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World's Funniest Fails
''World's Funniest'', formerly ''World's Funniest Fails'', is an American reality Reality is the sum or aggregate of everything in existence; everything that is not imagination, imaginary. Different Culture, cultures and Academic discipline, academic disciplines conceptualize it in various ways. Philosophical questions abo ... television series produced by Dick Clark Productions and Jukin Media which made its debut on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox on January 16, 2015. Hosted by Terry Crews, the funny videos show was inspired by the Jukin-owned YouTube channel FailArmy, in addition to Jukin's other properties. A panel of comedians views and analyzes the videos, which are divided into categories. In the first season each panel member selected a favorite in each category. Crews chooses a video in each category and decides on the "Fail of the Week" at the end. The panel member who picked the "Fail of the Week" receives the trophy. The show states in a disclaimer that viewer su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry Crews
Terry Alan Crews (born July 30, 1968) is an American actor, television host, and former professional American football, football player. He played Julius Rock in the UPN/The CW Television Network, CW sitcom ''Everybody Hates Chris'', which aired from 2005 to 2009, and portrayed Terry Jeffords in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox and NBC sitcom ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' (2013–2021). Crews starred in the Black Entertainment Television, BET reality series ''The Family Crews'' (2010–2011), and hosted the U.S. version of the game show ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (American game show), Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' from 2014 to 2015. He has appeared in films, including ''Friday After Next'' (2002), ''White Chicks'' (2004), ''Idiocracy'' (2006), ''Blended (film), Blended'' (2014), The Expendables (franchise), ''The Expendables'' film series (2010–2014), and ''Rumble (2021 film), Rumble'' (2021). Crews began hosting ''America's Got Talent'' in 2019, following his involvement in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jen Kirkman
Jennifer Ann Kirkman (born August 28, 1974) is an American stand-up comedian and screenwriter, podcaster, and actress. She is known for her regular appearances as a round-table panelist on ''Chelsea Lately'' for 70 episodes from 2008 to 2014. Jen Kirkman was also a guest on ''@midnight'', as well as for her appearances on the Funny or Die sketch series ''Drunk History'', and its continuation television series on Comedy Central. Her first three comedy albums released are ''Self Help'' (2006), ''Hail to the Freaks'' (2011) and ''I'm Gonna Die Alone (And I Feel Fine)'' (2016), the latter also serving as her debut stand-up feature for Netflix. Her second stand-up feature, ''Just Keep Livin'?'', premiered in January 2017 and was released as an album in November 2018. Her debut book, ''I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales From a Happy Life Without Kids'', was published in April 2013, and became a ''New York Times'' bestseller. Early life Kirkman was born in Needham, Massachusett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arden Myrin
Arden Myrin () is an American actress and comedian. Myrin was a cast member on the Netflix series ''Insatiable (TV series), Insatiable'', playing the role of Regina Sinclair. She was a cast member of ''Mad TV'' for the last four seasons along with Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Ike Barinholtz, and Bobby Lee. Early life and education Myrin was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, a quiet seaside village. Her father was an accountant and her mother was a real estate agent. She has an older brother, Alarik. As a child, she staged her neighborhood plays and enjoyed seeing ''Annie (musical), Annie'' on Broadway theatre, Broadway. Myrin attended Friends Academy (Massachusetts), Friends Academy in Dartmouth, Massachusetts for her middle school years. She graduated from Middlesex School, in Concord, Massachusetts, for high school. She attended Colorado College. She is of Swedish and Norwegian heritage. Career Shortly after graduation, Myrin briefly moved to Chicago, where she becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian McCullough
