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| x John Belushi |
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Jeff Widette |
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982) was an American comedian, actor and musician, notable for his work on Saturday Night Live, National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers. He was the older brother of Jim Belushi.
Belushi...
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| Jake Blues | ||||
| Frank Leary | ||||
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| x Dan Aykroyd |
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Beldar Conehead |
Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, CM (born July 1, 1952) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian-American comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist. He was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live, an...
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| E. Buzz Miller | ||||
| Floyd Hunger | ||||
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| x Michael McKean |
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David Ivor St. Hubbins (born 1947) is a fictional character who is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the mock rock band Spinal Tap, which was the subject of "mockumentary" film This Is Spinal Tap (1984). David is played by actor Michael McKean...
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| x Dana Carvey |
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Garth Algar |
Dana Thomas Carvey (born June 2, 1955) is an American comedian and actor, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live and the spin-off movie Wayne's World.
Carvey was born in Missoula, Montana, the son of Billie, a schoolteacher, and William...
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| George H. W. Bush (Dana Carvey) | ||||
| The Church Lady | ||||
| Derek Stevens | ||||
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| x Jane Curtin |
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Prymaat Conehead |
Jane Therese Curtin (born September 6, 1947) is an American actress and comedienne. First coming to prominence as an original cast member on Saturday Night Live in 1975, she would go on to win back-to-back Emmy Awards for Best Lead Actress in a...
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| Joan Face | ||||
| Iris de Flaminio | ||||
| Betty Widette | ||||
| Enid Loopner | ||||
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| x Mike Myers |
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Wayne Campbell |
Michael John "Mike" Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film producer. He was a long-time cast member on the NBC sketch show Saturday Night Live in the late 1980s and the early 1990s and starred as the title...
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| Middle-Aged Man | ||||
| Phillip | ||||
| Linda Richman | ||||
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| x Chris Farley |
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Matt Foley |
Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American comedian and actor. He was a member at Chicago's Second City Theatre and the cast of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. He also starred in a...
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| Todd O'Connor | ||||
| Beverly Gelfand | ||||
| Cindy Crawford | ||||
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| x Will Ferrell |
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Tom Wilkins |
John William "Will" Ferrell (pronounced /ˈfɛrəl/; born July 16, 1967) is an American comedian, actor, voice actor and writer. He first established himself as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, and has since gone on to a film career, starring in...
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| Steve Butabi | ||||
| Alex Trebek (Will Ferrell) | ||||
| Craig Buchanan | ||||
| Frank Henderson | ||||
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| x Al Franken |
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Stuart Smalley |
Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21, 1951) is an American actor, author, political commentator, and politician. He is the current United States Senator-elect from the State of Minnesota.
Franken has worked as a comedian, writer and liberal...
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| Lester Crackfield | ||||
| x David Spade |
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Dick Clark's Receptionist |
David Wayne Spade (born July 22, 1964(1964-07-22)) is an American actor, comedian and television personality who first became famous in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and from 1997 until 2003 starred as Dennis Finch on Just Shoot...
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| x Colin Quinn |
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Robert De Niro (Colin Quinn) |
Colin Quinn (born June 6, 1959) is an Irish-American comedian, best known for his five years in the cast of Saturday Night Live, and as an MTV personality in the late 1980s.
Colin Quinn was born in Brooklyn to an Irish-American family and was raised...
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| x Chris Kattan |
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Mango |
Christopher Lee "Chris" Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American actor/comedian, best known for his work on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Kattan was born in Sherman Oaks, California. His father, Kip King (né Jerome C. Kattan), is...
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| Doug Butabi | ||||
| Kyle DeMarco | ||||
| Suel Forrester | ||||
| Mr. Peepers | ||||
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| x Tim Meadows |
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Lionel Osbourne |
Timothy Meadows (born February 5, 1961) is an American actor and comedian who performed on the TV show Saturday Night Live.
Meadows was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the son of Mardell, a nurse's assistant, and Lathon Meadows, a janitor. Meadows'...
