' Tosh.0'', a showcase of popular Internet video clips with the addition of Tosh's narrative comedic dialogue. Daniel Tosh also went on his own series of comedy tours from 2010 to 2015. In addition to ''Tosh.0'', he is known for his deliberately offensive and controversial style of black comedy and as the star of stand-up comedy tours and specials. Early life Born in Boppard, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany to American parents, Tosh grew up in Titusville, Florida, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Hardwick
Christopher Ryan Hardwick (born November 23, 1971) is an American comedian, actor, television and podcast host, writer, and producer. He hosts '' Talking Dead'', an hourlong aftershow on AMC affiliated with the network's zombie drama series '' The Walking Dead'' and '' Fear the Walking Dead'', as well as '' Talking with Chris Hardwick'', a show in which Hardwick interviews prominent pop culture figures, and ''The Wall'', a plinko-inspired gameshow on NBC. Hardwick created Nerdist Industries, operator of the Nerdist Podcast Network and home of his podcast '' The Nerdist Podcast'', which later left the network and was renamed to ''ID10T with Chris Hardwick''. His podcast has broadcast 1,000 episodes as of December 2019. Hardwick originated the role of Stacee Jaxx in '' Rock of Ages'' during its premiere run in Los Angeles (2005–2006). In 2011, he began hosting the BBC America Britcom block ''Ministry of Laughs''. From 2013 to 2017, he hosted ''@midnight with Chris Hardwick'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demetri Martin
Demetri Evan Martin ( el, Δημήτριος Ευάγγελος Μάρτιν, ''Dimitrios Evangelos Martin''; born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, writer, director, cartoonist and musician. He was a contributor on ''The Daily Show''. In stand-up, he is known for his deadpan delivery, playing his guitar for jokes, and his satirical cartoons. He starred as Ice Bear in Cartoon Network's '' We Bare Bears''. Early life Martin was born into a Greek-American family in New York City on May 25, 1973, the son of Lillian (1951–2019) and Greek Orthodox priest Dean C. Martin (1948–1994). His grandparents migrated from Sparta and Crete. He grew up in Toms River, New Jersey, and has a younger brother named Spyro and a younger sister named Christene. As a teenager, he worked at his family’s diner in Beachwood near the Jersey Shore. He attended Toms River High School North and graduated in 1991. Martin graduated from Yale University in 1995 with a B.A in History. During h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah (born 20 February 1984) is a South African-born comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and former television host. He was the host of ''The Daily Show'', an American late-night talk show and satirical news program on Comedy Central, from 2015 to 2022. Noah has won various awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award from 11 nominations. He was named one of "The 35 Most Powerful People in New York Media" by ''The Hollywood Reporter'' in 2017 and 2018. In 2018, ''Time'' magazine named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world. Born in Johannesburg, Noah began his career in South Africa in 2002. He had several hosting roles with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and was the runner-up in the fourth season of South Africa's iteration of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' in 2008. From 2010 to 2011, he hosted the late-night talk show ''Tonight with Trevor Noah'', which he created and aired on M-Net and DStv. In 2014, Noah became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patton Oswalt
Patton Peter Oswalt (born January 27, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is known as Spence Olchin in the sitcom '' The King of Queens'' (1998–2007) and for narrating the sitcom '' The Goldbergs'' (2013–present) as adult Adam F. Goldberg. After making his acting debut in the ''Seinfeld'' episode " The Couch", he has since appeared in a variety of television series, such as '' Parks and Recreation'', ''Community'', '' Two and a Half Men'', '' Drunk History'', '' Reno 911!'', ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'', '' Archer'', '' Veep'', '' Justified'', '' Kim Possible'', and ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'', portraying Principal Ralph Durbin in '' A.P. Bio'' (2018–2021) and Matthew the Raven in the TV series '' The Sandman'' (2022–present). Oswalt is also known for voicing Remy in the Pixar film '' Ratatouille'' (2007), Max in the Illumination film '' The Secret Life of Pets 2'' (2019) (replacing Louis C.K. from the first film), and M.O.D.O.K in the 2021 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Morgan