Julian McCullough (born May 29, 1979) is an American actor, writer, producer, and comedian best known for his appearances on ''Love You, Mean It with Whitney Cummings'', ''Chelsea Lately'', and ''Guy Code''. Early life McCullough was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1979. He initially attended college in California before attending Rutgers University, where he majored in English. After graduating from college in 2001, McCullough moved to Brooklyn, New York where he began to pursue a career in comedy. Career Comedy In 2007, McCullough participated in the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Zodiac Killer Montreal, Quebec, Canada and appeared on an episode of the Comedy Central television series ''Live at Gotham'' hosted by Robert Schimmel. McCullough has performed at the Comedy Cellar, Carolines on Broadway, and Stand Up New York. McCullough has appeared as a guest comic on several television shows, including ''Comedy Central Presents'', '' Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loni Love
Loni Love (born July 12, 1971) is an American comedian, television host, actress, author, and former electrical engineer. While working as an electrical engineer in the early 2000s, she switched to music engineering, until later launching a career in stand-up comedy. She was the runner-up on ''Star Search'' 2003 and was named among the "''Top 10 Comics to Watch''" in both ''Variety'' and Comedy Central in 2009. She was one of the co-hosts of the syndicated daytime talk show ''The Real'', which ran from July 15, 2013, and ended on June 3, 2022. Life and career Love was born in Detroit, Michigan, and grew up in the Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects. Prior to her career as a comedian, she was an electrical engineer, an experience she talks about in many of her acts. After graduating from Cass Technical High School in 1989, she worked for a time on the General Motors assembly line putting doors on 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlasses, work which ignited her interest in electrical engineering. L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April Richardson
April Richardson (born May 1, 1979) is an American stand-up comedian. She was a round table regular on the television show ''Chelsea Lately'' and a frequent contestant on ''@midnight''. She is from Atlanta, Georgia. Early life Richardson was born in Savannah, Georgia. She spent several years in Manchester, England. She graduated from Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia in 1997. She is an alumna of Georgia State University. Stand-up comedy Richardson has performed at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, Aspen Laff Festival, Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, North Carolina Comedy Arts Festival, Boston's Women In Comedy Festival, and performs regularly in Los Angeles. She has toured with Chris Hardwick, Rob Delaney, Jimmy Pardo, Dana Gould, and Matt Braunger. Television Richardson co-hosted TruTV's '' Almost Genius'' with Chris Fairbanks. She appeared regularly on ''Chelsea Lately'', and on Fuel TV's ''The Daily Habit''. Podcasts Richardson created and ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortune Feimster
Emily Fortune Feimster (; born July 1, 1980) is an American writer, comedian, and actress. Having made her television debut on NBC's ''Last Comic Standing'' in 2010, she starred as Colette on ''The Mindy Project'' (2015–2017). In July 2019, she began hosting the hit radio show ''What a Joke with Papa and Fortune'' with Tom Papa, interviewing comedians and celebrities, the first live programming on the Sirius XM channel Netflix is a Joke. She played Heather in '' The L Word: Generation Q'', a reboot of ''The L Word''. Early life Feimster was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, to Mike and Ginger Feimster; the youngest of three, with two older brothers, Price and Jay. Fortune is her maternal great-grandmother's maiden name. Growing up in Belmont, North Carolina, she attended Belmont Central Elementary School and Belmont Junior High, subsequently graduating from South Point High School in 1998. That same year, she was presented to society at the Gastonia Debutante Ball. At Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey (comedian)
Godfrey C. Danchimah Jr. (born July 21, 1969), professionally known mononymously as Godfrey, is an American comedian, impressionist and actor who has appeared on BET, VH1, Comedy Central, and feature films, such as '' Soul Plane'', '' Original Gangstas'', '' Zoolander'', and '' Johnson Family Vacation''. He was also a spokesperson for 7 Up during the popular '7up yours' advertising campaign and a cast member on the first season of '' The It Factor'', a reality television show. Currently, he is a regular performer at the comedy club Comedy Cellar in New York. He is also known for doing the voices of Mr. Stubborn and Mr. Tall (season 2) in '' The Mr. Men Show'' and hosting the FOX game show '' Bullseye''. Godfrey also hosted his own radio show on SiriusXM until he parted ways with the show in July 2019. He now owns and hosts a podcast called 'In Godfrey We Trust' on the “ Gas Digital Network”. He is also known for collaborating with other social media stars such as Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iliza Shlesinger