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| Leon Phelps | ||||
| O.J. Simpson (Tim Meadows) | ||||
| Jerry "Steve" Dave | ||||
| x Molly Shannon |
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Minnie Driver (Molly Shannon) |
Molly Helen Shannon (born September 16, 1964) is an American actress, comedian and writer. She is best known for her work as a cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1995-2001, and is currently starring on the NBC sitcom Kath & Kim. She is also...
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| Mary Katherine Gallagher | ||||
| Courtney Love (Molly Shannon) | ||||
| Jeannie Darcy | ||||
| Circe Nightshade | ||||
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| x Julia Sweeney |
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Pat |
Julia Sweeney (born October 10, 1959) is an American actress, comedian and author best known for her Saturday Night Live career and autobiographical solo shows.
Sweeney was born in Spokane, Washington, the daughter of Jeri, a homemaker, and Robert M...
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| x Mark McKinney |
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Lucien Callow |
Mark Douglas Brown McKinney (born June 26, 1959) is a Canadian comedian and actor, best known for his work in the long-running sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall. Following the run of their television series (1989 to 1995) and feature film ...
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| x Chris Parnell |
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Merv the Perv |
Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell (born February 5, 1967) is an American actor and comedian who was a Saturday Night Live cast member in 1998-2001 and 2002-2006. He has a recurring role as Dr. Leo Spaceman (pronounced spuh-CHE-men) on NBC's Emmy...
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| Tyler | ||||
| Shaun DeMarco | ||||
| Wayne Bloder | ||||
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| x Shia LaBeouf |
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Dirk Densten |
Shia Saide LaBeouf (pronounced /ˈʃaɪə ləˈbʌf/ "SHY-uh luh-BUFF"; born June 11, 1986) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian.
LaBeouf began his comedy career when he was 10 years old, and then launched his acting career in 1998 at the age of...
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| x Kristen Wiig |
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The Target Lady |
Kristen Carroll Wiig (pronounced /ˈwɪɡ/ "wig"; born August 22, 1973) is an American actress, comedian, and impressionist, currently appearing as a cast member of Saturday Night Live.
She is a member of The Groundlings, and also appeared in the first...
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| Penelope | ||||
| Jean | ||||
| Aunt Linda | ||||
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| x Chevy Chase |
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Land Shark |
Cornelius Crane “Chevy” Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an American Emmy Award-winning comedian, writer, and television and film actor. Born into a prominent family, Chase quickly became a key cast member in the inaugural season of Saturday Night...
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| Gerald Ford (Chevy Chase) | ||||
| x George Coe |
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George Coe is an American actor who has appeared in many films, television shows and on the stage.
He portrayed Ben Cheviot, the eventual head of Network 23, in Max Headroom (TV series). He was also an original member of the "Not Ready For Prime...
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| x Garrett Morris |
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Translator for the Hard of Hearing |
Garrett Gonzalez Morris (born February 1, 1937) is an American comedian and actor from New Orleans, Louisiana. He was part of the original cast of the sketch comedy program Saturday Night Live, appearing from 1975 to 1980.
Morris was a church-choir...
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| Chico Escuela | ||||
| x Laraine Newman |
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Sherry |
Laraine Newman (born March 2, 1952) is an American comedienne and actress.
Newman was born on March 2, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, the granddaughter of a Jewish cattle rancher from Arizona. Newman attended Beverly Hills High School in Beverly...
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| Connie Conehead | ||||
| x Michael O'Donoghue |
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Mr. Mike |
Michael O'Donoghue (January 5, 1940 - November 8, 1994) was a 20th century American writer and performer. He was known for his dark and destructive style of comedy and humor, was a major contributor to National Lampoon magazine, and was the first...
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| x Gilda Radner |
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Emily Litella |
Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award. Radner's death at 42...
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| Baba Wawa | ||||
| Roseanne Rosannadanna | ||||
| Judy Miller | ||||
| x Tom Davis |
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Tom Davis (born 13 August 1952) is a comedy writer and performer. He is an Emmy Award winner, and is best known working with partner Al Franken, as half of the comedy duo "Franken & Davis".
Davis attended The Blake School, where he built up a...
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| x Bill Murray |
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Nick The Lounge Singer |
William James "Bill" Murray (born September 21, 1950) is an American comedian and actor. He first gained national exposure on Saturday Night Live, and went on to star in films including Caddyshack, Ghostbusters, and Groundhog Day.