Tracy Jamal Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his television work as a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' (1996–2003) and for his role as Tracy Jordan in the sitcom ''30 Rock'' (2006–2013), each of which earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. He starred as Tray Barker in the TBS comedy ''The Last O.G.'' Early life Morgan was born on November 10, 1968 in Brooklyn and raised in Brooklyn's Marlboro Houses and Tompkins Houses in its Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood. He is the second of five children of a homemaker, Alicia (née Warden), and Jimmy Morgan, a musician who left the family when Morgan was six years old. His father named him Tracy in honor of a platoon mate and friend who shipped off to Vietnam with him and was killed in action days later. The target of bullies as a child, Morgan attended DeWitt Clinton High School. In 1985, at age 17 in his senior year, he learned that his father had contracted H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannibal Buress
Hannibal Amir Buress ( , born February 4, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper and writer. He started performing comedy in 2002 while attending Southern Illinois University. He starred on Adult Swim's '' The Eric Andre Show'' from 2012 to 2020, and was featured on Comedy Central's ''Broad City'' from 2014 to 2019. He is also known for bringing Bill Cosby’s sexual abuse of women back into the public spotlight during a stand-up routine. Early life Hannibal Amir Buress was born in Chicago, Illinois, on February 4, 1983, the son of teacher Margaret and John Buress, a Union Pacific Railroad employee. He was raised in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. He was named after Carthaginian general Hannibal, and has told stories in his stand-up act about his name causing women to turn him down because of its association with fictional cannibal Hannibal Lecter. After attending Steinmetz College Prep, he attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale for four years bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norm Macdonald
Norman Gene MacdonaldThe capitalization of Norm Macdonald's surname has been inconsistently reported in publications such as ''TV Guide''. Books that discuss him, such as ''Shales'' (2003) and Crawford' (2000), as well as other sources such as the Game Show Network and Comedy Central's '' Sports Show with Norm Macdonald'', all consistently report "Macdonald" (lowercase "d") as his surname. (October 17, 1959One of the standard references that erroneously gives his date of birth as October 17, 1963, is September 14, 2021) was a Canadian stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. His stand-up style was characterized by a slow, almost stuttering deadpan delivery and the use of folksy, old-fashioned turns of phrase. He appeared in many films and was a regular guest on late-night talk shows, where he became best known for telling shaggy dog stories. Early in his career, Macdonald's first work on television included writing for such comedies as '' Roseanne'' and '' The Dennis Miller Show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Swardson
Nicholas Roger Swardson (born October 9, 1976)Nick Swardson's biography via the '''' is an American actor, stand-up comedian, , and producer. He is best known for his recurring role as Terry Bernadino in the comedy series '' Reno 911!'', for his work with [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Rannazzisi
Stephen Rannazzisi (born July 4, 1977) is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He acted in the FXX comedy series ''The League'' as Kevin MacArthur. Personal life Rannazzisi, born in Smithtown, New York on July 4, 1977, briefly attended the Catholic St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington, New York on Long Island, leaving after a year in what he called a mutual decision. He went on to graduate from Smithtown High School in 1996. Rannazzisi graduated from State University of New York at Oneonta, where he majored in communications. He is of Italian and Irish descent. 9/11 controversy Rannazzisi lied about working in the South Tower of the World Trade Center at Merrill Lynch, on the 54th floor during the September 11 attacks, and described his experience escaping death. He had said the events inspired him to move to Los Angeles and pursue stand-up comedy. In September 2015, after being contacted by a reporter from ''The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris D'Elia
Christopher William D'Elia (born March 29, 1980) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and podcast host. He is known for playing Alex Miller on the NBC sitcom '' Whitney'', Danny Burton on the NBC sitcom ''Undateable'', Kenny on the ABC television series '' The Good Doctor'' and Henderson on the Netflix thriller series '' You''. Early life Christopher William D'Elia was born on March 29, 1980, in Montclair, New Jersey. His parents are television producer and director Bill D'Elia, and interior decorator Ellie D'Elia (née Dombroski). His father is a second-generation Italian-American, and his mother is of Polish and Italian descent. His younger brother is filmmaker/actor Matt D'Elia. When D'Elia was 12, the family relocated to Los Angeles and he attended La Cañada High School in the late 1990s. Career D'Elia started acting in high school and had some guest roles on ''Chicago Hope.'' He attended New York University and studied acting, but dropped out after a year b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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