Iliza Vie Shlesinger ( ; born ) is an American stand-up comedian, actress and television host. She was the 2008 winner of NBC's ''Last Comic Standing (season 6), Last Comic Standing'' and went on to host the syndicated dating show ''Excused'' from 2011 to 2013. She has hosted the TBS (American TV channel), TBS game show ''Separation Anxiety (TV series), Separation Anxiety''. In 2017, Shlesinger hosted her own late-night talk show called ''Truth & Iliza'' on Freeform (TV channel), Freeform. As of 2022, she has released six comedy specials on Netflix. Her sketch comedy show ''The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show'' premiered on Netflix in April 2020. Early life Iliza Vie Shlesinger was born on in New York City to a Jewish family. She was raised in Dallas, Texas, where her family moved when she was a baby. She attended the private Greenhill School (Addison, Texas), Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, where she studied Spanish and participated in the school's Improvisational theatre, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Gould
Dana Gould (; born August 24, 1964) is an American stand-up comic, actor, writer, and voice artist who has been featured on HBO, Showtime, and Comedy Central. He voiced the titular character in the '' Gex'' franchise, and wrote for ''The Simpsons'' between 2001 and 2007. Early life Gould was born in Hopedale, Massachusetts on August 24, 1964, the fifth of six children. He was raised Roman Catholic, and served as an altar boy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester. Career Gould began performing comedy onstage at age 17. After high school, he studied communications and theatre at Framingham State College, but after a year moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in comedy. It was there he, along with fellow comedian Alex Reid, founded the San Francisco Comedy Condo in 1986. Gould wrote and performed on '' The Ben Stiller Show''; one such sketch features Gould as Otto, Cupid's twisted brother, whose arrows convince a young man to fall madly in love with an elderly woma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Jefferies (comedian)
Geoff James Nugent (born February 1977), known professionally as Jim Jefferies, is an Australian and American comedian, actor, and writer. He created and starred in the FX (TV channel), FX sitcom ''Legit (2013 TV series), Legit'' (2013–2014) and the Comedy Central late-night show ''The Jim Jefferies Show'' (2017–2019). In 2023, Jim began hosting ''The 1% Club (Australian game show), The 1% Club''. Early life Jefferies was born Geoff James Nugent in Sydney, Australia in February 1977. His mother worked as a substitute teacher and his father was a cabinet maker and maintenance worker from Roma, Queensland. Jefferies grew up in Sydney before moving to Perth to study musical theatre and classical music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, though he left several months before graduating. He has two older brothers: Scott, an investment banker, and Daniel, an inspector in the New South Wales Police Force's Public Order and Riot Squad. Career Stand-up Jeff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Dye
Jeffrey Phillip Calvin Dye (born February 4, 1983) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. Early life Dye was born in 1983 in Seattle and raised in Kent, Washington. He attended Kentwood High School in Covington. Dye is of Spanish, French-Canadian, German and Jewish descent. Career Dye has hosted two series for MTV—''Numbnuts'' and ''Money From Strangers'' and also appeared on ''Girl Code''. He was a finalist on the sixth season of the NBC series ''Last Comic Standing'', finishing third behind Marcus and winner Iliza Shlesinger. He then performed in a 50-city tour with the other top competitors. Dye performed at the TBS Comedy Festival in Chicago and '' Comedy Central's Live At Gotham'' before starring in his own half-hour comedy special titled '' Comedy Central Presents Jeff Dye'' in 2010. As of 2011, Dye was a recurring cast member on ABC's show '' Extreme Makeover: Home Edition''. Dye was the host of ''MTV's Club New Year's Eve 2013 Live'' from Times Square. Dye ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