Murray, the fifth...
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| Todd DiLamuca | ||||
| x Don Novello |
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Father Guido Sarducci |
Don Novello (born January 1, 1943) is an American writer, film director, producer, actor, singer, and comedian. Novello is best known for his work on NBC's Saturday Night Live, from 1977 until 1980, and then 1985 until 1986, often as the character ...
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| x Jim Downey |
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James Downey (born 1952 or 1953) is an American comedy writer and occasional actor. Downey is best known as a long-time writer for Saturday Night Live.
Downey attended Harvard University, graduating in 1974 with a degree in Russian. While at Harvard...
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| x Paul Shaffer |
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Paul Allen Wood Shaffer, CM (born November 28, 1949) is a Canadian musician, actor, voice actor, author, comedian and composer. Currently, he is the bandleader and sidekick on the Late Show with David Letterman.
Paul Shaffer was raised in Fort...
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| x Tom Schiller |
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Tom Schiller is an American Emmy Award winning writer best known for his eleven-year stint writing and directing short films for Saturday Night Live. (following the shows original short film makers Albert Brooks and Gary Weis) His films, often...
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| x Alan Zweibel |
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Alan Zweibel (born May 20, 1950) is a producer and writer on such productions as Saturday Night Live, PBS' Great Performances, and It's Garry Shandling's Show.
Born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, Zweibel grew up in the New York City suburbs of...
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| x Brian Doyle-Murray |
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Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945) is an American comedian, screenwriter and actor. An alumnus of Saturday Night Live, he is the brother of Bill Murray and has acted together with him in several films, including Caddyshack, Scrooged,...
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| x Harry Shearer |
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Derek Albion Smalls (born 1941) is a fictional character played by Harry Shearer. He is the bassist for mock rock group Spinal Tap. He co-starred in the hit spoof rockumentary This is Spinal Tap with guitarists Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and...
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| x Gilbert Gottfried |
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Leo Waxman |
Gilbert Gottfried (born February 28, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian and actor whose most salient feature is a distinctively loud, rasping, grating voice. He has played numerous roles in film and television, perhaps most notably voicing the...
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| x Matthew Laurance | ||||
| x Gail Matthius | Vickie |
Gail Matthius (born December 8, 1953 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is an American actress and voice actress. She was a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live during its critical and ratings low point at the time (the 1980-1981 season headed by...
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| x Laurie Metcalf |
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Lauren Ophelia "Laurie" Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress. She is widely known for her performance as "Jackie Harris" on Roseanne. She is also a major force in Chicago theater, probably best known for her performance in the 1983...
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| x Emily Prager | ||||
| x Ann Risley |
Anna "Ann" Risley (b. September 30, 1949, Madison, Wisconsin) was a cast member of the TV series Saturday Night Live for the 12 episodes of the 1980-1981 season. These 12 broadcasts were the first episodes after producer Lorne Michaels left the show...
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| x Charles Rocket |
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Charles Rocket (August 24, 1949 – October 7, 2005) was an American film and television actor, notable for his tenure as a cast member on Saturday Night Live as well as for his appearances as the villain Nicholas Andre in the film Dumb and Dumber and...
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| x Patrick Weathers | ||||
| x Tony Rosato |
Tony Rosato (born December 26, 1954) is an Italian-Canadian actor who has appeared in television and movies in both Canada and the United States.
Rosato was born in Naples, Italy, and raised in Halifax, Ottawa, and Toronto. He planned to study...
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| x Robin Duke | Mrs. T |
Robin Duke (born March 13, 1954 in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actress and comedian. Duke is most famous for her work on the NBC comedy series Saturday Night Live although in recent years her latest venture, Women Fully Clothed, a...
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| Wendy Whiner | ||||
| Paulette Clooney | ||||
| x Tim Kazurinsky |
Tim Kazurinsky (born March 3, 1950) is an American comedian best known for performances on the NBC show Saturday Night Live. Typically his characters were mousey, sheepish types.
Kazurinsky was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Kazurinsky started out...
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| x Eddie Murphy |
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Gumby (Eddie Murphy) |
Edward Regan "Eddie" Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, comedian and singer. He is the second highest grossing actor in motion picture history. He was a regular cast member...
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| Buckwheat (Eddie Murphy) | ||||
| Mr. Robinson | ||||
| Velvet Jones | ||||
| James Brown (Eddie Murphy) | ||||
| x Joe Piscopo |
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Doug Whiner |
Joseph Charles John "Joe" Piscopo (born June 17, 1951) is an American comedian and actor best known for his work on Saturday Night Live.
Born in Passaic, New Jersey, Piscopo attended West Essex High School and was a member of the drama club "the...
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| Frank Sinatra (Joe Piscopo) | ||||
| Paulie Herman | ||||
| x Christine Ebersole |
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Christine Ebersole (born 21 February 1953) is an American actress and singer.
Ebersole was born in Winnetka, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School and went on to graduate from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois.
After...
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| x Mary Gross | Alfalfa (Mary Gross) |
Mary Gross (born March 25, 1953) is an American comedian and actress, perhaps best known for her four-year stint on Saturday Night Live from 1981 to 1985. Her credits also include minor roles on Animaniacs and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch. Gross's...
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| x Brad Hall |
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William Brad Hall (born March 21, 1958, Santa Barbara, California) is an American writer and actor, best known as a Saturday Night Live news anchor on Saturday Night News. He was also the creator of the TV series The Single Guy and Watching Ellie....
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| x Gary Kroeger |
Gary Kroeger (born April 13, 1957) is an American actor best known for his work on Saturday Night Live from 1982 to 1985.
Born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Kroeger attended Northern University High School and graduated from Northwestern University in 1981....
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| x Julia Louis-Dreyfus |
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Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an American actress and comedian best known for her roles as Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom Seinfeld and as Christine Campbell on the current CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old...
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| x Billy Crystal |
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Fernando Lamas (Billy Crystal) |
William Edward "Billy" Crystal (born March 14, 1948) is an American actor, writer, producer, comedian, and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC sitcom Soap and became a Hollywood film star during the...
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| Willie | ||||
| Joe Franklin (Billy Crystal) | ||||
| Buddy Young, Jr. | ||||
| Lew Goldman | ||||
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| x Christopher Guest |
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Nigel Tufnel (1948-) is the fictional lead guitarist of the rock band Spinal Tap featured in the 1984 mockumentary film This Is Spinal Tap. He is played by actor Christopher Guest.
Nigel's hobbies include collecting guitars; particularly noteworthy...
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| x Rich Hall |
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Rich Hall (born 10 June 1954 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American comedian and writer. He was a writer and performer on the sketch comedy TV series Fridays, Not Necessarily the News, and Saturday Night Live. He has appeared several times on the...
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| x Martin Short |
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Ed Grimley |
Martin Hayter Short, CM (born March 26, 1950) is a Canadian-American comedian, actor, writer, singer and producer. He is best known for his comedy work, particularly on the TV programs SCTV and Saturday Night Live.
Short, youngest of five children,...
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| Jackie Rogers, Jr. | ||||
| x Pamela Stephenson |
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Pamela Helen Stephenson Connolly (born December 4, 1949) is a New Zealand actress, comedian and clinical psychologist, now a resident of New York City, USA.
Stephenson was born in Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand. After attending the University of...
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| x Joan Cusack |
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Salena |
Joan Mary Cusack (born October 11, 1962) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian.
Joan Cusack was born in New York City to an Irish American Catholic family. She was raised in Evanston, Illinois. Her mother, Nancy, is a former...
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| Brooke Shields (Joan Cusack) | ||||
| x Robert Downey Jr. |
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Rudy Randolph III |
Robert John Downey, Jr. (born on April 4, 1965) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated American actor, film producer, and musician. Downey made his screen debut at the age of five when he appeared in one of his father's films, and has worked...
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| Jimmy Chance | ||||
| x Anthony Michael Hall |
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Craig Sundberg |
Michael Anthony Hall (born April 14, 1968), known professionally as Anthony Michael Hall, is an American actor, producer and director who starred in several successful teen-oriented films of the 1980s. Hall began his career in commercials and on...
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